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Posted on 11/19/2011 11:36:11 AM PST by Rufus2007
Although many hope that members of the super committee will still reach an 11th hour deal on spending cuts before the November 23 deadline, New York Times columnist David Brooks doubts that any deal will ever be reached, now or in the future. Brooks suspects that United States is headed toward a fiscal crisis much like that of Greece. On Friday night’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” Brooks said that despite the best possible groundwork being laid to reach a deal, a deal still couldn’t be made. “Yes, I mean, I’m hearing the exact same thing,” Brooks said. “I think the tragedy of it is, if it was ever going to work, it was going to work under these circumstances. The rules were rigged to make a deal as possible as possible as possible, which is to say there was going to be a clean vote on the House. They were going to meet in private. They had this sword of Damocles hanging over them. And they still couldn’t reach a deal.”
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The simple truth is that the productive people in this country can no longer afford the many and vast layers of government or the services government provides. Once those services are cut and they will have to be cut. All hell breaks out. Better prepare fast cause the stuff and the fan are in close proximity.
Well, if one is getting screwed, a little grease can keep it from being so painful and...
Oh? How’d that??
Ohhh, THAT Greece!
never mind.
Anyone with half a brain could have predicted the failure of the Super Committee. Both sides will not move from their positions enough to make a dent in the financial situation.
Rino or not, B rooks is right on this one. No deal. And they will finesse over the projected auto-cuts somehow.
It will prove for once and all that the politicians can’t do this job. And if not our elected officials, who will?
I hate the GOP. They agree to asinine deals from the Democrats that any Freeper will tell you is doomed to fail, then whine when it fails.
We need street fighters. I am tired of capitulation.
All the GOP House had to do was to hold the debt ceiling hostage to immediate deep spending cuts. That’s it. That’s all they had to do. They gave it away.
No, I think we will be a lot worse than Greece ever dreamed of being. The violence could get really, really ugly.
I totally agree with you. When the economy finally collapses and the American People see the dollars in their wallets worth nothing, their retirements wiped out, gas at $20+ a gallon, groceries literally too expensive to purchase or unavailable, their houses worth nothing and yet they are unable to make payments, unemployment rocketing ever higher, our troops still on expanding foreign fields while illegals overwhelm our system and terrorists begin to strike us at home (and they will), while the politicians remain in their estates with their perks, their pleasures and their possessions safe from the turmoil in “flyover country” — you’re right, it will get VERY ugly. The people will march on Washington, District of Corruption as never before.
I could not have put it any better than that. Well thought out. I wonder if I can escape to the Philippines. My mother in law owns rice fields. Who knows if it would be better?
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