"What amazes me, in the U.S., is how Obama ran on an austerity platform his first time around."

It should amaze you. It never happened.


" Obama, was the first president to put entitlements on the table in fiscal negotiations. He has begun the carving up of Social Security and Medicaire."

He is the third or fourth who wanted to trim the programs. W want to to it to "save" the programs.