Reserve is trying new ways of support, somewhat half-heartedly. Whatever it does, America is currently on course for the most stringent fiscal tightening of any big economy in 2012, as temporary tax cuts and unemployment insurance expire at the end of this year. That could change if Congress came to its senses, passed Barack Obama's jobs plan and agreed on a medium-term deficit-reduction deal by November. If Democrats and Republicans fail to hash out a compromise on the deficit, draconian spending cuts will follow in 2013. For all the tirades against the Europeans, America's economy risks being pushed into recession by its own fiscal policy—and by the fact that both parties are more interested in positioning themselves for the 2012 elections than in reaching the compromises needed todetermination
she “profited” from the scam and that her twenty-four-month sentence was greater
than necessary in light of certain mitigating factors. We disagree and affirm the
judgment of the district court.

       In 2013, Ryser pleaded guilty to two federal offenses: health-care fraud and
filing a false tax return. Her advisory sentencing range under the United States
Sentencing Guidelines was thirty to thirty-seven months of imprisonment. The
district court declined to impose a term of imprisonment and instead sentenced Ryser
to three years of probation.

        In 2016, before her probation ended, Ryser was accused of violating conditions
of her probation by engaging in an illegal lottery scam. Through the scam, other
individuals, who were not identified, called numerous elderly victims and duped the
victims into believing