We will be paying the long term debt with something like this.
All Repuboicans have to say is by ending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, Obama is getting his revenue.
Now it is Obamas turn to give up something.
Obama cannot say anything about the Bush tax cuts for the rich because 1) he supported them as both a senator and President and 2) he said they were for the rich. If he says anything different then he lied and ran for on that lie.
Avoid the cliff????
Hell, jump in the bus, throw a brick on the accelerator, and go over full speed ahead..
who or what group will get hit the hardest??
Lower income and people under 40, the ones that voted for fubo..
let them eat cake
People cannot max every credit line, continuing to commit to extravagant spending, and then when the money runs out, choose the little tweak that will allow them to expand their lifestyle. Math doesn’t work like that.
The citizens of this country have chosen the easy path, and now we are approaching the end of that path. We passed the entry gate to hell some time back.
The harder and more severe the reckoning, the better the chances are of jarring people into reality.
When the lazy bums, who trade their multiple EBT cards for pot, have to beg for a job to eat, then we will have gotten their attention. But we’ve hit critical mass, and these parasites first reaction is not going to be to seek work. They will first attempt to steal by force the last bit of the Old Republic’s wealth. Quelling these riots, or suffering the effects, may serve to convert the working-Democrats to reality.
Every American business should just shut its doors. Then we can watch Obama explain the power the Federal government to the masses.
But, I thought the fiscal cliff WAS the "offsets down the road" used to justify increasing the debt ceiling and borrowing another 1 1/2 trillion dollars a year ago.
The GOP needs a new strategy in this budget fight. You cannot negotiate with the other side until a baseline is established, which Obama and the Dems keep moving.
They should have a press conference, GOP House and Senate, and announce they will be happy to work with the other side once a baseline for negotiation is established. That baseline would be a budget passed by the Senate, which has not passed a budget in four years. Once that is done, negotiations can begin. Until then, there is nothing on the table.
That will force Obama and Reid to go on record as either supporting continued trillion dollar deficits, specific spending cuts, specific tax increases, etc. Right now there is no record.
STOP playing defense and force their hand.
We’re going to go over the cliff anyway, might as well get it over with.
We will be paying the long term debt with something like this.
Let’s be honest with ourselves:
Nothing of substance will be done about this. After a period of posturing by both sides, negotiations will effectively re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And the band played on...
Cliff doesn’t like to see his name drawn through the mud.
What the author omitted, was that spending cuts should total around $800 billion during the first year. IMO, that’s what most political folks in general are most afraid of. And Congress, in general, won’t let those cuts happen.
obama wants this country destroyed. And obviously so do a lot of others. So letting us go over the cliff is what he really wants. If he can’t have that, he’ll be happy to tax the “rich”. The end result will be the same but it’ll happen a little farther down the road.
And why are the republicans cowards? The only possible explanation is they’re in on it. There is only one party in D.C. It’s caled the “ME” party.
Send it over the cliff. Millions of new taxpayers will suddenly get interested in how much the govt spends.
