Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill - NYTimes.com

So the President is not going to use the "gimmicks" that the so called conservative Republican President and congress used. Just another nail in that coffin called Bush legacy. Actually every Bush budget was a lie. Just a flat out lie... but then that is what Republicans do best.



Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill - NYTimes.com: "Yet Mr. Obama will inflate his challenge by forsaking several gimmicks that President Bush used to make deficits look smaller. He will include war costs in the budget; Mr. Bush did not, and instead sought supplemental money from Congress each year. Mr. Obama also will not count savings from laws that establish lower Medicare payments for doctors and expand the alternative minimum tax to hit more taxpayers — both of which Mr. Bush and Congress routinely took credit for, while knowing they would later waive the laws to raise doctors’ payments and limit the reach of the tax."