Payroll tax cuts will pass – it’s the top of the docket and capital is key.
Wall Street Journal 12-31-11 - White House Looks to Shrunken 2012 Legislative Agenda
HONOLULU—President Barack Obama heads... a champion of the middle class.
Payroll tax cuts key to the economy.
Carr 9-7-11 – Chuck Marr is the Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 1999 through 2004, he was Economic Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Senior Advisor for Budget Policy at the National Economic Council from 1997 through 1999 during the second term of President Clinton. Tax policy was a key area of responsibility of both these positions. In addition, earlier in his career he was Chief Economist of the Senate Budget Committee and a professional staff member of the Senate Banking Committee. Most recently, prior to joining the Center in March, 2009, he was a senior political strategist in the Washington Research Group of Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, where he analyzed the impact of public policy on financial markets. He has also taught as an adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Letting Payroll Tax Cut Expire Would Shrink Worker Paychecks and Damage Weak Economy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3572
Failure by Congress to extend the ... end of 2012). [13]
Nuclear war—turns every impact.
Burrows and Harris 9 - Mathew J. Burrows is a counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, Jennifer Harris is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit, “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, The Washington Quarterly, April, http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf
Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of ... from a globalizing world turn negative.
***Libya Link***
Strong resistance to new aid to Libya.
Gail Russell Chaddock, staff writer @ Christian Science Monitor, 8-26-2011 (What happens next in Libya? America's five greatest concerns, the Christian Science Monitor, p. lexis)
With Congress committed to finding another ..."That's something the administration needs to sell the Congress."
***Yemen Link***
Recent pushes for cuts proves there’s no support for increases assistance to Yemen.
David Arnold, staff writer @ VOA, 8-8-2011 (US Debt Struggle Puts Middle East Aid Commitments in Question, Voice of America, p. www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/US-Debt-Struggle-Puts-Middle-East-Aid-Commitments-in-Question-127258298.html)
When lawmakers in the U.S. Congress began ... the federal budget, international assistance is a target.”
***Egypt Link***
Strong resistance to new aid to Egypt --- financial situation.
Omar Karmi, staff writer @ National, 8-2-2011 (US argues over foreign aid policy along with its debt problem, the National, p. www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-argues-over-foreign-aid-policy-along-with-its-debt-problem)
With the same acrimony it has debated the debt limit...Cairo for the foreseeable future," Mr Lieberman said