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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswe are experiencing the 'fiscal cliff' thru the lens of the media that had mitt winning election
i find it amusing that the media is talking about washington being broken...
Botany
(70,516 posts).... "both sides must work together."
spanone
(135,844 posts)it's such utter bullshit.
Cha
(297,304 posts)We wouldnt be facing a fiscal cliff at all if Republicans were willing to compromise/govern. But here we are, with Republicans refusing to tax the rich and threatening to raise taxes on all Americans unless they get cuts to entitlements in order to play pretend fiscal conservative. They never want to address real spending issues like defense spending. A serious fiscal conservative would take aim at where the bloat and waste linger, not only at their ideological foes.
And of course our media are here to help them sell this utterly false image by ending with a quote from a Republican blaming Democrats for the fiscal cliff.
http://www.politicususa.com/media-plays-republican-shell-game-fiscal-cliff-ignoring-math.html
We wouldn't have a "fiscal cliff" either if bush-cheney hadn't spent all of Clinton's Surplus and left a Trillion $$$ in debt from spending money without being held accountable for two wars and a Medicare Drug Program.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Unfortunately most folks still don't get math.
And our national math literacy quotient does not appear to be getting any better anytime soon.
International Comparison of Math, Reading, and Science Skills Among 15-Year-Olds
We are right up there- under Latvia.
The UK is strangely mia in this data set.
I like this concept of numeracy: Numeracy
madokie
(51,076 posts)going out of their way to paint this as the republiCONs are trying to get legislation though but the President keeps blocking them.
spanone
(135,844 posts)corker is as partisan as they come
madokie
(51,076 posts)How do these people get elected? I mean really how do they do that
spanone
(135,844 posts)rethugs rule both houses of congress
both out senators are thugs
as is our governor....
they are ramming unbelievable shit thru our halls of congress
madokie
(51,076 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)depressing as hell....
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)We have indeed become exactly what we were told growing up, that other oppressive countries were; A nation of rulers and serfs and a media of propaganda.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Howcome anyway we always gotta play on the other side's field? Why is it all about paying off the debts--the ones Bush ran up with his wars for the profit of the defense industry & tax cuts for the rich--by stealing fromt he poor?
Howcome it's never about getting our asses out of the business of conquering the world, cutting the military, increasing taxes on the super-wealthy, levying fines on corporations (think BP) commensurate with the damage they wreak, stopping the giveaways to the oil companies, giving stimulus money to the people from whom it was stolen instead of to the thieves
Aw, shit, my fingers can't keep up with my outrage.
spanone
(135,844 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)we have GOP propagandists.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Russian news is more credible.
shintao
(487 posts)WASHINGTON (AP) - A person familiar with the details says President Barack Obama is not making a new 'fiscal cliff' offer at his high-stakes meeting with congressional leaders at the White House.
Obama instead is spelling out again a plan he says can pass the House and Senate, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak publicly about the private meeting.
Obama wants a bill to halt looming tax increases on all families making $250,000 a year or less and would extend unemployment insurance to many people about to lose it. His proposal would also cover other issues as the Jan. 1 deadline nears.
If he does not get a counter proposal that can pass both chambers, Obama will press for a straight up-or-down vote on his idea, the source said.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20121228/DA3F0FH80.html
Jim Warren
(2,736 posts)and one that need be remembered.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)And I have yet to hear them interview a single democrat on the "Fiscal Cliff". They've become a mouthpiece for Republicscum propaganda.
spanone
(135,844 posts)they kept the horserace right up to the election....and they were ever so wrong.
now the horserace is the democrats vs republicans....and they play that....
right up to 2014 then on to 2016.