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Senate Passes Bill to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

JacobsTrouble Wrote: Jan 01, 2013 10:06 AM
I think we now have more parasites than hosts. How will it end? Greece comes to mind.
capitalust Wrote: Jan 01, 2013 10:16 AM
Greece has big brother EU to bail them out. Nobody gonna bail out the U.S. - nobody can. The total liability is $122 Trillion. There is only a total of $125 Trillion of wealth in the entire world. The U.S. is officially insolvent (you may be more familiar with the common term, BANKRUPT). Now let's see how we can rearrange deck chairs on the SS America as it crashes into the largest iceberg ever seen.

The Senate voted early Tuesday morning 89-8 in favor of the scaled-down bipartisan package that would halt historic tax hikes for many Americans and postpone automatic spending cuts for two months. The bill will now go to the House, which is expected to be back in session at noon today.

The outlines of the deal Mr. McConnell and Mr. Biden worked out included raising tax rates for individuals making more than $400,000 and families with incomes more than $450,000, and extended unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless. It also continued a number of programs from Mr. Obama’s...

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