The Dilemma of our President

Yes, "balancing the budget" without getting out of war, means we have to take it out of the poor, the elders(like me), the sick and our schools. There is where the simplistic thinking of the tea party is toxic - very mean spirited and sick! Have you ever seen the budget pie I have published several times? Most of our money goes to the pentagon - relatively small slices to the health, education and welfare of our whole country! Rants like this is why "citizens vote against their self-interests." Barack is caught in a catch-22 - he is trying to get out but hawks even try to block his efforts to decrease troops, and then we have the moral quandary to staying to help repair the mess we helped make...don't blame Obama - Bush is still to blame for getting into both wars and then borrowing money to conduct them!