If Obama Says Cutting The Deficit Is As Important As Jobs, Can We Cancel The Rest Of The Stimulus?

That’s presuming that Obama actually means what he says here, of course.
And he doesn’t really mean it.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Saturday that trimming budget deficits is as important as creating jobs, his top domestic priority this year, to continue the economic recovery that appears under way.
The government reported Friday the economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the final three months of 2009. It was the second consecutive quarter of growth and the fastest rate in more than six years.
“A sign of progress,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “But as we work to create jobs, it is critical that we rein in the budget deficits we’ve been accumulating for far too long.”

Obama’s problem here is that all of his job creation efforts are based on more spending. Or “investment” to use the term he used during his recent state of the union address.
“Investment” in green jobs. “Investment” in higher education subsidies. “Investment” in infrastructure. That’s all spending.
So given that Obama thinks we can spend the nation back into good economic health, how can we believe him when he says simultaneously that we must cut the deficit?