Maybe I'm just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Obama just signed the $871 billion stimulus package into law, essentially giving us a $1.2 billion annual budgetary deficit without even considering an actual budget yet.
But today, he brings together a "Fiscal Summit" meeting and
Um, how can he do that with the MASSIVE amounts of new spending he just signed into law, that he insisted on getting out the door? 
Seriously, I don't get this concept because the two ideas (massive stimulus and decreasing the budgetary deficit) don't jive together in my brain. If someone can actually explain this, I would really appreciate it, because to my mind it seems like he's asking us to forget the stimulus since it happened last week, and this week we're talking about the budget. 
Oh yeah, and he also seems to think that getting all these people together and having them go into "breakout groups" can solve the economic problems of the country in 3 hours. We've recognized that there are problems with Social Security and Medicare, etc. and the budgetary deficit for years now, decades on some counts, but he can solve it in 3 hours by multiple committees? Wow, if he can do that, he must be a Messiah! (That said by someone who has been on multiple committees, and knows firsthand how ineffective they are!)
Obama just signed the $871 billion stimulus package into law, essentially giving us a $1.2 billion annual budgetary deficit without even considering an actual budget yet.
But today, he brings together a "Fiscal Summit" meeting and
Quote:
| Obama declared at the top of the meeting Monday afternoon that he will cut the country's budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. |
Seriously, I don't get this concept because the two ideas (massive stimulus and decreasing the budgetary deficit) don't jive together in my brain. If someone can actually explain this, I would really appreciate it, because to my mind it seems like he's asking us to forget the stimulus since it happened last week, and this week we're talking about the budget. Oh yeah, and he also seems to think that getting all these people together and having them go into "breakout groups" can solve the economic problems of the country in 3 hours. We've recognized that there are problems with Social Security and Medicare, etc. and the budgetary deficit for years now, decades on some counts, but he can solve it in 3 hours by multiple committees? Wow, if he can do that, he must be a Messiah! (That said by someone who has been on multiple committees, and knows firsthand how ineffective they are!)
If Laurie can't get through the rhetoric to make sense of what he's talking about, then he's doing a lot of double-speak, I think. 
