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451La “super commission”, surnommée “Super Congrès”, désignée à la suite de l’accord sur la dette entre le gouvernement US et le Congrès en août dernier pour détailler des réductions budgétaires de $1.200 milliards, semble devoir annoncer son échec. Cette affaire est particulièrement importante pour le Pentagone puisque, en cas d’échec, il est prévu une réduction budgétaire automatique de $500 milliards sur 5 ans pour la défense. (Actuellement la dette du gouvernement US dépasse les $15.000 milliards.)
Plusieurs sources indiquent un échec probable pour la date butoir du 23 novembre. The Independent du 21 novembre 2011 écrit notamment :
«The committee attempting to craft a bipartisan solution to America's debt crisis is likely to bow to the inevitable today by declaring failure to reach consensus on how best to restore public finances.
»With a deal needing to be ratified by Wednesday, the “Super Committee” of six Democrats and six Republicans has until this morning to break its deadlock. Failure will trigger $1.2 trillion in cuts to public spending. Half will come from the defence budget, which Republicans are anxious to protect; the other half will affect programmes beloved of Democrats.
»Neither side has yet been prepared to compromise core values: Republicans are opposed to tax increases; Democrats dislike spending cuts. Meanwhile, the national debt, now $15 trillion, continues to rise by $1.4 trillion a year. With federal taxes at 14 per cent of GDP, their lowest in modern history, polls indicate that three-quarters of Americans favour a compromise that will see the defecit cut through an even mixture of tax increases and cuts.»
Truthout.org détaille, ce 20 novembre 2011, plusieurs sources et déclarations allant dans le même sens d’une probabilité d’échec. (Ce 20 novembre 2011 également, CNN a annoncé qu'un membre de l'équipe travaillant pour les parlementaires de la “super commission” avait officieusement déclaré que l'échec était une chose acquise.)
«Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the Democratic co-chair of the congressional super committee, said this morning on CNN’s State of the Union that the super committee charged with crafting a deficit reduction plan remains stuck on the Bush tax cuts.
»“There is one sticking divide, and that is the issue of what I call shared sacrifice, where everybody contributes in a very challenging time for our country,” Murray told CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” “That’s the Bush tax cuts, and making sure that any kind of package includes everybody coming to the table and the wealthiest of Americans, those who earn over a million dollars every year, have to share, too. And that line in the sand, we haven’t seen any Republicans willing to cross yet,” Murray said. […]
»Previously on Fox News, Murray’s Republican counterpart Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) attacked Democrats on the committee for failing to negotiate about the privatization of Medicare…»
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