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Poll: The public wants compromise on the fiscal cliff
According to the poll, a combined 68 percent of Americans say that the fiscal cliff – the looming combination of tax increases and spending cuts set to take place at the beginning of next year if nothing is done – is either a “very serious” or “fairly serious” problem.
A similar two-thirds of respondents are willing to accept an increase in taxes or cuts in federal government programs they care about to reach an agreement to avoid the problem.
Asked another way, 65 percent say leaders in Congress should find a compromise to reduce the budget deficit, even if that means Democrats would need to accept targeted spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and that Republicans would need to accept targeted increases in tax rates.
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In other words the WH memo went out to NBC to cook up some polls to distract Boehner’s and McConnell’s fragile egos and vanities to “compromise” away from doing that which would be fiscally essential which is to cut spending instead of always feeding the Marxist monster more hoping it will go away.
viking01 on December 13, 2012 at 12:18 AM
Yes, let’s not fall off, let’s just gently fall off.
fossten on December 13, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Gravity. It’s what’s for dinner!
Shy Guy on December 13, 2012 at 12:50 AM
We’ve already fallen off, we just don’t know it yet. Frankly I don’t care anymore, as long as I can look after my family. Let. It. Burn.
Logus on December 13, 2012 at 1:00 AM
Yeah, yeah, yeah and next week “the public” will want a pony. Screw the public and what they want.
Let
It
Burn.
trapeze on December 13, 2012 at 1:35 AM
“The public” is who votes for the House. If the Republicans attempt to play a game of chicken with this and dig in their heels and we go over the cliff without a deal, the Republicans are going to be blamed and they will lose the House in 2014. Worrying about replacing Boehner will be small potatoes because the Democrats will have the House if the Republicans refuse to make a compromise here.
Right now Boehner is offering the Democrats exactly what the majority of the voters want and the Democrats are digging in their heels. If we go over the cliff as things stand today, the Democrats get the blame, not the Republicans. It’s the Democrats playing “chicken” with the economy at this point.
crosspatch on December 13, 2012 at 2:01 AM
The federal reserve announced it will monetize 85 billion dollars a month, a trillion dollars next year.
As if the piddly amounts in the cliff matter. Our public can’t get past the celebrity culture and non-issues to see the real fiscal cliff coming from all the deficits and debt. We have idiots in power on both sides of the aisle. There is no recovering from the amount of leverage we are all on the hook for.
Chubbs65 on December 13, 2012 at 3:08 AM
Define Compromise!
Because Capitulation by one side to the other is Not Compromise.
jaydee_007 on December 13, 2012 at 4:41 AM
The ‘public’ are by a large a bunch of idiots who haven’t the foggiest notion of what the fiscal cliff is and to whom the word ‘compromise’ is a sort of meaningless magic mantra (kind of like ‘moderate’). Of course they want compromise. COmpromise sounds nice. Compromise sounds, moderate and calm. Compromise sounds like something no one could possibly be against.
Compromise sounds reasonable, like Obama saying, “I think the (unnamed and unknown ‘rich person with whom none of us has a personal relationship) should pay a little more.” Of course that sounds reasonable, because this unknown unnamed rich person isn’t you and whoever he is, surely he wouldn’t mind paying a little more.
theblackcommenter on December 13, 2012 at 4:47 AM
this
must be a dem poll…
cmsinaz on December 13, 2012 at 6:27 AM
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Somebody needs to teach Obama what compromise means.
cntrlfrk on December 13, 2012 at 6:53 AM
The proposed tax increase on the “rich” is 11%. I wonder what the response would have been if the question was: Would YOU be willing to pay 11% more in taxes as part of a compromise?
FirelandsO3 on December 13, 2012 at 6:57 AM
I want to read and hear about only two poles: one pole that gets shoved up Obama’s a**, and a second pole that gets shoved up Harry Reid’s a**.
Oh. The headline is about a poll. Well, I still want to read and hear about those other two poles.
BuckeyeSam on December 13, 2012 at 7:08 AM
Polling an electorate that has twice elected a communist is as useless as they are.
We live in a “Jay Walking” country.
Rio Linda Refugee on December 13, 2012 at 7:27 AM
Well of course! Nobody ever thinks their group is in the targeted group whose pet entitlement is cut, or the targeted group whose taxes will be raised.
As a single white male with no children, non-homeowner, who makes enough to live, but would be strained to take on any new debt (new car – Cash for Clunkers, any of the tax credits for new, energy efficient appliances, etc.) I’m still waiting to find out when I’m going to be in the target for relief. Besides the targeted group for having my money stolen, that is.
Mitoch55 on December 13, 2012 at 7:31 AM
THE LEFT OWNS THIS MESS
Reid & company have not balanced the budget for how many years?
And the demoncrats refused to deal with this in any way during the reelection of Barrack Hussein Obama.
Not to mention the fact the the MSN was not interested in talking about his crap economy, let alone the so called “fiscal cliff” until the day after the election.
So … why is this suddenly important to them now?
Oh yeah, because it confirms that socialism is the reason for the so called “fiscal cliff” and this fact cannot be hidden by historical revisionists. Especially in the age of the internet.
kregg on December 13, 2012 at 7:35 AM
We already went over a fiscal cliff.
And Americans are not serious about any of this anyway.
No one is willing to make themselves an example & stock the teat sucking.
They complain about everybody else’s teat sucking, but suck alongside them.
It’s ridiculous.
As long as the Federal government is TAXING people for Social Security & Medicare, you’ll never stop any of this.
The Federal govt has no power that says they have the right to confiscate our money to pay it in retirement benefits to others.
This is such a scam.
And they will come after private retirement accounts.
I’m counting on it.
Badger40 on December 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM
stock = stop
Badger40 on December 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM