Fiscal Cliff Q&A

find out how much we really know. The test is about 2 or 3 paragraphs down in the article. Article adds nothing new, but the quiz was quite enlightening. You can just do the quiz, don't have to sign up or give email for results or anything like that. Try it, let us know how you did. I got 8 out of 12. LOL ...

I’m opposed to an automatic debt limit extension that President Obama wants. You can’t let a President have the power over raising the debt limit because it would weaken the power of Congress. The President would be able to raise the debt limit every time he felt it would be necessary without a balanced budget or spending cuts. There would be a point where the country would be unable to pay the debt back and we would be another Greece. I’m hoping The GOP sticks to their guns ab ...

I don't know, the looming fiscal cliff isn't keeping me from shopping. But sheer exhaustion might. ...

Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Irresponsibility By Josh Barro Dec 3, 2012 7:35 PM ET After the Republicans' counteroffer on the fiscal cliff today, ABC's Jake Tapper tweeted a response from a senior White House official: "if GOP doesnt agree to higher rates for top 2%, we'll go over the cliff and the American people will hold them responsible." This is a hugely irresponsible threat from President Barack Obama's administration. &nbs ...

Some Dems: drive over 'fiscal cliff,' then bargain By ANDREW TAYLOR AND CHARLES BABINGTONASSOCIATED PRESS – published Wednesday, November 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — Some Democrats are pushing an unorthodox idea for coping with the “fiscal cliff”: Let the government go over, temporarily at least, to give their party more bargaining leverage for changes later on. The idea has plenty of skeptics, and the White House regards it frostily. But it i ...

I don't know who wrote the below blog but the people behind Fixthedebt.org are listed on the link below. On the right side is where you can sign the petition. They have collected 311,203 signatures out of 400,000. So … how do we reduce the debt, encourage growth, and protect the most vulnerable better than would be achieved by going over the fiscal cliff? This is what Fix the Debt has aimed to achieve since day 1. Some would have you believe that F ...

Obama Administration sent a letter to Ryan informing him that budget would be late due to the fact that things needed to be factored in after the fiscal cliff issue was resolved. Link below. Ryan seemed all surprised today and said he didn't know when they'd receive a budget from Obama, when the letter clearly stated it was going to be late, why it was late, and that they'd get it to him asap. Also, W2s and 1099s and other forms necessary to file taxes were also del ...

(I.e., game change! :) By James Fallows "... Please print out this passage from Green's Bloomberg Businessweek article so that you can refer to it each time you read a story about Obama's showdown with the Republican forces in the House. Despite their post-election tough talk, Republican leaders have dealt themselves a lousy hand. Obama can propose a "middle-class tax cut" for the 98 percent of American households earning less than $250,000 a ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argued that additional revenue must be included in upcoming deficit reduction deals, calling the revenue secured by the "fiscal cliff" deal "significant" but "not enough." "The President had originally said he wanted $1.6 trillion in revenue," she said on "Face the Nation." "He took it down to 1.2 as a compromise in this legislation. We get $620 billion dollars, very significant, high-end tax, changing the high-end tax rate to 39.6 percent, but that ...

I am a 52 year old woman, married for 32 years, raised two wonderful successful kids who are out in the real world now. I work at home and like many of you, I got stir crazy nuts and don't make much money in this job. DH is away working a lot and when he comes home he plops himself in front of the TV or within 30 minutes or so is in the garage hanging out with friends or going out for a beer. He is always home within an hour or two and I have always granted him that "defus ...

National Fiscal Hypocrisy Week Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 11/29/10 | 4 comments | Leave a comment Robert Reich Welcome to National Fiscal Hypocrisy Week. Today (Monday), Congress takes up a measure delaying by one month a scheduled 23% cut in federal reimbursements to doctors. The cut will automatically go into effect unless Congress acts. But of course Congress will act. Doctors threaten to drop Medicare patients if their rates are cut. Congress has delayed scheduled M ...

Your policies of war and tax cuts are really working out for us now. Maybe we should just elect Warren Buffett for president next election. Raise the tax rate to 30% for incomes higher than a million dollars a year. why not? I pay 30% as an IC. If I can do it, they can. ...

by Edward Morrissey "Relentless Incompetence: Americans Are Giving Up on Obama. Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama presidency, that moment has arrived." ...

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Fiscal Cliff Q&A

There's still time! - :)

It'll take a few minutes to pass a law. They can argue until - 12:30 the night before. :) nm

12/21/2012 isn't here yet. I think that was the date to worry about. :-) no msg - backwards typist

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