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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1047181" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>Not a lie.  He said this in early 2009.  He said they would half the deficit in 5 years.  It was doable because cbo projections by march 2009 had the deficit topping out at $1.8 trillion so getting it down to half of that was doable.  Remember obama walked into a $1.3 trillion deficit on jan 20th.  The jobs picture continued at 800k lost a month (which adds to the deficit because of less taxes being paid and more unemployment money going out), add the auto rescue and the stimulus .  Plus you have to take into consideration all these projections allowed for the bush tax cuts to expire (they are still around).  So by the fifth year of his term, next oct 2013 we shall actually see if his projection or promise was  accurate.  But a "lie", please!!</p></blockquote><p></p>