{"id":6446,"date":"2012-12-11T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2012-12-11T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:32:07","slug":"republicans-send-fiscal-cliff-counteroffer-to-obama-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/republicans-send-fiscal-cliff-counteroffer-to-obama-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To Obama &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett LoGiurato\treports that House Speaker John Boehner made a counter-offer in fiscal cliff negotiations. His spokesman Michael Steel issued a brief statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\"><p>&#8220;We sent the White House a counter-offer that would achieve tax and entitlement reform to solve our looming debt crisis and create more American jobs. As the Speaker said today, we\u2019re still waiting for the White House to identify what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the &#8216;balanced approach&#8217; he promised the American people. The longer the White House slow-walks this process, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fiscal-cliff-offer-plan-obama-boehner-taxes-increase-spending-cuts-republicans-2012-12'>Republicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To Obama &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett LoGiurato reports that House Speaker John Boehner made a counter-offer in fiscal cliff negotiations. His spokesman Michael Steel issued a brief statement: &#8220;We sent the White House a counter-offer that would achieve tax and entitlement reform to solve our looming debt crisis and create more American jobs. As the Speaker said today, we\u2019re still &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/republicans-send-fiscal-cliff-counteroffer-to-obama-business-insider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Republicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To Obama &#8211; Business Insider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[59,1973],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-john-boehner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Republicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To Obama - Business Insider - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To Obama - Business Insider - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brett LoGiurato reports that House Speaker John Boehner made a counter-offer in fiscal cliff negotiations. 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