tHEY DID NOT DEAL WITH THIS OR MAKE IT VERY PUBLIC THAT THIS WAS SET TO EXPIRE...

jackconrad wrote:

anyone read/hear about the additional pork they snuck into the fiscal cliff stuff? Additional funds going to Hollywood, railroad companies, etc etc....

I wouldn't doubt if the only reason it took so long to come to some agreement was so that all these friends of politicians could stick their hands out and get on this gravy train. 😣

daveincincy wrote:

anyone read/hear about the additional pork they snuck into the fiscal cliff stuff? Additional funds going to Hollywood, railroad companies, etc etc....

I wouldn't doubt if the only reason it took so long to come to some agreement was so that all these friends of politicians could stick their hands out and get on this gravy train. 😣

daveincincy wrote:

anyone read/hear about the additional pork they snuck into the fiscal cliff stuff? Additional funds going to Hollywood, railroad companies, etc etc....

I wouldn't doubt if the only reason it took so long to come to some agreement was so that all these friends of politicians could stick their hands out and get on this gravy train. 😣

daveincincy wrote:

This sellout will come back to bite John Boehner (sp?) in the ass. Prolly resign soon... or be tossed out as Speaker.

bloody spaniard wrote:

F*&!...I just saw it (the 2% SS increase) in my first check of 2013...only it was 2.5% 🤦


So...all of this talk (BS) about helping the middle-class, and EVERYONE gets to pay more? Seriously, maybe I missed something. I can't stand watching the news, especially if there's a politician talking. But how is this helping the middle class? There's gonna be some pizzed off folks that consider themselves "middle class," and were all for sticking it to the man and the evil rich, that will see their first check and say, WTF?!?!

daveincincy wrote:

This sellout will come back to bite John Boehner (sp?) in the ass. Prolly resign soon... or be tossed out as Speaker.

bloody spaniard wrote:

in fact the vast majority of the 157 page bill deals with special interest pork. The portion that deals with the "bush tax cuts" is only a few pages - about 20 pages. about 7 pages for extension of some deductions for individuals. the vast majority of the remaining 130 pages is special interest pork.






BUT AT LEAST THEY FINALLY PASSED SOMETHING! so I am only looking at about a 1.5 - 2.0 percent reduction in my income (tax increase).

jojoc wrote:

4 trillion new debt isn't progress.

ZRX1200 wrote:

He's got Gov. Christie all over his @ss too on Hurricane sandy aid that was promised to be voted on, but not delivered. The guy is a dead man walking. he couldn't even bring his plan B to a vote in the house. he'll get the blame, deserved or not, for a lot of what has/will go down. been waiting a very long time for this. Cantor will probably get his job...

rfenst wrote: