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<p>Captured from BarackObama.com &#8211; June 13, 2009 &#8211; before it was removed.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em><strong>Barack Obama will restore fiscal discipline to Washington:</strong><br />
Obama and Biden review the federal budget line by line and eliminate programs that don’t work or are unnecessary.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>The Problem<br />
Increasing Debt: Under President Bush, the federal debt has increased from $5.7 trillion to $8.8 trillion, an increase of more than 50 percent.</em></p>
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<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Barack Obama and Joe Biden&#8217;s Plan</em><br />
<em>Restore Fiscal Discipline to Washington<br />
*Reinstate PAYGO Rules: Obama and Biden believe that a critical step in restoring fiscal discipline is enforcing pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) </em><em><strong>budgeting rules which require new spending commitments or tax changes to be paid for by cuts to other programs or new revenue.</strong></em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Barack Obama and Joe Biden&#8217;s Record<br />
* PAYGO: Obama voted in 2005, 2006, and 2007 to reinstate pay-as-you-go federal budget rules.<br />
* Against Raising the Federal Debt Limit: In 2006, Obama voted against misguided Republican efforts to raise the statutory debt limit at the same time the Republicans were pushing through massive debt-financed tax cuts for the wealthy.</em></p>
<p>So how did he do with those promises?</p>
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<p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/national-debt-obama.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/national-debt-obama.html</a></p>
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