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Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 | 12:15 a.m.
WASHINGTON — With at least 1 million jobs on the line, Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off nearly $1 trillion in cuts that were already affecting Pentagon decision-making and could force significant reductions in staffing and services across the government. Despite strong resistance from Republican leaders to new tax revenues, Democrats said that they expected the onset of federal furloughs and layoffs on March 1 to make Republicans more receptive to an emerging solution that would combine spending cuts with revenue from closing tax loopholes. Lawmakers were being spurred by increasingly ...
I guess this is what happens when we run out of other peoples money! Far more than 1 million jobs if this takes place folks, in fact, it's hard to believe this was not their intent from the start.
As a Canadian, what your government decides to do or not to do won't affect me directly, but this article is almost farcical with its doomsday predictions about any and all of the possible individual cuts.
It certainly appears that all significant cuts will be postponed over and over again.
Leadership (in both parties) is taking a massive holiday.
Massive deficit spending is an insidious disease gradually eating the heart right out of America, but neither party wants to take any medicine.
Donald W. Desaulniers