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How Will the Election Affect the Deficit, Your Taxes and Social Security?

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by: Tamara Lytle, from: AARP Bulletin, December 1, 2010

En español |Washington's new divided government faces the tall order of reining in spending while creating jobs. Republicans and Tea Party activists, on one side of the divide, and President Obama and his traumatized Democrats on the other now confront a fraught political environment. The next two years pose high-stakes choices. How will the politicians respond to voter demands? Will they work across party lines or will they hunker down for a bruising 2012 campaign? … Back to Article

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