
New York (CNNMoney) - Debt reduction may be consuming Capitol Hill these days, but lawmakers have a number of pricey budget decisions to make before the year's out.
Unless Congress steps in, come January payments to Medicare doctors will be slashed by nearly 30%. Workers' payroll tax cut will expire. And federal unemployment benefits will end for close to 2 million jobless workers.
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These dire consequences are a dream come true to GOP baggers. We will have to add Medicare doctors to the long list of people republicans hate.
Blame the GOP-baggers, they are 100% responsible for the impasse in Congress. They are nothing more than America-hating domestic terrorists who should be tried and shot for treason.
This 12-member "Super Committee" is like entrusting Foxes and Wolves to watch the henhouse! No doubt it will end in a stalemate and forced cuts in our National Defense will ensue. Washington is abysmal!
And, as sure as the sun rises, the GOBP deathcult will hold unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts hostage so they can extort more pork for the 1%ers who run the cult.
This is just great - we'll get to witness the republican House hold the entire country hostage yet again. If people in all states do NOT vote out the baggers, this country is toast.
if Obama had not wasted 4 Trillion dollars on green energy loans (another FAILURE); we would have the 600 Billion dollars needed.