The White House is promoting the message about Cutting our deficit in half.

A new report has some big economic news you probably missed: Since 2009, we’ve cut our deficit in half — and it’s falling at its fastest rate since World War II.

Here is the graphic that they have come up with:

And now you know why the economy is in the crapper. What a misbegotten feat that Obama is hailing so proudly.

We should be keeping the deficit high until the economy recovers. What a missed opportunity to invest in building and maintaining infrastructure on the cheap while also boosting the economy and cutting the rolls of the unemployed and suffering.