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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There is no hope of either party enacting serious custs to Medicare, SS or Defense, or even stanching substantial pork projects. Let them fiddle. I'll be moving to commodities... emphasis: Scotch and Spam.
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I'm not so sure about this. There is a block of tea partiers that will not vote for raising the debt ceiling unless it is tied to budget cuts/deficit reduction. Normally, I would think this is posturing, but I think a lot of these guys are nuts enough to play chicken.