SOUTH DAKOTA STRAIGHT TALK

President Obama held his first cabinet meeting yesterday. The purpose of the meeting was to demonstrate his commitment to fiscal responsibility.

At the meeting he asked his Cabinet Secretaries to go through their budgets line by line and cut $100 million collectively from their budgets.

Remember that candidate Obama promised in his nomination acceptance speech last August in Denver to put our federal government on a pay as you go basis. Those were his words. This is the same President who has passed a special appropriation of the stimulus package without paying for it of $800 plus Billion dollars; and has proposed a federal budget that has a $1.6 trillion deficit.

Now he wants us to believe that he is fiscally responsible looking for $100 million. The USA Today reports this is like cutting spending by $3 on a budget of $100,000.

What a Joke!