The Republican National Committee has a question for White House Press Secretary Jay Carney:

.@PressSec whatever happened to cutting the deficit in half by end of first term? was that plan typed on a typewriter too?
— @RNCResearch via web
Well, since you asked, here's what's happened:
Since 2009 when President Obama set the goal identified by the RNC, the deficit has fallen by roughly half a percentage of GDP and nearly half in absolute terms. The data is
here and
here.
Now, here's a question for the RNC: Whatever happened to what your politicians said about making jobs a priority?