Everyone seems to be commenting on this "deal" that "avoided the fiscal cliff." So I guess I will comment, too.
Well; it's a corrupt political system created by a rotten economic system with a bunch of Wall Street chosen politicians wheeling and dealing behind our backs. They are trying to save capitalism in its most barbaric and cannibalistic stage of imperialism and there is no light at the end of the tunnel because the cliff collapsed just as they made their way through the tunnel leaving everyone except the 1% behind to suffer the consequences of a system on the skids to oblivion; a system that should have been replaced years ago--- a system that survived only because McCarthyite political repression hammered Wall Street's opposition: we, the people.
It's the backroom wheeling and dealing we haven't heard about presenting the real danger because in our so-called "democracy" that is more myth than reality, the austerity measures Obama and the Republicans agreed to are coming down the pike from behind us as we are all looking the other way trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
A system broken beyond repair; a lousy deal for everyone except the Wall Street 1% and no end of wars financed with austerity in sight.
No need to worry though; the over-paid well-heeled upper middle class muddle-headed intellectuals pretending to be liberals, progressives and leftists are convincing everyone to go out into the streets--- not to protest like the Greeks--- but to celebrate Obama's re-election victory... and the cost of the shindig is being put on our tab.
And what do these over-paid well-heeled upper middle class muddle-headed intellectuals pretending to be liberals, progressives and leftists tell us hoping we won't spoil Obama's re-election "victory" celebration? The deal could have been worse.
"Worse" is what is coming as a result of this "deal."
A good deal for Wall Street; a bad deal for the rest of us.
The Wall Street bankers will smile as they take away your home and tell you to "have a good day."