what fiscal cliff?

Does anybody give a rat's ass about the fiscal cliff?  Our economic survival has been on the brink for so long it's become a permanent part of our culture.  The people in charge of preventing this inevitable disaster are the same people who got us in this mess in the first place.  Doing the same things, the same way, with the expectation of different results is a classic example of insanity and watching these Washington guys do it is like watching Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber play a game of chess.

We all know what's going to happen.  They'll raise the debt limit to a quadrillion dollars and tax the shit out of everyone while Obama flushes a few billion for another useless stimulus package.

Taxing the rich won't help.  They already pay 30% and that's already way too much.  Shifting the burden to the already over-taxed working force would be like putting a band-aid on a shotgun wound.

One thing we can all count on... The democrats and republicans in congress will compromise and come up with a plan with the worst elements from both sides.  By compromising, no one is at fault and both sides can blame the other while our economic ship goes down in flames.

Perhaps the republicans should simply back off and let the democratic congress go ahead with their plan and take full responsibility of the outcome.  If the plan fails and we go over the cliff, the republicans will have gloating rights for generations and have the option to implement any plan they want.  If the democratic economic plan works we all benefit.

But that's not what all this is about.  This fiscal cliff business is just another story line in the Washington reality show and the writers of this soap opera have as much interest in solving our economic mess as killing off Allan Alda in the third season of M*A*S*H.  It's interactive television brought to you by the international banker elite, only we don't have any control over the script.

Cliffhanger is a term used as a gimmick in serials to create suspense at the end of a chapter.  It seems our latest fiscal cliff is nothing more than the same old, worn out cliffhanger Washington uses every time their ratings drop.  The problem is, no one cares anymore.  This gimmick is so old it has whiskers.  Even the name, fiscal cliff, sounds like something from a Hardy Boys mystery.  After the countless bailouts, uninterrupted wars, forced Obamacare, and failed stimulus packages, the best this fiscal cliffhanger can generate from the masses is a collective yawn.  This whole political reality show is nothing but one bummer after another with no relief in sight.

If you want to fix this broken down economic system, try looking at systems that work.  Take a look at Libya before the uprising.  No homeless, no poverty, free healthcare, 14 cents a gallon for gas, no debt, no interest rates, no taxes, and no international bankers. 

Too bad Libya was so un-American.