let's see if we can simplify this for you, Zap.......if you have twenty gallons of water in a bathtub and you take a gallon out leaving nineteen, you have reduced the amount of water in the bathtub by one gallon........if you had planned on adding a gallon of water in a bathtub and don't, there are still twenty gallons of water in the bathtub and you haven't reduced the amount of water in it......the one trillion he had planned to add to the deficit but didn't, did not cut the deficit.......it actually went UP over half a trillion, an increase.....does that clear things up for you?.......