Why should Obama compromise?
He holds all the cards
If he does nothing the Bush tax cuts expire and we get automatic spending cuts across the board. More revenue in and less money spent...that is how you balance a budget
Obama has already offered a tax compromise to save tax cuts for the middle class
If Republicans want to save some of their cherished programs, they had better be prepared to compromise
Both of which (the automatic cuts and the tax increase) will send the entire economy over the fiscal cliff and straight to total collapse (just like Greece).
But, I say, HELL YES!!! Let's collapse this thing and watch the faces of the idiot liberal dumbocrats who worshipped Obama, kept handing over power to the federal government, and supported spending more than what you have.
Let's burn this entire bitch to the ground. If we're not going to adhere to the Constitution as we are legally bound to (but don't thanks to the idiot liberal dumbocrat), then lets have our second Civil War and get it over with. We'll rebuild it again (and I'm sure the perpetual stupidity of the idiot liberal dumbocrat will burn it back to the ground again in another 100+ years). As Thomas Jefferson so astutely recoginized, "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". Let the blood start spilling...
You are mixing your metaphores
Greece went bankrupt because taxes were too low and benefits were too high. How does increasing our tax revenue and cutting spending make us....."Like Greece"?
You want to spill blood over a 4% tax increase and 10% spending cut? What a pussy
Greece went bankrupt because benefits were too high - just like here in the U.S. now. Because people want the government to take care of them, which is NOT the fucking job of the government.