Interesting ….It seems as if even Obama, the purveyor of Hope & Change has finally sobered up a bit and realized his plans to submerge the U.S. in MORE massive national debt with new social engineering programs are indefensible and harmful to the nation. We can only wait and see whether this is for real or just a political move to save his Presidency… The president detailed some of the spending cuts with which he hopes to curtail the federal deficit and urged Republican and Democratic lawmakers to do the same. "The bottom line is this: We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences, as if waste doesn't matter, as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money, as if we can ignore this challenge for another generation. We can't," the president said. The History of Our $1.6 Trillion Deficit - ABC News