IT IS NOT A FISCAL CLIFF. It is the way things were back when we had a Middle class. It is a shame that the Democratic Liberals have to push for going to the past times prior to the Bush era. The Republican Conservative solution is: Staying where we have been for the last 10 years; War, Hate, Fear and Pessimism ( opposite of Hope and Change ); The Rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer; Negect and Sabotage of the Education, Health and Environmental systems in the name of lowered "Spending" ( running the country ) ; Disdain for "We the People" and "The Greater Good"

TAX THE RICH OVER THE CLIFF

There are two groups being entertained by this... One includes the CFR, half of which is defense contractor executives (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GE, Raytheon). These people provide funding and write the foreign policy scripts for congress. The other is the Rothschild banksters, which I think you will find own all of Israel, which is effectively a surrogate nation of theirs, conceived 250 years ago by Mayer Rothschild and originally formally scripted in 1898.

These are the two biggest problems in America today. One is lobbying, which began in the Ford administration, and which, in the name of corporations "being able to have a say about government", has effectively turned the US into a country where the most money has the most voting power. The most radical extension of this is the 501c type PAC, which can receive any size donations and nobody knows who it is. Dollars are the new votes.

The other is the private central money supply. I think you will find that the US Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that lends 99.7% of all US money to the US, which must be paid back with interest and printing fees. You will also find that congressional investigations in 1976 and 1983 showed this bank to be a line item in relation to the N M Rothschild bank of England.

These are the two biggest problems. The banksters are being and have been fought by Ron Paul for 30 years, and the matter went to the house floor on the 25th, but I have to go check what happened. The other is LOBBYING - and corporate America, whose offices aren't even in America anymore, is using money to tell the US federal government what to do. Well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall, and LOBBYING/PACs is it's name. The American people need to have a revolution against what is destroying it in virtually every industry today, such as defense, agriculture, oil, metals, you name it - every industry, and it is against LOBBYISTS (period).

I think Romney is really serving these kinds of interests most unabashedly. AIPAC is big money in the US and Israel wants the US to conduct a couple more wars in the ME (Syria and Iran). For the past 16 months NATO and CIA-led armed men have been flowing into Syria from Turkey, Jordan and even Lebanon, funded by US taxpayer dollars to say the least... Find Wesley Clark from 2007 on video... They were given orders to attack "7 countries in 5 years". Find John Perkins, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" to understand the model of US imperialism from 1953 to the present day.

Cheers, Mark

The Grandest Weasel wants to be the savior of the USA?

Woe to the people who unleash this rich asshole upon the masses and shame to the misguided who voted him in.

That is unless you're a rich asshole too. Then rejoice: you can continue to completely avoid paying your proper share of taxes.

With so much unaccountable money in the system, it is conceivable that Mr. Romney could actually win. In fact, the level of understanding which so many voters lack is disheartening. In reading "letters -to-the-editor" pieces in 2 newpapers as well as the comments posted on line, it seems that far too many of us fail to grasp what is going on and how the system works. That Mr. Romney is and empty suit is a given. That he is the water carrier for the folks on Wall Street is a no brainer. What he actually stands for is an enigma. Nevertheless, he remains tied with the president in most polls. This before the bulk of the PAC money has begun to flow into the race.
While it's easy to say that we deserve the government we get, I wonder if our children and grand-children also deserve such a fate. That a Romney administration with a GOP controlled Congress will bring an end to what we think of as democracy is a forgone conclusion. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to our uninformed brethern, democracy is limited to the "right to vote". It does not seem to matter much that many who are likely to vote in ways objectionable to the elite are increasingly disenfranchised. Those who dare to speak the truth are drowned out by the volume of money on the right. The "main-stream media" are so cowed by the weight of the ad dollars from the PACs and right wing dominated corporations that they fail to point out lies and falsehoods and simply quote "he said, she said" comments as though that constituted fair and balanced journalism.
While I am not one to promote other peoples work, I think it important to suggest that readers of this blog make it a point to read the well written and insightful work of Christopher Hayes, "Twilight of The Elites: America After Meritocracy". The decline of our once great nation appears to be upon us. If we fail to see the signs or fail to act upon them, the consequences are all but inevitable. It is time for Progressives to stand up and be heard.

The republican party is going to go the way of the dodo bird in the future. The main bulk of the gop are white people who are older. blacks and hispanics are the lowest educated and fastest growing segment of our population and the majority between 18 and 24 do not pay income tax. So why would this class vote for a party that would reduce income taxes that they do not pay and cut welfare benefits that they collect. The gop brought this on themselves by allowing mass immigration of immigrants who use benefits and cutting taxes that took millions off the tax payer rolls. I could go on but you get the gist