If I offered you a deal where for every dollar you gave me, I would give you two dollars and fifty cents would you take it? Would you think it strange that someone would not take a deal like that?
We have a looming national debt and the fix most likely involves cutting spending and raising revenues. Yes, that means raising some taxes. This is what President Obama offered and it was flatly refused. For every 2.50 in spending cuts he asked for 1.00 in tax increases. By all accounts that should be a good deal But no, that was not enough. All for me and none for you. That's what republicans said. They were like school children who plugged theirs and blabbered on because no one was saying anything they wanted to hear. That was irresponsible.
But I can see that it was in their interest to do that. If they had, we would have had part of a debt solution underway and republicans would have zero chance of winning the white house. Instead, nothing got done and this gave them the opportunity to say that nothing got done.
That's backwards.
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