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over the next forty-eight hours uh... my hope is that people recognize that
uh... regardless of
partisan differences
our top priority has to be to make sure that taxes on middle class families do
not go up that would hurt our economy bentley
we can get that done
democrats and republicans both say they don't want
uh... taxes to go up on middle class families that's something we all agree
on
if we can get that done that takes a big bite
out of the fiscal cliff it avoids the worst outcomes
people start saying that on january first
this problem still hasn't been solved
that we haven't seen the kind of deficit reduction that we could have had head
the republicans been willing to take the deal that i gave them if they say
people's taxes have gone up which means the screen sumer spending is going to be
depressed
uh... then obviously that's gonna have an adverse a reaction the markets
they say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deaths
in the service way but the way they're behaving is that there are only priority
is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are protected that
seems to be there only
overriding unifying theme and and at some point
uh... i think what's going to be important is is that they listen to the
american people