Tea Baggers cause S&P to lower italy's credit rating!!
 

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-19/italy-s-credit-rating-cut-one-level-to-a-by-s-p-as-government-debt-mounts.html


That darn Tea Party is ruining EVERYBODY'S credit!!





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What about the tea baggers caused Italy to be downgraded?

Uhhhhh..... It's called irony. :)




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how is it ironic? the republicans and tea party were cited by the rating agency themselves as a reason for the US downgrade. your dictionary must have a different definition of irony then mine.

You're blaming the innocent person who called 911 for the fire itself?

:upsidedow

:Oh crap

Really? Perhaps you show me that part of the s&p report

So why did it happen?ha If you listen to the party elite and their cheerleaders in the media, it was the recalcitrant Tea Party and those pesky House Republicans who dared to stand up against the fiscal irresponsibility of Congress and Washington?s unrestrained spending habits that caused our credit downgrade.ha Truth be told, even Standard & Poor?s report recognizes the politicization of the debt-ceiling increase as one of the reasons for the downgrade.ha To blame the Tea Party representatives so myopically, however, is to miss the more important reasons for the downgrade.ha The S&P report clearly blamed the insufficiency of the debt deal in curbing U.S. governmental spending for the downgrade. haIn that regard, the S&P report stated ?that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the decade.?
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Not content to leave it at that, the S&P report commented more pointedly on the need to decrease spending significantly after warning government officials that a $4 trillion dollar spending cut was needed to avert a downgrade:
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?Despite this year?s wide-ranging debate, in our view, the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge, and, as we see it, the resulting agreement fell well short of the comprehensive fiscal consolidation program that some proponents had envisaged until quite recently. Republicans and Democrats have only been able to agree to relatively modest savings on discretionary spending while delegating to the Select Committee decisions on more comprehensive measures. It appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options. In addition, the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability.?
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The opinion of Standard & Poor?s purports to be clear: ?that elected officials remain wary of tackling the structural issues required to effectively address the rising U.S. public debt burden?.?ha In the report, S&P expressly ?takes no position on the mix of spending and revenue measures that Congress and the Administration might conclude is appropriate for putting the United States? hafinances on a sustainable footing.?ha The full text of the S&P Report can be found at http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-sp-downgrade-of-us-rating-...

Do you always just repost crap you read on rightface ?

The outlook on the long-term rating is negative. As our downside alternate fiscal scenario illustrates, a higher public debt trajectory than we currently assume could lead us to lower the long-term rating again. On the other hand, as our upside scenario highlights, if the recommendations of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction?independently or coupled with other initiatives, such as the lapsing of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for high earners lead to fiscal consolidation measures beyond the minimum mandated, and we believe they are likely to slow the deterioration of the government?s debt dynamics, the long-term rating could stabilize at ?AA+?.

?Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.


http://www.standardandpoors.com/rati...=1245316529563

those bastards are killing the greeks too.

The Tea Party started the fire.

S&P themselves stated that the US downgrade was because of Republican's holding out on a debt ceiling increase. It was a publicity stunt and they ultimately voted to raise it, but S&P didn't like how the process was handled.

lol.......