Well, if you are reading this then chances are we have survived the Mayan apocalypse. If we have survived the Mayan apocalypse, I am sure we will also survive the “Fiscal Cliff” that they keep talking about.
Basically, if congress hasn’t reached some kind of an agreement with Obama by January 1st, we “go over the cliff” which just means that the Bush tax cuts get reversed, and there are some cuts in government spending, which Republicans keep saying they want, so it really should be no problem.
They are not going to reach any kind of an agreement. In fact, they are now on Christmas vacation and it’s not even clear when they’ll be back. Despite Obama’s willingness to totally sell out the middle class and extend tax breaks for people who clear a quarter of a million bucks in a year while cutting Social Security and forcing elderly poor people to eat dog food, they still don’t want to deal. Now they say we should keep the tax breaks for anybody making less than a million a year. I think it’s safe to say they were not negotiating in good faith in the first place.
But I think it’s interesting that today is the date of the Mayan apocalypse and TEDTalks this weekend is all about how to defend earth against a giant meteor strike, like the one that killed all the dinosaurs.
I’m not all that up on the science, so I’m not really qualified to weigh in on nuclear vs. non-nuclear defenses or stuff like that. However, I totally agreed with the speakers logic. First, we have to find them. Then, we have to push them off course. We have to. There is no alternative.
We can argue until doomsday (quite literally) about gun control, the Middle East, abortion or tax rates but if an asteroid hits us (and one will, eventually) all that becomes irrelevant right away.
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