Obama pressing business and labor on fiscal cliff ("They'll still be wealthy")
Source: AP-Excite
By KEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a challenge to Republicans, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to extend expiring tax cuts immediately for all but the nation's highest income earners as a way to eliminate half of the so-called "fiscal cliff" that threatens to send the economy back into recession.
"What I'm not going to do is to extend Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent that we can't afford and according to economists will have the least positive impact on the economy," the president said at his first news conference since his re-election last week.
Standing in the East Room of the White House, Obama pointedly noted he had campaigned on a platform that called for allowing tax breaks to expire as scheduled on Dec. 31 for the wealthiest income earners.
"A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs," Obama said. "They'll still be wealthy."
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President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. The president touched on various topics including the widening sex scandal, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and possibly meeting with his recent presidential rival Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The President isn't the one I was referrring to. Why does the Media aka the Press(, not the President) keep bringing this up, why can't they let it go was my question?
isn't it? 
I never thought I'd see so many of them having meltdowns all at once.
