Finally a new post!: The "Fiscal Cliff" Deal

Hello Everyone,

First of all, I lied. Regular blog posts did not resume when I got home. It's been about a month now since I updated with anything meaningful, but that will change. I hope everyone had a safe and blessed Christmas and New Year.

We as a nation have certainly experienced a lot since I last published a post. We experienced the tragedy of the mass shooting in Newtown, we have seen constant fighting and bullshitting over the nation's finances and we have (from my perspective at least) fallen over the fiscal cliff. Actually that's not entirely true. We avoided the "worst" of the cliff, but I think I would've rather gone over instead of taking the "deal" we as a nation now face. That's just my personal feeling on it, feel free to disagree with me.

So what does this "deal" on the fiscal cliff mean? Well for one thing, I think it means the Republican Party has lost a lot of backbone. I think Boehner needs to do some serious soul searching to figure out why he made the decisions he made in deciding to go with this deal which is, essentially, yet another spending bill. A bill that the CBO says will add ANOTHER $3.9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. I applaud Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul for standing up for Republican values and for this nation and voting no to this deal that doesn't do anything to help our country in the long term.

I wonder if Congress as a whole wonders why its approval rating is so low these days? While I do firmly believe the fiscal cliff was artificially created during the summer of 2011 by President Obama and Harry Reid's refusal to get serious about our spending problem and actually pass a viable budget, here in early 2013 House Republicans have become complacent in passing a "deal" that raises taxes on at least 77% of households, a "deal" that adds $41 in taxes for every $1 in cuts!

On top of that, this "deal" gives Congress another two months before they have to even consider making cuts to the budget! That means at least two more months of the Harry Reid not allowing the Senate to pass a budget that will fix this country's problems! And for all we know, two months will pass and Obama and Reid will find some other way to put off dealing with actually reducing spending.

We may not have "gone off the cliff," but this country is still in very sad shape. I hate being so negative but it's the reality of the times we live in. Thanks for reading and God Bless America, she's going to need all the blessings she can get.

Jimmy Williams