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“The Premarital Planner” author Vikki Ziegler on how lawmakers can improve their negotiating skills to reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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I these days -- the leaders of congress just remind you of an old married couple lay -- meantime I'm.
Remains the most optimistic person to this down about we've got some serious differences tell us what you want that's what I say to them.
We can't read their minds and are going to make a proposal for them.
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Not to mention -- their relationship with President Obama these irreconcilable differences -- why Washington remains oceans apart in their quest to strike a deal.
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It's kind of what it sounds like I mean -- -- my kids fighting but it's the same thing right.
He said she said nobody wants to give in what -- they did right everybody you put your head in the sand yes at.
-- yet a staunch approach you know what -- you have these non starters and you say okay well what's gonna happen we gonna go off the fiscal cliff is it you know they'll mounted a -- somebody's got to do something.
Once -- -- the move forward there's got to be.
Up submission somewhere you have to really start thinking about what's the end -- Really they both happy ending -- of people right added battery life I think they it's supposed to gonna look at the preamble -- -- we the people of the United States.
So yes we do have the end -- in -- so as we understand what the commonalities are is to cut spending you know that we understand once fighting over tax increases in tax -- I get that.
What can they come together with is a bipartisan entitlement reform.
What is -- it is there something that they can agree on and if they did so then you can start.
You know taking those pieces of the puzzle.
And fitting then he's you know what's so interesting to meet much -- -- a bitter ugly divorce and I'm sure you've seen hundreds of them -- they might and they play and they by the end of using every dollar they have at the end there's not affect more than presents nothing left at the end of the day and I that's almost how I think.
We theorize that the American people watching this.
They're just wasting our money while they're fighting right absolutely and where has everyone been the last two years this is currently this just cracked and not act and that's the biggest problem so it's like can you get to a compromise that everyone feels okay -- -- -- was believe a really good compromises for both parties think they lost nobody one nobody loses it's an actual compromise and a resolve.
An amicable resolving I don't know I think sitting here watching the news sitting in the -- portals what's -- right but -- -- -- but you've been watching this what have you read any glaring mistakes that -- made in the compromising process.
Well I mean I think people are getting it from a viewer's standpoint we're saying okay you're not -- all your cards.
On -- going behind closed doors can go right -- right but we want transparency.
We want to see what's going on but sometimes with tough issues are complex issues it's not exactly do you want a house or not would have put on the marketing in a -- me out -- very complicated matters were legislature -- and perhaps -- amended.
Sometimes you gotta go behind closed doors and not get out sometimes it's best if we don't see but I think on the and the grand scheme we -- to really know what's going on selecting.
That's one issue don't even really know what's happening.
I mean there's a lot of -- I don't care how many argue we have no idea what's going on right now I think we're kind of on an overload of information do we really understand what's going on an -- on December 31.
When there's a deadline and if in fact there is no resolution.
What happens major impact to all of us so -- -- really were -- concerned so.
In any negotiation.
You don't want to show you card you wanna kind of come out -- but also want to be -- position to say I'm going to step back and I don't know either side understands if either is going to cave in at all.
That's the biggest challenge I think we face and what I've been seeing and especially in light of a matrimonial case someone at the end of the day and night our.
You have to say am -- ready to.
He can't resolve this or do I wanna go to the mat and I never believer of the right now because you know what we go to the -- and that means going over the cliff.
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