Watch Your Wallet! Much Ado about Nothing in Budget Debate

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Watch Your Wallet! Much Ado about Nothing in Budget Debate
By Dave Lindorff
OpEdNews Op Eds 2/25/2013 at 13:11:06

All the sturm and drang in Washington over the March 1 deadline for a budget deal is an act. Two acts really.

The Republicans are pretending that if we don't have budget cuts this year, the whole US economy will collapse because of the nation's enormous indebtedness.

The Democrats are pretending that if no deal is reached, and automatic across-the-board cuts of 8% for the Pentagon and 5% for other programs will not only put the nation's defense at risk and cause widespread suffering, but that it will derail the nation's fragile economic "recovery."

Both claims are, to put it gently, bullshit.