The Hill News

As President Obama addresses the nation this week in a speech on deficit reduction, just what are Americans to think? For starters, he created his own debt commission, and when its members released their recommendations in December, he chose to do nothing with them. In his State of the Union address in January, Obama chose to emphasize "investments" in education and infrastructure rather than pressing for meaningful deficit reduction. His budget, released in February, confirmed that tackling our fiscal crisis was a job either for another day or for Republicans.

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