Senators want the easy way out

Even as they call for reining in the record federal budget deficit of $1.6 trillion, more than one-third of the nation's 100 U.S. senators have criticized proposed spending cuts in President Obama's budget that would affect their states.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-09-spending_N.htm

You can't cut the deficit without cutting spending and / or raising taxes.

But, if you do, the economy will boom. That's what Clinton did, and we had budget surpluses and record prosperity during the Clinton years.