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Geithner: No Agreement "Without Rates Going Up"

AmyDB Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 1:26 PM
One part of me thinks that Speaker Boneless should grow a pair & let the demoncraps have their way. Let BHO & his cadre do what ever they want with every conservative, TEA Party, & even republicant rep speaking on, at the least, a weekly basis to the people who sent them to Congress to tell we the people _EXACTLY_ what is in the works. The demoncraps & progressives say they won, that they have a mandate from 'we the people' . Well then let's see this "mandate" in action
AmyDB Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 1:27 PM
The other part of me says to let the country sail off the cliff & face sequestration as it is.
Cut spending to the bone across the board, tax hikes for all across the board.
Yes this will hurt everyone, especially those who think to rely on the government for bread & circuses.
I do regret that.
It'll be painful for everyone but then doesn't BHO say we need to be fair & share everything?

You progressives bytch & moan that the "rich" don't pay enough now yet you won't clarify what being "rich" actually is. I think then that all should bear the burden.
usmcpgw Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 1:34 PM
vote PRESENT

let them REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN

let the freebies END. for that is how it ALWAYS goes.

yes it will hurt the innocent along with the takers.

but the takers will have no one but themselves to blame

let REALITY smash their koolaide induced fantasies
In one of his appearances on today's Sunday talk shows, Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made a hard stand about increasing tax rates on high income-earners and small business owners, insisting that there is to be no deal without rates rising.

In an interview with Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union, Geithner claimed that the Obama Administration proposal, which includes various spending provisions intended as economic stimulus, had "huge support in the business community" and that it would be "good for the economy."

The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the fiscal cliff projected that up...

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