It's not just taxes that are impacted - "fiscal cliff" and the poor

[TheKentuckian]

13. I have argued against these "deals" and with each one made the more hostages are taken

We don't have to worry about the UI extensions, those hostages were already killed in the deal that "saved" them, one year of extension for two years of extending the cuts. Those people have already been forgotten about and written off and the newly unemployed in a higher level of crisis than when the original extension passed, are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and the old 99ers we were supposed to be helping are dead as far as any effort to help them and their families, hopefully they have also found their boot straps in good working order.

Then to make another deal with the devil and creating millions of more hostages is beyond my reckoning but at the time some of those most likely to wring hands about the hostages were talking how great a deal we had snookered the TeaPubliKlans into and that the cuts would be no big deal and pretending we had the big hostage, military cuts.

Bullshit, I said let them kill the hostages when I was one because I expected more hostages would be under threat and a deal will create even more the next round without any increased benefit in exchange.

Even the dimmest bulbs cast enough light to see this pattern, or would if they would be honest rather than playing with game theory and personality cults.