Do you think that cliff is a cause or an effect?yeah he really cares about the American economy ..... the facts are he does not !! on vacation while our economy is on the verge of tanking !! i'm sure the leftist will defend his need for 21 days off !!
This is the opinion of a former Reagan Administration Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor for the Wall Street Journal (Op-Ed) page:
"Is the 'fiscal cliff' real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being used.
"The fiscal cliff is the result of the inability to close the federal budget deficit.
"The budget deficit cannot be closed because large numbers of US middle class jobs and the GDP and tax base associated with them have been moved offshore, thus reducing federal revenues.
"The fiscal cliff cannot be closed because of the unfunded liabilities of eleven years of US-initiated wars against a half dozen Muslim countrieswars that have benefitted only the profits of the military/security complex and the territorial ambitions of Israel.
"The budget deficit cannot be closed, because economic policy is focused only on saving banks that wrongful financial deregulation allowed to speculate, to merge, and to become too big to fail, thus requiring public subsidies that vastly dwarf the totality of US welfare spending."
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