Let's Jump Together!

THE FISCAL CLIFF  is dead ahead, four days and counting down, and still i say, so what? Let's go over the damned thing. Hell, let's do it with courage, knowing that it won't be nearly as painful as we might imagine.

And it might be just what the doctor ordered, in terms of stabilizing the currency (the american dollar, almighty), and creating universal, stable prosperity. After all, that's what really matters in any system of currency; that it be stable, and strong. Far better to strengthen the current system than suffer the painful birth pangs of a new one.

Raising taxes on everybody, and drastically cutting everything, is exactly what we need to do, whether we want to admit it or not. And that's exactly what this so called fiscal cliff does, automatically, on january first, if the government doesn't intervene. At this point, the government appears incapable of intervening, in anything, including walking and chewing gum simultaneously.

At this very moment both sides are calculating the probably political damage, and to whom it is most likely to acrue, before deciding whether to offer any last minute compromises. If both sides come to believe that the other will suffer much pmore politically by going off the cliff...

...then off the cliff we'll go. Any one who does not understand that either hasn't paid attention to american politics over the past thirty years, or isn't american, which is far more excusable. In the cut throat world american politics, its political careers first, country second.

The republicans and democrats both must have thought themselves to be oh so terribly clever when this whole fiscal cliff deal was struck a couple of years ago, in the midst of our interminable squabbling.

Both sides must have thought it could use the device to stare down and force the other side to blink at just the right (politically expedient) moment, and now, the silly idiots are about to incompentently, uncontrollably shove us over a budget cliff dreaded by all,  utterly powerless to prevent their own timebomb from exploding, and killing their political careers.

That's what'll happen if we're lucky; we'll go over the cliff, survive it, gradually learn to accept and then to like it, get back on our national economic feet, and run all these incredibly incompetent politicians outta town.