“I’m never going to give up on making the changes necessary to get our deficit and our debt under control because if we don’t the future for our kids and grandkids is going to be pretty bleak,” Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters today in Washington. “If you look at what happened with the supercommittee, it’s not a whole lot different than what happened in the conversations between President Obama and myself and Senator Reid and Senator McConnell and myself later in the summer. There’s got to be a balance to this if it’s going to happen, [but] both of our views of what is balanced still have room between us.”
Conservative Blogger
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Boehner Sees ‘Hell of a Lot Worse’ Economy Without Deficit Deal
House Speaker John Boehner today warned that the U.S. economy will get “a hell of a lot worse” if Congress fails to address the country’s long-term debt woes, but he acknowledged that Republicans and Democrats must “find more common ground if we’re going to be successful.”
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