America's Transparent Fiscal Cliff Mirror

      Where is this fiscal cliff I keep hearing Americans talk about?

     Does anybody really know? Can anyone show me a picture or even define what exactly is a fiscal cliff?

     Over the past nine months, I have traveled through twenty-seven different states throughout the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean in search of a landmark I'm unable to locate.

     It doesn't exist. No one can offer concrete facts and figures. And there within lies the problem.

     We don’t even have a starting point in the debate. The argument should have taken place years ago.

     The real issue here, ladies and gentlemen, is transparency.

     Apathy and ignorance dominate the American public. Fiscal cliff, you ask?

     It’s a catch phrase. Two buzz words. Talk points, as they call them today.

     What you need to know is The U. S. is in debt for $16 trillion dollars and counting. Such a debt obviously doesn’t occur overnight. In general terms, less than half the population is working to support the remaining human beings wandering around our country. That’s a huge problem.

     So why do we talk about this fiscal cliff like it’s Santa Claus’ business.  Because it might as well be. We didn’t care when the national debt started, didn’t pay attention when it rose to monumental levels, and even now we aren’t talking about realistic ways and means of getting ourselves out of delinquency and financial ruin.

     Maybe the debt will just go away with the winter weather pattern.

     NOT!

     We are all to blame for this miserable blizzard that has hit the American economy and the idea that something concrete will be done to solve the upcoming crisis is as Bob Dylan would say, “Blowin’ in the wind.”

     When was the last time you really believed the public had a say in what the national government does and does not do? When was the last time you got involved? How difficult would it be to get straight answers about the fact and figures?

     The answer is right before the American public’s eyes, and we are too busy blowing and powdering our noses to see it. We’re letting our rights, power, and financial welfare fade away and swirl down the drain with each passing day.

     The United States Constitution protects us all. We still have rights. It’s guaranteed. Yet we allow ourselves to be trampled over by greedy lobbyists, selfish corporate entities, and an arrogant Wall Street gang that make Bonnie and Clyde look like angels.

     If you had valuable equipment in the garage, you’d make sure the doors and windows were locked each night before you went to sleep at night. We leave the doors wide open to local, state, and federal thieves. Then we make excuses why we can’t close the windows or shut the light off. Then we wonder why the cars and valuables have gone missing by morning.

     Americans have been feeling the current financial heat and economic stress for half a decade now. We haven’t heard any concrete answers for our unemployment, housing, taxation, and banking woes. Yet the wizards in the know play with numbers. Continue to play with numbers to furnish their needs ahead of the people they work for. And we fear China? We have enough to fear right here at home in Washington, D. C.

     Records show six billion dollars was spent on the most expensive election in America’s history in 2012, including some $129 million in completely anonymous funds, thanks to a ridiculous U. S. Supreme Court decision. And yet, after one of the most grueling, negative, and polarized elections in modern day history, what really happened?

     The same players are in the same hot spots. President Barack Obama was re-elected, perhaps as the lesser of two evils. House Majority Leader John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi returned to their cozy power spots as the 113^th Congress opened. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faced off against Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over the fiscal cliff myth with basically the same arguments they have been arguing over for more than a decade.

      “We must restore the American public’s confidence,” chanted Pelosi, referring to the fact that the 112^th Congress was rated as the worst ever by the American public .

     Then Pelosi went out and ordered a photo of the women in the 113^th Congress super-imposed or “doctored up” to include four women who weren’t at the photo shoot on Capitol Hill. She ordered staff to throw their individual photos into the group shot, if they were posing along with the fifty-seven other women who made up the historic largest female contingent.

     That must have been some restoration project.

     We need open debates in America. No more backroom deals. Live discussions. Facts and figures intelligent minds can understand. Formulas that actually make logical sense.

     So I’m shouting out, via a blog, for something new that should actually be an old way to educate. Transparency. Open documents. Use of the internet to give us money trails for government finances that the real and true bosses, the American public, should be able to review at their leisure.

     There are easy ways to achieve this goal. It’s a silent revolution. You can read on as I enclose some of the ways to get involved. It’s all free reading and doesn’t really matter to me how involved you get.

     After all, it’s your dollars and your debt.