In an interview regarding the country's so-called "fiscal cliff", Adam Stulberg, co-director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) at the Nunn School, said the idea was to make the consequences of doing nothing so great that Congress and the president would have to act. "Our politicians have not really understood the game of chicken very well," he said.
Source: Philadelphia Daily News, November 8, 2012