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woo me with science

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13. It is a fabricated crisis. But it has been purposely rigged to trigger austerity no matter what.

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:11 PM

Dec 2012

They have deliberately set up the options here so that going over the cliff is merely the least horrible austerity option out of the carefully crafted range of horrible austerity options set before us.

It is Shock Doctrine disaster capitalism, pure and simple.

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In your opinion is the fiscal cliff overblown? Or are we really headed for disaster? [View all] Locut0s Dec 2012 OP

Been hearing too much weird stuff. Some say it will throw us into recession and it Cleita Dec 2012 #1

Much will depend on how the market reacts.... Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #8

WWWAAAAAYYYYY overblown. yourout Dec 2012 #2

Along with the increased taxes, Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #3

Unfortunately... sendero Dec 2012 #7

I don't care as long as they don't cut entitlements to pay for it. Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #9

You sure have that right..... wandy Dec 2012 #10

I think..... sendero Dec 2012 #11

There is a puckish part of me Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #14

Right, wandy. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #18

A lot of it IMO is theatrics! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #4

Overblown! backscatter712 Dec 2012 #5

I elieve it is republican garbage. the tax increases are a good thing. It will be easy to lower taxe robinlynne Dec 2012 #6

I, for one, welcome going down the "cliff" quinnox Dec 2012 #12

It is a fabricated crisis. But it has been purposely rigged to trigger austerity no matter what. woo me with science Dec 2012 #13

I survived the Mayans, that crazy radio church guy, Y2K, OffWithTheirHeads Dec 2012 #15

overblown Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #16

My opinion the teabaggers in the House don't care, they are willing to doc03 Dec 2012 #17

I think it is the reverse Nikia Dec 2012 #19