Friday’s not-so-funny Funny, comes to us courtesy the White House’s own website. Under ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ the site says President Obama would:

“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.”

Hmmm. If it were cut in half in this, the final year of his first term, the deficit would be $650 billion. Instead, the budget Obama put out this week would result in a $1.3 trillion deficit.

WTF, Mr. President? Where is that hope and change?

Screenshot of the White House website saying President Obama would "Cut the deficit in half by the end of the President’s first term."

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