In response to:  Merry Christmas: This Tax Increase is for You,
America  SpaceVegetable Wrote: Dec 01, 2012 2:12 PM Now the
Democrats are calling the fiscal cliff a myth created by
Republicans to scare the people. Seriously, I can't make this
stuff up. I get newsletters from MoveOn and other liberal
organizations (because I once registered as a Democrat so I
could vote in the Dem primaries). These emails are great
entertainment, when they aren't making my blood boil with the
utter nonsense they're pushing.  Let’s cut right to the end of
the story: Ordinary people have already tumbled off the
precipice.  There will be no dramatic rescue at the height of
the tension, with crashing, ominous music turning to a sunshine
ditty, a government handout straining to reach you, to save you
from tumbling over the lip of the cliff.  Instead the government
is going to intentionally bump into you, making it look like an
accident, head turned away, mumbling an apology, much like a
pick-pocket does in a crowd, with the object