What’s this I keep hearing about a “new year”? Didn’t that happen in September?
Seriously, 2012 has been a crazy year. The world was going to end… but it didn’t, because Erin got into Berkeley. Then the world was going to end… and then it didn’t because Obama was elected. Then the world was going to end… and then it didn’t because the Mayans got it wrong. Then the world was going to end because we were going off the fiscal cliff…
But it probably won’t. We’ll probably pay higher taxes for a few weeks until they straighten it out, and then they will realize they can now claim to have cut taxes instead of increasing them, and everyone will figure out how to resolve the problem. Of course, then the world will end when we have to raise the debt ceiling and the Republicans balk… and then the world will end when we have to do the appropriations bill and end up not decreasing the deficit… and then the world will end when a comet passes by the Earth that is brighter than the moon…
What was I saying again…
ETA: Speaking of the fiscal cliff, an article in the LA Times notes:
Details of the emerging “fiscal cliff” deal ricocheted through the Capitol on Monday, appearing to please almost no one from either political party, as President Obama urged negotiators toward a conclusion. A House vote appears unlikely on Monday, even if a deal is finished.
What the paper is failing to realize is that a deal where everyone is unhappy is a good thing. The means each side has compromised to the point where they don’t like it, but they can accept it. That’s how the country has always moved forward.
my new year was dec 21st. 🙂
The means each side has compromised to the point where they don’t like it, but they can accept it.
amen.