(Reuters) - The "fiscal cliff" deadline is days away and the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama have left town for Christmas.
But even if they were still here, it wouldn't have mattered, according to Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. He says they were going nowhere to resolving the disagreement over how to fix the nation's fiscal problems.
Last month's dreams of a "grand bargain" of tax hikes and spending cuts seem long gone. They had been reduced to more modest bargains in mid-December, and as 2013 approaches, are on the verge of relegation to a "stop-gap measure," at best the sort of temporary fix that Congress undertook in 2011.
After a nice long holiday weekend, President Obama and members of Congress suddenly remembered that they never took care of that fiscal cliff thing that happens in just six days. The President will end his holiday vacation early, leaving his family behind in Hawaii and heading to Washington on Wednesday night in order to resume work on budget negotiations. Congress will also return to work on Thursday, giving the two sides just five days (including two weekend days and New Year's Eve) to strike a deal before taxes go up on everyone in America—among other economic disasters.
This is unprofessional, non-caring and absolutely reckless....and that from the executive body. Imagine a private sector operating like this? How many years now we haven't had a balanced budget? This is the equivalent of running-down a cake shop.
The republicans wants to balance the budjet on the backs of the vunerable like cutting social security and medicaid , leaving their sacred cows like the military and the bush tax cuts for the wealthy untouched
[quote author=Kwami link=topic=76056.msg468070#msg468070 date=1356544927]
The republicans wants to balance the budjet on the backs of the vunerable like cutting social security and medicaid , leaving their sacred cows like the military and the bush tax cuts for the wealthy untouched
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So let me ask you...the US military is the Repubs? And the wealthy are all Repubs?
[quote author=Kwami link=topic=76056.msg468082#msg468082 date=1356545907]
The military industrial complex supports the republican party , those are the interests that the republicans protects
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I like the dance...but please expound.
[quote author=SCA link=topic=76056.msg468121#msg468121 date=1356548746]
I like the dance...but please expound.
[/quote] no need mate cause it would get us nowhere .. politics that is ::lol::
[quote author=Kwami link=topic=76056.msg468128#msg468128 date=1356549231]
no need mate cause it would get us nowhere .. politics that is ::lol::
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Cool dude...just checking.
