Deal To Avert Government Shutdown Saves $38 Billion — Bush Tax Cut Deal Spent $150 Billion

It's very disappointing that Obama has gone along with the cuts in social services and protections pushed by the GOP, in the name of deficit reduction, when the cuts are ideological driven and provide savings that pale in contrast to the costs and increased debt created by extending the Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/09/shutdown-deal-bush-tax-cuts/