Dive ... Dive! — Damn the torpedoes ...

SEE HERE Fiscal Cliff?  You mean like all the other stupid fiscal things that the government has done in my life time that has blown the national debt up to the size of the Gross Domestic Product?  Is that the kind of responsibility we're being called to practice again?  The government is addicted to spending ever cent they get and 40 cents more that they don't get.  This is a track to guaranteed ruin.  The way you treat an addict is not to believe their lies and keep feeding them more junk.  It's cold turkey time.  That means their will be a crash, but not nearly so bad as the crash that an overdose would inflict.