LITTLE ROCK — Both of Arkansas' U.S. senators voted in favor of legislation to avert sharp increases in federal taxes and steep cuts in government spending but the state's House delegation was split.
Republican Senator John Boozman and Democratic Senator Mark Pryor both voted "yes" on the measure this weekend.
The House delegation was evenly divided, with Democratic Rep. Mike Ross voting "yes," along with Republican Rep. Steve Womack. Republican Reps. Rick Crawford and Tim Griffin voted against the measure.
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You obviously don't realize....
...just how bad this bill is.
Thanks to 'compromise' we are now ever further in debt - The Senate deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit when compared to current law, according to new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Well...........
Liberals from the top down aren't concerned about debt or deficit spending.
I'm sure many were forced to upchuck after pulling the lever.
Hey seven
The deal is not great but let's not go overboard. Here is an assessment by Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/02/kaletsky-congress-idUSL1E9C2BT...)
"U.S. deficits and debt, far from rising to infinity, are actually quite stable. Deficits have been halved since 2009 and will decline by about $150 billion annually in each of the next three years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile total debt is projected by the CBO to stabilize at around 82 percent of GDP from next year until 2018. And that is before any of the tax hikes agreed to this week. Taking account of roughly $620 billion in extra revenues raised by the fiscal cliff deal, U.S. debt will stabilize at a significantly lower GDP share and will probably do so by the middle of this year."
Yup! In just two months the
Yup!
In just two months the Teaba&&ers of "austerity" are gonna gut healthcare for veterans, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and every program that benefits the public.
Thus it is written in the unspoken premise that The United States of America ran up a high credit card bill...thanks primarily to tax cuts by George W. Bush who kept two wars off the books.
Oops! Also, too, then crashed the economy...after inheriting a balanced budget from Clinton!
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Wrong comment thread...
never mind.