U.S. Congress approves tax deal staving off fiscal cliff

The deal will have major longer-term implications for the wider world.

B92

This deal will not make an iota difference to the world economy as it's already painfully clear that Europe's and the U.S. governments' and central banks' rescue efforts have failed.Nevertheless,he euro,the U.S. dollar and Japanese Yen will continue racing each other to the bottom of the heap of paper currencies that have failed until they become totally worthless and the entire Western world sinks deeply into an inflationary depression.

It doesn't matter whether they're still re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, they’re still going to the bottom.It's just a matter of when not if.

(Leonidas, 2 January 2013 18:54)

As usual, eloquently put. All this talk of averting the “fiscal cliff’ is a diversion from the real problem of a growing foreign debt that is now ballooning out of control. Next on the US Government agenda is to increase the size of the debt.

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.
(luciano, 2 January 2013 23:02)

Dude I see again you have no idea who a communist is.If you really want to find one look around among your jewish brothers.In eastern and southern europe 99 percent of hardline commies were jews.Of course after the so called change of system they immidiately became good "capitalists" and great democrates.A cameleon will never turn into a lion.

Almost fell over the edge, but what about next year and the year after that. The Americans could of easily remained the worlds sole superpower for decades to come if it were not for its foreign policy of greed, aggressive expansionism, lies and manipulation and of course that smug arrogance that the world has come to see in the past two decades. Their military is stretched to its limits to breaking point infact and now defence budget cuts which we will see on an annual basis. God help those who cant afford private medical care, and how are they going to tackle other social economic problems at home. Soon the white man will be an insignificant minority, there will be separatism and social disorder. They're making more enemies than friends, and even their friends can no longer turn a blind eye to their war mongering and ruthlessness. They have slowly run themselves into irreversible decline and eventually total collapse. This nation has for too long been able to use the worlds resources as their own whilst in exchange polluting and destroying the natural environment like no other. They climaxed economically, socially and morally decades ago and are now on a downhill slide, nothing can get them out of this one, no overly dramatic speeches with patriotic hymns playing in the background , you cannot rally a nation that hates themselves. Slowly but surely another empire bites the dust and so too many of their insignificant puppets!

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.
(luciano, 2 January 2013 23:02)

Only the sheeple watching Fox news cannot see what is going on in the Ponzi US.Stock markets,commodity markets,interest rates,inflation rates are all manipulated in order to resuscitate the Ponzi system but to no avail.

Your whole economic system is broken and the democratic system is too, your elected representatives have become shills for corporate interests, a bunch of greedy piss taking pillocks and mindless avatars for the Murdoch media bias.

I also know that people like yourself will not revolt because they will be blinded by false patriotic paradigm.

BTW The Greek communists behave in exactly the same way like you do.Having lost the intellectual arguments they retort to personal attacks and calling names.Keep it up.

BTW The Greek communists behave in exactly the same way like you do.Having lost the intellectual arguments they retort to personal attacks and calling names.Keep it up.
(Leonidas, 3 January 2013 20:41)

Well you seem to understand the mentality of sore losers living in our street.

karma, there is one last way for america to fix the problems that ail them. they can fully engage their war machine on foriegn soil. so long as they are able to fight a war without reducing their physical investments (buildings bridges etc) to rubble, while doing so to everyone else, they can generate large munitions factories, mobilize an army and at home work force and no one else will be able to.
this is how american gained its dominance after ww2 and this is how they will try it again. perhaps they will succeed, or perhaps they won't, but either way it will not be pretty for anyone.

The deal will have major longer-term implications for the wider world.

B92

This deal will not make an iota difference to the world economy as it's already painfully clear that Europe's and the U.S. governments' and central banks' rescue efforts have failed.Nevertheless,he euro,the U.S. dollar and Japanese Yen will continue racing each other to the bottom of the heap of paper currencies that have failed until they become totally worthless and the entire Western world sinks deeply into an inflationary depression.

It doesn't matter whether they're still re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, they’re still going to the bottom.It's just a matter of when not if.

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.

(Leonidas, 2 January 2013 18:54)

As usual, eloquently put. All this talk of averting the “fiscal cliff’ is a diversion from the real problem of a growing foreign debt that is now ballooning out of control. Next on the US Government agenda is to increase the size of the debt.

Almost fell over the edge, but what about next year and the year after that. The Americans could of easily remained the worlds sole superpower for decades to come if it were not for its foreign policy of greed, aggressive expansionism, lies and manipulation and of course that smug arrogance that the world has come to see in the past two decades. Their military is stretched to its limits to breaking point infact and now defence budget cuts which we will see on an annual basis. God help those who cant afford private medical care, and how are they going to tackle other social economic problems at home. Soon the white man will be an insignificant minority, there will be separatism and social disorder. They're making more enemies than friends, and even their friends can no longer turn a blind eye to their war mongering and ruthlessness. They have slowly run themselves into irreversible decline and eventually total collapse. This nation has for too long been able to use the worlds resources as their own whilst in exchange polluting and destroying the natural environment like no other. They climaxed economically, socially and morally decades ago and are now on a downhill slide, nothing can get them out of this one, no overly dramatic speeches with patriotic hymns playing in the background , you cannot rally a nation that hates themselves. Slowly but surely another empire bites the dust and so too many of their insignificant puppets!

karma, there is one last way for america to fix the problems that ail them. they can fully engage their war machine on foriegn soil. so long as they are able to fight a war without reducing their physical investments (buildings bridges etc) to rubble, while doing so to everyone else, they can generate large munitions factories, mobilize an army and at home work force and no one else will be able to.
this is how american gained its dominance after ww2 and this is how they will try it again. perhaps they will succeed, or perhaps they won't, but either way it will not be pretty for anyone.

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.
(luciano, 2 January 2013 23:02)

Dude I see again you have no idea who a communist is.If you really want to find one look around among your jewish brothers.In eastern and southern europe 99 percent of hardline commies were jews.Of course after the so called change of system they immidiately became good "capitalists" and great democrates.A cameleon will never turn into a lion.

I see the new year has not made my friend Leonidas more of an optimist but he continues with his amusing doomsday prophecies.How many votes does the Greek Communist Party have in the Greek parliament Leonidas?Happy New Year to all the Balkan peoples.
(luciano, 2 January 2013 23:02)

Only the sheeple watching Fox news cannot see what is going on in the Ponzi US.Stock markets,commodity markets,interest rates,inflation rates are all manipulated in order to resuscitate the Ponzi system but to no avail.

Your whole economic system is broken and the democratic system is too, your elected representatives have become shills for corporate interests, a bunch of greedy piss taking pillocks and mindless avatars for the Murdoch media bias.

I also know that people like yourself will not revolt because they will be blinded by false patriotic paradigm.

BTW The Greek communists behave in exactly the same way like you do.Having lost the intellectual arguments they retort to personal attacks and calling names.Keep it up.

BTW The Greek communists behave in exactly the same way like you do.Having lost the intellectual arguments they retort to personal attacks and calling names.Keep it up.
(Leonidas, 3 January 2013 20:41)

Well you seem to understand the mentality of sore losers living in our street.