What will happen to America if the fiscal cliff passes ?

[ROB SHERIDAN]

[Respectedvoyage672]

We will have a certain recession.

[M.j Lim]

Rejoice

[YB Logical]

Boehner and the Republican leadership are proving their absolute stupidity to the Nation.
And con man Obama is playing them AND the American People for the fools that they are.
Neither Party has the courage nor the intelligence needed to actually fix the problem, so they are posturing for a "blame game", and Democrats have the edge in this game because they have more media assistance.

While Obama publicly claims he wants a deal to avoid going over the cliff, he privately prays it will not happen.
Obama needs the Country to go over the Cliff and is doing everything possible in hopes that Republicans will not prevent it. This is exactly why Obama and the Democrats refuse to make spending cuts demanded by Republicans a part of the deal.

The Nation is facing a severe recession in 2013 and we have never recovered from the last, in spite of how all the unemployment and economic numbers have been manipulated to indicate otherwise.
The coming of 7 new Obama care taxes in 2013, in addition to the 9 already in effect, and the immediate need to, again, raise the debt ceiling are sufficient to cause it. (No one is talking about it yet, but the debt ceiling will need to be raised by mid January at the very latest.)
The tax hikes that Democrats are asking for are not enough to prevent the coming recession and actually make it more likely.

Obama knows this.
He knows that his policies of the past four years have failed.
That is why he could not run on his record.

His stimulus failed to revive the economy like we were told.
QE 1, 2, and 3 have failed to revive the economy like we were told.
The millions of "green jobs" have not been created like we were told.
The "Summer of Recovery" proved to be a flop.
There are more unemployed than ever before.
There are more people on Food Stamps than ever before.
Most every economic indicator points to recession.

If the Republicans fail to cut a deal to prevent going over the cliff, then with the help of the media, Obama can blame them and not have to take any responsibility for the cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and other Social Programs which would also occur with going over the Cliff.....cuts which Obama and the Democrats know are necessary.
He can blame Republicans for his failures during the past four years AND the coming recession.
Republicans need to be aware of this trap and make a deal....any deal.....any terms..... to prevent going over the supposed Cliff.
Then Obama will sh!t all over himself.
And liberals will be forced to admit that Obama's policies do not, have not, and will not work.

[Jenny]

Nothing. The country will survive and almost everybody will have to tighten their belts a bit at first. These "tax increases" are not increases at all but simply the previous tax rates under Clinton when the country prospered.
I think, the Bush tax cuts need to expire. It won't be the end of the world.

[Joseph the Second]

Life WILL go On... It'll just get a little MORE Expensive, that's All.

[Antares]

Nothing.........the already worthless dollar will get weaker, more war will be required, civil unrest riots mass murders, concentrations camps martial law gun confiscation, suspension of the constitution articles of the bill of rights sbolished, all of them, a dictatorial shithole amerika is fast becoming....I hope you are ready, cause the shit is about to hit the fan............