Guest Post: Recalling The Start Of America’s Fiscal Eclipse

Submitted by Ben Tanosborn of Tanosborn.com, Recalling The Start Of America’s Fiscal Eclipse As 2012 was coming to an end, Americans became concerned with what was referred to as the “fiscal cliff”... while the unrecognized problem all along has been what might be more appropriately called the “fiscal eclipse.” Once again, political and popular aversion to face economic reality won the day, and the illusory fiscal cliff was replaced by other financial peaks that soon must be climbed, each of them offering at the very top not a view of economic prosperity but yet another precipice inviting Americans to jump. As much as we in the US blame our politicians for the lack of compromise and resolve, combined with a short term approach to the nation’s ills, these politicians are but our reflection in the mirror.  These politicians we elect and reelect, and claim to profoundly di...