Fact checking Fiscal Armageddon 2013™

Before I go to bed, as I have work in the morning, here is a little layman's fact check on the fiscal cliff fraud. 
The following is a lie:

The resulting pressure on GOP leaders was immense: Absent action to avert the fiscal cliff, Americans would face hefty across-the-board income-tax hikes, while indiscriminate spending cuts risked devastating domestic and defense programs. Skittish financial markets were watching the dysfunction in Washington carefully amid warnings that going off the so-called cliff could plunge the fragile economy into a new recession.

The tax increase to a middle class family would have amounted to about $2000 for the year, and the "devastating" cuts equalled $110 billion against a $1.1 TRILLION deficit (this year's number).  Not one single cent would have been paid towards the debt.

That's right, folks.  Fiscal Armageddon 2013™ was averted to prevent a savings of 36 days worth of deficit spending.  It takes some big shoes to kick the can that far down the road...

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