resolution occurs before the end of the year? that s a very good question. when it comes to closing corporate tax loopholes, they swear allegiance to grover norquist and won t close for the purpose of reducing the deficit. when it comes to ending tax breaks for millionaires, they refuse to do that for the purpose of deficit reduction. that s how we proposed to pay for a full year extension for 160 million americans. apparently when it comes to every working american, that pledge doesn t matter. go ahead and raise taxes on 160 million americans even though they will fight zealously to protect tax breaks for the corporations and very wealthy. speaker baner is ending the year as he began the year. in gridlock. we have seen it all year. doesn t this one really isn t this the crowning moment of dysfunctionality within the congress?
officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nation s debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is just 12 days away. somalia s president is asking the world for immediate help to feed his country s people. the united nations says more than 3.5 million somalis are threatened by famine. aide workers call the food shortage even worse than the ethiopian famine of the mid- 80s. our children need immediate action. immediate action is action today. almost half of this country s population will be sweltering in a dangerous heat wave today. hot air and high humidity will make big cities along
is they re very unhappy. during the midterm elections, the republicans told the tea party what the tea party said that they wanted to hear and since the elections they ve not really seen the results that they wanted. the $100 billion in spending cuts that the republicans promised in the fiscal 2011 budget didn t materialize. and now they re beginning to doubt to the republicans are going to hold the line when it come sz to the debt limit. nick, in your conversation with the tee party, these people in that private meeting with speaker baner and others, do you get the sense that they actually understand what the debt ceiling really is and what might happen to them, what might happen to the value of their own homes, their inability to sell their homes, their inability to get mortgages if they if somehow the republicans did not allow the debt ceiling to be raised? i think they understand very clearly what the debt limitรง i. i think they don t believe what they re being told by econ
real needs and that we depend upon speaker baner to assist us in meeting those needs. how tough is it to get a decent paying job here in ohio? there isn t a decembent payi job anymore with all the layoffs, cutbacks, the recession, whatever you want to call it, there isn t any jobs out there. it s very hard. everybody says cut the budget but not in my backyard. well, i hear that. and you re right. i don t care where you go, if it s affecting them, they re going to fight for it. that s the human nature way. it is. wolf, the army says it s not really trying to shut the tank plant down. it just doesn t need any more thanks right now. so they want to stop production essentially for three years. but the reality is that likely means the workers in lima, ohio, will lose their jobs. taxpayers will save money in the process though. it s a tough tough debate. thanks very much, barbara, for that. if you ve been to the gastation lately, chances are you re