“I was just out digging in the garden with Michelle, and all of a sudden my shovel hits something hard…”

President Obama found $313 billion!

President Barack Obama says he’s now found savings that will pay almost all the costs of a massive overhaul of America’s health care system.

Obama on Saturday is announcing an additional $313 billion in new proposed savings that he says would bring the total funding available for his top-priority health insurance reform to nearly $950 billion over 10 years.

How do you just “find” $313 billion? And if it was there to be “found,” what was it there for? Surely it wasn’t just hidden in a mattress?

Although I guess I’d rather D.C. was just hiding the money in mattresses. It’s less irresponsible than what they’re really doing.

Note to President Obama: “cutting” the money out of the “stimulus” package doesn’t count.