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Posted: 12/31/2012 9:56:41 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations with Capitol Hill on the looming fiscal cliff in front of middle class Americans while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/31/2012 9:56:41 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations with Capitol Hill on the looming fiscal cliff in front of middle class Americans while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/31/2012 2:33:37 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations with Capitol Hill on the looming fiscal cliff in front of middle class Americans while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/31/2012 2:33:37 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations with Capitol Hill on the looming fiscal cliff in front of middle class Americans while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/31/2012 2:33:37 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations with Capitol Hill on the looming fiscal cliff in front of middle class Americans while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/16/2012 11:28:32 AM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, fog obscures the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. Big tax increases will hit millions of families and businesses a lot sooner than many realize if Congress and the White House don't agree on a plan to avoid the year-end fiscal cliff of automatic tax increases and government spending cuts. In fact, they already have. More than 70 tax breaks enjoyed by individuals and businesses already expired at the beginning of this year. If Congress doesn't extend them, a typical middle class family could get a $4,000 tax hike when they file their 2012 returns next spring, according to a private analysis. At the same time, businesses could lose dozens of tax breaks they have enjoyed for years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 12/15/2012 2:58:27 PM EST
FILE - in this Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 file photo Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during statements at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's general election. After years of public frustration with failed peace efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's badly divided challengers are trying instead to tap the economic frustrations of the middle class and a widespread resentment of perks enjoyed by fervently devout Jews.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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Posted: 12/15/2012 2:58:27 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, smoke rises during an explosion from an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City. Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's general election. After years of public frustration with failed peace efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's badly divided challengers are trying instead to tap the economic frustrations of the middle class and a widespread resentment of perks enjoyed by fervently devout Jews.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
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Posted: 12/15/2012 2:58:27 PM EST
FILE - in this Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, Israelis inspect damage at an apartment building after it was hit by a rocket fired by militants from Gaza Strip, in the israeli central city of Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv. Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's general election. After years of public frustration with failed peace efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's badly divided challengers are trying instead to tap the economic frustrations of the middle class and a widespread resentment of perks enjoyed by fervently devout Jews. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
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Posted: 12/11/2012 6:51:59 AM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/11/2012 6:51:59 AM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/10/2012 4:27:41 PM EST
Passengers watch a China Southern Airlines plane take off as they wait to board their plane at Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport in this April 16, 2012 file photo. In China, angry passengers are resorting to extreme measures to protest delays as the country's restricted air corridors are becoming clogged with millions of new fliers each year -- a fact attributed to the fast rise of the middle class and cheap flights. There have been dozens of incidents involving irate travellers on both domestic and international flights this year, as airlines struggle to stick to their schedules. REUTERS/David Gray/Files
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Posted: 12/10/2012 4:27:41 PM EST
A man walks past an information board for flight status at Shanghai Pudong International airport in this May 2, 2009 file photo. In China, angry passengers are resorting to extreme measures to protest delays as the country's restricted air corridors are becoming clogged with millions of new fliers each year -- a fact attributed to the fast rise of the middle class and cheap flights. There have been dozens of incidents involving irate travellers on both domestic and international flights this year, as airlines struggle to stick to their schedules. REUTERS/Aly Song/Files
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Posted: 12/9/2012 5:34:08 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/9/2012 5:18:39 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/9/2012 4:51:50 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/7/2012 4:45:52 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/7/2012 4:45:52 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while visiting middle class family members in their home to discuss his Administration's push to cut taxes for 98% of Americans in Falls Church in Fairfax County, Virginia, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Posted: 12/7/2012 4:18:39 PM EST
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media after eating lunch with middle class tax-payers including, from left, Anne Marie Munos of Falls Church, Va., Mossi Tull, of Washington, and David Waugh, of Bethesda, Md., Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Metro 29 diner in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 12/7/2012 4:18:39 PM EST
Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks to the media after eating lunch with middle class tax-payers including Fernando Garavito, of North Potomac, Md., left, Anne Marie Munos, of Falls Church, Va., Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Metro 29 diner in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
