Super committee

Over the next two weeks the news will be filled with articles about the super committee. Recall that the super committee is a group of 12 congressmen, six from the senate and six from the house half Republican and half Democrat. Their job is to cut 1.2 trillion from the budget and if they fail to do so there will be automatic cuts across the board, half from defense and half from domestic. What is not reported is that the cuts will not take place until 2013 which means after the next election which means nothing will be done. After the election no matter who is president the whole program will be re-evaluated and most likely dumped. The purpose of this committee was to give the impression that congress was doing something but everyone knows that it was just an excuse to do nothing until after the election.