Guess there's no use in pretending

[TheGreatGatsby]

Are you not following the news? Dems have offered raises in taxes with no real spending cuts.

Yes, I am reading the news. There have been modest cuts offered, only about three or four hundred million. Boehner has refused to offer any tax increases for the wealthy. That's the starting point in the negotiations. Even 60% of those people who voted Republican agree with taxing the wealthy.

You cannot cut social programs until the job market picks up. Defense is about the only area where you can make significant cuts, and defense cuts will add to unemployment.

If Boehner not does offer tax increases, he will offend most of the voters in the country. If he does offer to tax the wealthy, he offends the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party who have promised to make him pay at the polls.

Boehner is between a rock and a hard place, but it's the Republicans are the ones who painted themselves into this corner. First make a mess of the economy, and then refuse to reverse course. Stupid asses.

No. Not modest cuts. Cuts that were pretend and laughable. Remember the last budget that was supposed to have cuts and they did fuzzy math to pretend that it was less than the previous budget? Dems are still playing that game. Always have been; always will be.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

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The facts can be debated all day, but the GOP will be blamed if we go over the cliff. Image is image, it is what it is. Even though Boehner has to play tough for the party crazies, surely he's aware of this.

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Anyone can see that big government is killing America. We didn't get to the fiscal cliff by having small government.