Eastwood: If DC Doesn't 'Give a Damn,' How Can We?
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Eastwood: How Can America Care If DC Doesn't?
Award-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood told CNBC that Washington should follow the bipartisan lead of Simpson-Bowles.
Hollywood legend and Republican supporter Clint Eastwood told CNBC that Washington gridlock is sending the nation racing towards another contentious debt deadline.
"It's almost like they don't give a damn," he said, in a "Squawk Box" interview that aired Friday.
The Oscar-winning director who's also known for his tough-guy roles asked rhetorically, "If they don't give a damn, why did they expect anybody else to?"
With the deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" barely in the rearview mirror, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders are on the clock again, scrambling to compromise on a package to replace the already-postponed automatic government spending cuts due to kick-in next month.
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Eastwood: Washington in a 'Political Quagmire'
Award-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood told CNBC it's "very disappointing" that American leaders "aren't stepping up."
Eastwood described it as "very disappointing" that so little has been accomplished. "The election's over. We should be moving ahead. The leaders aren't stepping up," and he said, "I think they have to hear from the public out there. And maybe the public is a little lackadaisical."
He was thrust into the political spotlight of the 2012 presidential election — first with the "Halftime in America" Super Bowl commercial he did that year for Chrysler; and then over the summer at the Republican National Convention with the now infamous "empty chair" bit.
Eastwood: Dismissed 'Invisible Obama' Controversy
"Seemed odd at the time. But, you know, I'm an odd person," award-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood joked on CNBC.
Addressing criticism from the right that the Chrysler ad seemed like an endorsement for President Obama, Eastwood said his only intention was to inspire. "If there's a momentum going — which everybody thought there might be at that particular time, at least in the auto industry — then let's keep it going."
He also dismissed the controversy surrounding the "invisible Obama" routine at the RNC. "Seemed odd at the time. But, you know, I'm an odd person," he laughed.
"One thing about getting into the senior status of life, like I am, you don't really care," he joked. "You just say what you say and then you get away with it."
which helps their spirit achieve mastery, she said. According to the information she received from "source" (i.e. the Akashic records), Earth was originally a paradise planet, but experienced a fall and moved into denser and denser vibrations. Many of the early spirit beings came here a mission to get the planet back on track, and a lot of them are reincarnated now in this lifetime, she reported. Our old world is dying as a new energy is in the process of manifesting on Earth, but we have to go through a kind of birth canal to get there, which causes a lot of unresolved issues to surface, she pointed out.
O'Grady stated that we are adjusting to new earth energies and it is going to manifest but it will take between 10-15 years. 
"The shift is happening on so many levels. It's happening to our biology's, our animal our plant life. It's seen under the oceans. There's a huge cleansing going on and everybody is feeling it."
Government Will Not Give Up Easily
O'Grady believes that we need to start growing more of our own food and come up with a new money system that replaces the current fiat currency. "I don't really see the end of money but I see a change in who controls it and what we do with it."
