A Matter Of Balance

During a recent press conference President Bush kept saying he would cut the budget in half over the next four years. He even went as far as to say that the current budget is $427 billion. Normally it would be quite impressive that our nation's leader has such a command of the numbers except for one slight problem: The actual budget is 2.43 trillion (yes, with a "t") dollars. It's the deficit which is $427 billion. A single slip of the tongue would be excusable, but the President made the same mistake four times.

Well, maybe in 2008 the we can elect someone who has a reasonable grasp of the the English language.