Tax increases and spending cuts both promised by President Obama’s fiscal commission | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

All this is is political "cover" for Obama. You watch - in December, when they report ( how clever the timing is ) they will recommend all kinds of tax increases and Obama will say - It wasn't me, I kept my promise - it was THEM.....

Tax increases and spending cuts both promised by President Obama’s fiscal commission | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment:

“The pig has died.”

In such memorable fashion (and no, it wasn’t a reference to “Lord of the Flies”), former Sen. Alan Simpson Tuesday kicked off the U.S. government’s effort to keep itself from drowning in debt.

Simpson’s point was that America is running out of money. Simpson, one of two co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission, told the 17 other members that during his career in the Senate, his constituents often told him to “bring home the bacon.”"