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{"id":569,"date":"2012-12-31T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2012-12-31T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:50:16","slug":"mmem-vol-8-issue-47-this-cliff-is-at-the-bottom-of-a-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol.8  Issue 47 &#8211; This cliff is at the bottom of a ravine."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #ff6600; float: right; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: rightfont-family:Arial, Helvetica, Georgia; width: 150px;\"><span style=\"color: brown;\">I can&#8217;t <\/span>get worked <strong>up about this <\/strong>issue <span style=\"color: brown;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: khaki; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 80px; line-height: 60px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 5px; padd$1 ing-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #bdb76b; border-style: solid;\">H<\/span>appy New Year right? Fiscal Cliff. Boy, I don&#8217;t even know where to begin on the list of 100+ reasons I can&#8217;t get worked up about this issue. Honestly, I&#8217;ve been worked up about it for 30 years now and that all started when we talked about the cause of such a thing as a Fiscal Cliff which was the National Debt. No, not just an annual Budget Deficits, that&#8217;s important too, I mean that&#8217;s how you add to your National Debt of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-570\" alt=\"YK2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/YK2013-300x271.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/YK2013-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/YK2013.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, I guess I feel like this Fiscal Cliff is a speck located somewhere on the vast uninhabitable floor of the $16+ Trillion Debt Cravasse in which we find outselves now. Figuring out a way to pay what we can and get loans for what we can&#8217;t right now to swerve again and avoid this &#8220;Cliff&#8221;\u00a0is important for\u00a0sure.<\/p>\n<p>However, isn&#8217;t it really like using duct tape on a cracked nuclear reactor?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-571\" alt=\"734px-View_from_east_gallery_of_Zion_Tunnel,_showing_deep_narrow_gorge_of_Pine_Creek_with_pot_holes__-_NARA_-_520447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/734px-View_from_east_gallery_of_Zion_Tunnel_showing_deep_narrow_gorge_of_Pine_Creek_with_pot_holes__-_NARA_-_520447-215x300.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/734px-View_from_east_gallery_of_Zion_Tunnel_showing_deep_narrow_gorge_of_Pine_Creek_with_pot_holes__-_NARA_-_520447-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/734px-View_from_east_gallery_of_Zion_Tunnel_showing_deep_narrow_gorge_of_Pine_Creek_with_pot_holes__-_NARA_-_520447.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh, I think I said it earlier, but Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-573\" alt=\"HNY13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HNY13.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t get worked up about this issue &#8230; Happy New Year right? Fiscal Cliff. Boy, I don&#8217;t even know where to begin on the list of 100+ reasons I can&#8217;t get worked up about this issue. Honestly, I&#8217;ve been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=569\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol.8  Issue 47 &#8211; This cliff is at the bottom of a ravine.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-my-take-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}