With tax breaks and subsidies effecting
all Americans set to automatically expire on
January 1st, the economy was predicted to fall
back into a recession unless lawmakers in
Washington came to a deal to avoid it. Quite
typically, an agreement was reached at the very
LAST minute that resolved the more pressing
taxation issues of the "fiscal cliff," but
failed to address the national debt. At least we
can breathe a sigh of relief on a personal
level.
I thought I'd incorporate the new theatrical
version of "Les Miserables," seeing it
deals with parallel themes of economic desperation and
responding to government corruption. If the farm
subsidy had expired and the price of milk
doubled, we would have seen a lot of Jean
Valjeans stalking the dairy aisle