Posted on 11/07/2012 8:00:24 AM PST by tobyhill
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will deliver a statement Wednesday afternoon on the need for both Republicans and Democrats to find some agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff — a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that are scheduled for 2013.
Boehner's office said he would call on both sides to seek "common ground" to help the economy and create jobs, which in turn would help reduce the national debt.
Boehner is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Capitol. He'll speak just hours after Republicans maintained their hold on the House of Representatives.
Leaders from both parties have expressed optimism that finding cooperation on the fiscal cliff would be somewhat easier post-election. But Tuesday's vote essentially cemented in place the federal government that has wrangled over these issues for the past two year and failed to find common ground.
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Speaking of crash. I see FR is back to its old slow self. Must be the hamsters quit once they realized their savior was reelected and they'd be taken care of for free.
1. Do nothing and let the country fall off the "fiscal cliff." And each and every day, come out and say that the President and the Senate won't cooperate.
2. Just pass a bill giving Obama the authority to borrow 500 trillion dollars. Let's just get it over with and pick up the pieces later.
STFU Boehner!!! Worthless POS!
Agreed.
Let the whole thing burn to the ground and let the survivors attempt to start over and hopefully create a more viable system.
Taxes will go up for working Americans not just the rich. Could be as high (in the first year) as four to five thousand dollars for each family. This will be the middle class burden in taxes. The rich will suffer too and the net effect will be many more less jobs. A nation cannot survive on unemployment, welfare, and free zer0 phones. If our nation comes out of this mess, and that is a big if, without collapse no matter the course taken, I will come here first to proclaim I was wrong.
This bus is going over a cliff no matter what we do. The only thing we can do is to make sure it takes as many Dems with it as it can.
I know there is no fight left in me, I am tired of fighting both sides of the aisle. Let the whole dam thing crash and burn around them.
I.
Don’t.
Care.
Anymore.
Defund everything.
Problem solved.
What a bunch of gutless cowards.
If anyone here is in a blue state, county, or city... look to move ASAP. Because when that cliff happens they’ll be looking towards those who work and earn money to pay for their plans. If you’re a Republican in the New England states, then you’d be insane to stick around. Liberal economic policies coupled with liberal crime policy will leave you robbed on both ends.
I am meeting with my financial adviser next week and would appreciate any constructive suggestions you all might have. I have read everything from buying gold to buying bullets, planting gardens to finding an island somewhere to hide out on. What I am looking for is some reasonable way to preserve what I have worked a lifetime to acquire and pass on to my progeny, without having to pull out all the roots and head for the hills (although I know it may come down to that).
Indeed. They want a crash, give ‘em the crash.
It won’t help if Boner “works with the president” to “try to avert the fiscal cliff”.
The crash will happen, regardless, because the political will to do what is necessary to avoid the crash simply does not exist.
“Conductor! The train’s heading for a cliff! Should we apply the brakes?”
“That will make everyone really uncomfortable in the passenger cars. Better ask them, first.”
“They said ‘no’ to the brakes.”
“OK, full speed ahead!”
In addition, any Republican who can retire should do so immediately, any in the military should leave as fast as possible, any underwater on their mortgages should walk away, and any facing bankruptcy should go ahead and file.
We'll see how many obamaphones can be purchased then.
In some ways I wish they had the house as well so that it is all their fault and they have no room to blame-shift. If we are going down anyway, I hope it is searingly clear like a branding iron who took us there.
I liked this advice from Jonty30;
As somebody said, skills are worth more than gold. You can trade skills more easily and they are far more portable than gold or anything else.
Your wealth should be tied up in things you can use, like clothes, food, tools. Having it tied in some sort of financial arrangement, whether it be bonds or gold or whatever, is not as valuable if nobody is buying.
So is there some movement afoot about making the “T.E.A.” party groups around the country into a viable political party? The Republican party has proven to be be highly unreliable, and in fact perfidious to the extreme.
And there is no possibility of forming any kind of alliance with the other major political party in this country. That is a bridge burned long ago.
This may involve active participation in creating a new country in the “flyover country” that lies between the northeast corridor and the Left Coast. Our founding documents should include both the original Declaration of Independence with very little revision, and a slightly revised Constitution based largely on the original, but without references to any human as “three-fifths” of a person. “Life, Liberty and Property ownership” would substitute for the “Pursuit of Happiness”, which was code word for property ownership, but without declaring the ownership of “three-fifths” of another human being. The Bill of Rights would be written into the body of the Constitution, and each of the succeeding admendments would be considered on their own merits, some of which are moot, and others of which would be adopted into the text of the updated Constitution.
What a joke. If democrats could compromise we wouldn’t have this mess.
That al sounds like a good start to me.
:: a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that are scheduled for 2013. ::
No! Obamugabe’s fiscal policies are unAmerican and grid-lock should prevail. A government that funds a national economy funds itself (churns its own equity)!
Let it all come crashing down on Obamugabe’s watch; that’s an election strategy.
Well, don’t invite ANYONE from New England to help build it!
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