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December 6, 2012 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Politicans May Actually Compromise to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff

Photo Credit: Scarto via Flickr Creative Commons

It’s a long way down to fall off a cliff, and it looks like some of our elected politicians in Washington are slowly starting to realize that this game of chicken that they’re playing won’t benefit the general public. In fact, it’s gotten to the politicians are starting to think of crazy, outside-the-box strategies like comprising to avoid the consequences of a perfect storm of tax increases and public spending that will certainly push us back into a recession.

Forbes has the story on how the proverbial dominoes are starting to fall. All it takes is one person to stand up in the name of common sense to get meaningful discussions started. If I were a gambling man, my money would be on congress reaching a retroactive agreement sometime early 2013. What do you think?

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