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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/15

'Grand Bargain' Charade a Scheme to Protect Corporate Welfare
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/15-2

The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/15-0

Fiscal Cliff or Austerity Bomb, Time for Obama to Show Courage
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/19-9

Debunking the 'Fiscal Cliff'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/11/27

'Fiscal Cliff' Hype and the Future of Grover Norquist s Taxpayer Pledge
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/28-1

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Grand Bargain betrayal

Our Future
by Robert Borosage

11/15/12

With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of the year. Most economists, including the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, agree that if nothing is done, this arbitrary, Washington-created 'fiscal cliff,' as Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke dubbed it, will likely drive the economy back into recession. It is probably already contributing to slower growth...

http://blog.ourfuture.org/grand-bargain-betrayal/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Guess What They Are NOT Cutting in the Fiscal Cliff
http://lewrockwell.com/black-s/black-s144.html

Who s Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan280.html

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Americans Want Leadership Now on Real Cliffs: Jobs and Human Survival

Paul Street, Truthout: No matter how difficult, we need to tell the truth about our dehumanizing, destructive economy, drop the politicking on the so-called ''fiscal cliff,'' and solve the problems of climate change and unemployment.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12826-americans-want-leadership-on-real-cliffs-jobs-and-ecology



Party of Entitled Rich Threatens Economy

Leo Gerard, Campaign for America s Future: Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way. President Obama is right to take that advice and refuse to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding to appease the entitled rich.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12926-party-of-entitled-rich-threatens-economy



The Missing Living Wage Agenda

Annette Bernhardt and Dorian Warren, Next New Deal: The media may have discovered inequality last year with the surprise emergence of Occupy Wall Street, but in truth, there is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12927-the-missing-living-wage-agenda



Beyond Fiscal Cliff, an Austerity Bomb

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The phrase ''austerity bomb'' is a much better term than ''fiscal cliff'' to describe what s scheduled to happen at the end of the year.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12974-beyond-fiscal-cliff-an-austerity-bomb

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6 Reasons the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam

By James K. Galbraith


The fiscal cliff is a device constructed to force a rollback of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as the price of avoiding tax increases and disruptive cuts in federal civilian programs and in the military.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33140.htm



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