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RKP5637

(67,112 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:16 PM Dec 2012

DU POLL: Sometimes it's better to go over the cliff than to build a bridge with foundations

on the wall of a crumbling canyon.

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DU POLL: Sometimes it's better to go over the cliff than to build a bridge with foundations (Original Post) RKP5637 Dec 2012 OP

Are there other options? letemrot Dec 2012 #1

Yes, there are certainly other options. I had hoped they would come about, maybe they RKP5637 Dec 2012 #2

If I were in Obama's shoes, I'd go over the cliff. Selatius Dec 2012 #3

I spent a fair amount of time in my career in corporate negotiations. And sometimes it is RKP5637 Dec 2012 #4

letemrot

(184 posts)

1. Are there other options?

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:19 PM

Dec 2012

Can't we get the revenue increases without the SS cuts? Boner will have serious egg on his face if taxes go up and spending cuts happen.. Won't the country see it for what it really is? Schilling for the rich?

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

2. Yes, there are certainly other options. I had hoped they would come about, maybe they

Reply to letemrot (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:23 PM

Dec 2012

still will.

Selatius

(20,441 posts)

3. If I were in Obama's shoes, I'd go over the cliff.

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:30 PM

Dec 2012

The notion of switching to the chained CPI over the current measure of inflation reporting is decisively a cut.

Why even bother running on a platform of no cuts to major social programs and then abandon it a month after re-election?

I would have to think somebody or a group or organization with influence in both the office of president and the halls of congress would be making this change in game.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

4. I spent a fair amount of time in my career in corporate negotiations. And sometimes it is

Reply to Selatius (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:50 PM

Dec 2012

best to go over the cliff ... when the opposition is inane and bullheaded. It resets the playing levels and a new starting point than the tit-tat back and forth. At least in the negotiation courses I took, they said there was a time to simply walk away. Sometimes there is absolutely no compromising.

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