Many people, families and businesses have reached their own fiscal cliff for hundreds of years. It's called going broke and they all realized it doesn't work when you SPEND more than you EARN.

Tighten up the straps and quit WASTING our money.

This will NOT repeat will NOT get better until Washington learns the difference between WANT and NEED. How can a welfare recipient buy cigarettes, beer, steaks, lobster, etc. when we pay for them and cannot afford them ourselves?

OBAMA'S ONLY PLAN IS 50 BILLION MORE IN STIMULUS, UNLIMITED DEBT CEILING HE CONTROLS AND RAISE TAXES ON

NOT JUST THE RICH BUT EVERYBODY BUT BY SAYING IT'S JUST THE RICH ONCE AGAIN HE'S LYING CAUSE ALL YOUR

TAXES ARE GOING UP NO MATTER WHAT FROM ENERGY FUEL FOOD REGULATIONS AND HIS DISMAL OBAMA DEATHCARE!

IF YOU VOTED FOR HIM WELL YOUR GONNA SEE WHY HE'S CALLED A SOCIALIST AND WHAT SOCIALISM REALLY IS!

Ironically Panetta mentioned military, border control and weather warnings as what will get cut if taxes aren't raised.   These are things the constitution authorizes the Federal government to do.  He failed to mention the 100's of billions the government spend on programs that are UNauthorized by the constitution such as Federal unemployment and other hand-out programs, wasted grant money, huge bloated  and redundant Federal agencies such the EPA, IRS, NEA, OSHA, FHA, Fannie Mae, foreign aid, etc,etc.

Before 1 dime in taxes are raised, all those cuts should be made.  The IRS would have to continue but it could be reduced to about 1% of what it is now if there was a simple flat tax with no deductions or loopholes.  Every state and locality already has an education system, the Federal government just duplicates what already exists.  Same is true with most Fed agencies and programs.

Next, the government should sell most of it's holdings to the private sector.  Hundreds of Federally owned buildings are sitting empty rotting at taxpayer's expense.  If sold, it would not only raise money but eliminate the maintenance costs.  The government also owns millions of acres of land that goes unused.  Vast tracts of land could be sold to the private sector.  Again it would not only raise enormous amounts of money, but states would collect property taxes from the owners raising revenue.

Finally, the Federal government should get completely out of the private sector which it has never had a constitutional right to do.  The role of the Federal government is to protect it's citizens from oppression, not to create it as it is now doing. 

After reading this article it looks like going over the cliff may be whats best for America. We need to cut spending and raise taxes on everyone to get our debt under controll. I hope no "deal"  is reached.

Blame the right, blame the left, and merrily, merrily , merrily, merrily, off the frickin' cliff !

So some will get their wish to have everyone pay their share of taxes, some will get their wish with automatic spending cuts to shrink government spending;

But if your 'wishes' put you in the unemployment line, you will only have 26 weeks- not 99 !

Consider that  in your calculations !

With out the States the Federal Government has no teeth

or

the Emperor has no clothes

JOIN THE SECESSION MOVEMENT

LET THE FEDS KNOW

"WE MEAN BUSINESS"

When we are driven over the Fiscal Cliff

We have to secede to Save the Republic

Secede to get out from the liberal progressive Federal Reserve Charter

The other option is not acceptable

Finacial enslavement by foreign banks called the federal reserve.

Not only does Obama want new taxes but the UN wants $100 trillion in new taxes to be given to the Central banks.

Secede to save our finacial future or your children will wake up broke