compromise. while he keeps the pressure on, some republicans talk of another 11th hour deal. i want to get my republican colleagues to come up with a plan instead of, you know, firing the soldiers. we ought to fire the politicians. to some people the wedge is more important than the policy. republican congressman back in arizona telling his constituents he will hold firm. you are going back to d.c. on monday and from there five days to solve this or go over whatever fiscal cliff will happen when the sequestration kicks in. how do you see this unfolding in the next few days? the first mess take in the question he is saying solving. if we don t do this tiny marginal reduction in spending which ultimately by the end of the decade isn t a reduction in spending, just a reduction in the growth of spending. god forbid what our future is if we want do this. could america s future come done to another last minute
if this plan fails sequestration. a name for the threat of a hacksaw approach for the thet of reduction was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate the nondefense program. the republicans wouldn t stand cuts to the military. the theory was these cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen. after months of deliberate brakes they couldn t come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens that was the same time so-called bush tax cuts were set to expire. it was in super crisis. fed chairman ben bernanke gave it a name. it would be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. the fiscal cliff was a
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