The Abyss

SO HERE WE GO, over the fiscal cliff, T minus six weeks and counting. What nonsense. What shameful, game playing theatre. Its all about a big game of chicken, I dare you, and these people oughta be ashamed of themselves.

The psychology of it is rather murky, yet vaguely familiar, and indeed, almost recognizable. We won't bend, you won't bend, so, let's see now, let's see just how far we're willing to push it, how close to the edge we can get, before one of us blinks, says uncle, caves in, and so forth.

Certainly something that should be beneath the dignity of the government of the united states of america. So now our noble leaders have set this deadly little trap for us, and we are supposed to fret and fume, rant and rave, wail and gnash, while they courageously save us at the last minute, and get brownie points. But screw them.

Just who do these gutless politicians think they are, anyway, playing games with our national economic destiny? Its beyond reprehensible, its cowardly, their blatant refusal to take responsibility for the mess they themselves made.

The terms of the previous agreement, under which on january first a new budget will automatically go into effect unless a superceding agreement is reached between now and then, are rather harsh. They are, ironically, probably exactly what the country needss to dig itself out of its fiscal hole.

Upon landing at the bottom of the fiscal cliff we the people would find our military with considerably less funding, along with numerous other federal expenditures, including all the familiar entitlements. And, for us all, income taxes would become considerably higher. Rather extreme, really. When our guys in D.C. play chicken, they play hard.

The sad part is there is no way in hell that anyone in congress would even come close to having the moral and political courage to do all this budget cutting and tax raising straight up, uf front, honestly, even though it is precisely what probably needs to be done.

So bring on the fiscal cliff! Let us plunge headlong into  the abyss. Obama will veto any bill which does not included tax hikies for the wealthy only. Good for him. Like Friedrich Nietzsche said "If thou gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee".We've been looking long and hard. Let's just go ahead and jump.