I heard something all to similar from Bush43, but he managed to double the total deficit, from around five and a half billion to around 11 billion in the years 2001-2009. Bush44 is following the same trail in far too many ways. I wonder what the total deficit will be by the time Bush44 is through with us.

It looks like there are some signal notes of authentic progressivism, fiscal sanity, and even—gasp!—honest accounting in President Obama’s proposed budget(s) that stretch, more or less, from here to eternity. That certainly represents a hopeful change from business as usual.

To the barricades, mon amis! Let us defend his proposals (though they could never possibly have fulfilled all our wishes) against all comers, and fight to see them enacted, to the fullest extent possible, intact. Better half a loaf than none.

Yes, one can’t help but sense that his plans are intended for a world that no longer exists except in our perfervid imaginations, that events will inevitably intervene and force him to amend them, and that most of us are SURE we really SHOULD be doing something else. So work for both, for the tentative first steps that are feasible in the here-and-now, and for the realization of your most heartfelt dreams. I’ll let you be in my dream, if I can be in yours.

Obama would be smart to go after the cost of the Bush/Cheney wars first and then the costs of DHS and the rest of the “War on Terror”. The fact that we have not been asked to sacrifice while our children are sent to die is an act of COWARDICE.
Lets get a fair and even tax structure. and get the wealthy to pay 1/3 of their income like my peers and I faithfully do year in and year out.