Originally Posted by kane

All he did was throw the first log on what will erupt into a pretty good size fire next week. It seems Obama claims to want to cut the deficit and spending by cutting parts out of many different areas of government while returning the tax rate on the top 2% back to 39% from the 36% it is now.

Meanwhile the republicans want to cut the deficit/spending by gutting social security, many social entitlement programs and turning Medicare into a voucher system.

Both sites hate the other's plan and neither as they sit has a change of passing.