Americans Increasingly Skeptical of Obama's Pledge of Fiscal Discipline as Deficit Grows

Among his many promises upon taking office, President Obama's goal of cutting the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term is perhaps his loftiest.

Yet with each spending proposal Obama rolls out, the deficit grows astronomically and the American people are growing more concerned.

The president's health care reform plan alone, without an agreement on how to pay for it, would pile on more than $1 trillion over the next decade to the already enormous 2009 deficit which is estimated at $1.8 trillion. But Obama is adamant that his plan must be "deficit neutral"...