[Darteaus94025]

"For our government, the only thing scarier than millions on unemployment, is millions losing their benefit without finding jobs."

I'd add, "...during an Presidential election year." There is NO WAY that this President will not SPEND billions more to extend unemployment benefits during 2012 to improve his re-election probability. Next year's deficit is going to be through the roof.

[TheBattman]

and who cares how much they decide to spend (has it been long enough to forget the budget “crisis” we supposedly saw this year?) - Oh, right - they don’t care about how much they spend - they will just take it out of the Defense budget...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Next year's deficit is going to be through the roof.

Damned straight. This Soooooper Committee is a complete joke. They are just trying to time it so the failure happens over the holidays when nobody is paying attention.