A hundred billion there…being wasted on “education.”

But it’s OK, because he’s going to ask the cabinet to find a hundred million dollars in cuts.

It reminds me of this point in Geraghty’s piece yesterday:

When Obama announced a paltry $100 million in budget cuts, and insisted this was part of a budget-trimming process that would add up to “real money,” he clearly understood that the public processes these numbers very differently from the way budget wonks do. Alinsky wrote: “The moment one gets into the area of $25 million and above, let alone a billion, the listener is completely out of touch, no longer really interested, because the figures have gone above his experience and almost are meaningless. Millions of Americans do not know how many million dollars make up a billion.”

It’s right out of the playbook.