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Republicans WILL cave on the tax increases because they 'don't want to look bad' by 'protecting the rich'. Only a newspaper 'reporter' could think that 6 parts out of 3800 qualifies as 'slashing'. That would be a discount of $31.57 on a car purchase of $20,000. Do these people have NO perspective? Oh wait, they went to public school. NOW I get it.
Sigh. I feel like a modern-day Sisyphus. Except I’m not pushing a rock up a hill, only to then watch it roll back down.
I have a far more frustrating job. I have to read the same nonsense day after day about “deep spending cuts” even though I keep explaining to journalists that a sequester merely means that spending climbs by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather than $2.5 trillion.
The latest example comes from the New York Times, which just reported about “deep automatic spending cuts that will...
The public schools today are only interested in teaching kids how to get free fish; not how to fish.