Nobody Believes In Obama's "Spending Freeze"

During his SOTU speech, PresBo touted the "spending freeze" that he had floated a day or two previously. Personally, I think it's far too limited to do any good... defense and entitlement programs are exempted and growth in those areas of the budget will far eclipse the "savings" from the "spending freeze."

But that's MY opinion. What do the American people think? Apparently, 91% agree with me.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/january_2010/9_expect_obama_s_spending_freeze_to_have_big_impact_on_deficit

One of the key new initiatives in President Obama’s State of the Union speech is a three-year freeze on discretionary government spending, but voters overwhelmingly believe the freeze will have little or no impact on the federal deficit.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just nine percent (9%) think the freeze will reduce the deficit a lot.

Eighty-one percent (81%) disagree, including 42% who say it will have no impact. Another 39% say the freeze in nearly all areas except defense, national security, veterans affairs and entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will reduce the deficit a little.

Just as long as people don't start believing the myth that the President actually did something that would result in a smaller budget next year.

And this plan wouldn't.