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‘Fiscal cliff’? Britain has already jumped.
Washington Post, by Anthony Faiola
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/16/2012 11:18:37 PM
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| NEWPORT, Wales — Is this what life on the other side of the “fiscal cliff” looks like? If President Obama and congressional Republicans fail to reach a deal in the coming weeks, Americans face a fierce wave of tax hikes and spending cuts that could threaten the U.S. economy. Yet Britain has already crashed over its own economic precipice, with the Conservative-led government unleashing a radical experiment in austerity since coming to power in 2010 that has seen public spending corralled and taxes increased on this side of the Atlantic.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nhchemist, 12/16/2012 11:34:40 PM (No. 9070039)
The idea of a soft landing is a myth. All the attempts to lessen the economic problems we have been facing since 2007, have simply extended the time before a recovery can take place. Britain will go through some hard times, but their recovery will be sooner for their efforts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
frede, 12/16/2012 11:43:07 PM (No. 9070050)
When I drive down the road, and look at all the storage places where we rent space to keep all the junk we drug home from the stores, I know that we have no discipline. We have too much money, and far to much credit.
And why do we give food stamps to a 300 lb, overweight man or woman?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Words have Meaning, 12/17/2012 1:01:14 AM (No. 9070099)
Well...There...You...Go. If it wasn´t for those darned conservatives trying to spend less money across the pond, Britain would be doing just fine.
I say we should spend like there is no tomorrow, because there probably is no tomorrow, at least the way we remember it.
I want to thank the Washington Post for having the courage to finally point this out. Spending more than you have always leads to prosperity. Let the good times roll.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/17/2012 4:36:01 AM (No. 9070187)
Here we go again--the WaPo shilling for Barry again. Did Britain shut down putting the grifters (diversity muslims) in mega mansions that cost the taxpayers a million pounds a year yet? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
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Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
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