“WH website still touting pledge to halve deficit – Wash Examiner
When President Obama unveiled his budget on Monday, it became clear that he would break his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office. But the White House website is still prominently touting the promise.
When visitors to the White House website click on “Fiscal Responsibility” under the “Issues” section, they are directed to a page that includes the following:
“Cut the deficit in half by the end of the President’s first term. On January 20, 2009, the President inherited a $1.3 trillion budget deficit. The President has put forth a budget that will halve this deficit by the end of his first term, bring non-defense discretionary spending to its lowest level as a share of GDP since 1962. ”
“Looks like the White House website could use some updating.”
OR maybe a website czar
One week after this story was originally broken by the Pundit Pete Press Service (and picked up from a tip 3 days later by Washington Examiner)the promise to “cut the deficit in half” is still up on WH web site. How dumb is that?
See original story at:
http://punditpete.blogspot.com/2012/02/cut-deficit-in-half-still-goal-for-new.html