Political affairs expert Andy Friedman who appears on CNBC's Squawk Box made a stop in the Y-city Wednesday evening.

He spoke to clients of Merrill Lynch at Ohio University-Zanesville on the state of the fiscal crisis in Washington D.C., especially the big decisions that affect all Americans like taxes and entitlement costs such as Medicare and Social Security.

"All of the plans that have been put forth that have managed to get through Congress do not attack either...