If Dems won the election, why is ANYONE talking about a 3:1 ratio of spending cuts/tax increases???

[go west young man]

26. So true. Absolute fiction made up by Grover Nordquist

and the right wing corporate media that were trumpeting the term "fiscal cliff" before the election was over last tuesday night.
Why are we dems bothering to go down a road that those idiots are laying out for us? We should be driving our car down the road that says "reform the social safety net, drastically cut military spending to pay for it, and tax the rich to pay for it".

The age of corporatism over the common man needs to stop and people need to come first. Austerity hasn't worked in Europe. It hurt them. We need to expand programs to build up the citizenry. More pay for teachers, more bridge school and road projects, pursue IRS violations by political churches, reform and regulate wall street and banks, more help with loans.

It's time to quit reaching across the aisle to sociopaths and start investing in people. Personally I'd like to see whats left of the TARP money redistributed to the citizenry that paid for it come tax time. I'd also like BP to pay what they owe to the Redneck Riviera. The first thing Dems need to do is overcome the ridiculous filibuster rule and sideline Republicans for the long run. That dinosaur party needs to stay extinct.

Let's quit attempting to help revive a lost cause. We all know they are gonna cry, kick, and scream as they are dragged into the future anyway. They are right now attempting to ridiculously secede from the US because Obama is black. Why prolong the agony? It's time to get our blood up and lead! Why are we falling back on a status quo same old same old mindset? Now is the time to be grasping the future.

And lets ignore the made up cliff. We have nothing to lose by doing so and everything to gain. After all we make the money.