The Liberal Take On The Fiscal Cliff

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/12/04/the-liberal-take-on-the-fiscal-cliff

Liberals on the fiscal cliff. The White House is negotiating tough. We’ll hear the liberal view of the cliff and its meaning.

Washington’s in a lather about the fiscal cliff. So is Wall Street. So, if markets tell the story, may be the world.
The President’s put out his solution. Yesterday, the Republicans put their bid on the table.

But there is a view out there that says the whole cliff is a hustle. A liberal view that says it’s an artificial crisis, built to stampede Americans into surrendering entitlements that don’t need surrendering. Paul Krugman argues, go over the cliff. He’s with us today. More, too. But what about the deficit?

This hour, On Point: liberals on the fiscal cliff.

-Tom Ashbrook