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The super panel was created with extraordinary, fast-track powers this summer under the law agreed to by Republicans and Democrats during the debt ceiling crisis. That same law now says its failure will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts over 10 years, starting in 2013. That so-called sequestration is to include cuts to Pentagon spending.
There is a chance Congress will somehow try to alter these cuts, or even sidestep them. Some lawmakers were already saying they will immediately move legislation to block those automatic cuts to the defense budget.
But the nation’s debt crisis will continue – with the deficit now at about $15 trillion. It also is likely no coincidence that the committee waited until the financial markets closed for the day to make the announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average had already tumbled by more than 300 points earlier in the day partly in anticipation of the acknowledgement of failure.
Originally posted by theruthlessone
reply to post by thegoods724
its a complete farce i hope the meltdown happens sooner rather than later and we can have a totally new system put in place
Originally posted by theruthlessone
I just really dont know where there gonna go from here, and globally speaking i cant see how we can ever get out of debt i dont understand how nearly every single country is in debt
Is there any way out..............?edit on 22/9/2011 by theruthlessone because: (no reason given)
Imagine if tomorrow the United States pulled its military out of every nation. Imagine if tomorrow the United States ended the Federal Reserve. Imagine if tomorrow the United States shut down the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
Debt, my friend, is a good thing, atleast on a national scale.