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2016 Postmortem

customerserviceguy

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3. I'm with you on the taxes

Reply to high density (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 04:00 PM

Dec 2012

And I think we can survive the sequester, some domestic budget cuts will be worth the first really meaningful cuts in military spending since the end of the Vietnam War.

What do we do about the long term unemployed, and the doc fix, though? Also, we're coming up to the debt ceiling, that is the ultimate threat to our economy that the knuckle-draggers can carry out.

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The Fiscal Cliff looks to me like one 3-D Chess game that Obama is winnning! [View all] hedgehog Nov 2012 OP

It's not over yet. customerserviceguy Nov 2012 #1

If that happens? We survived these pre-Bush tax rates and higher for many decades in this country high density Nov 2012 #2

I'm with you on the taxes customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #3

That would suck. But it's not in their interest to do that democrattotheend Dec 2012 #6

Repukes do OK when Obama is on the ballot customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #8

To me this is very interesting. And how many days will congress stay in Filibuster Harry Dec 2012 #4

Let's not forget why this traditional budget battle has been so dramatically labeled Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #5

Finally, Obama's using some proper hardball negotiating strategy. backscatter712 Dec 2012 #7