Friends, this is what I got. Wrote the beginning. For comments.

NEITHER STATE NOR MARKET. The fiscal cliff is not really a “cliff”; the entire country will not fall into the ocean should we hit it. This cliff is a bump, but a necessary one, and the fear it instills should jolt us into solving the problems of both taxation and deficit, and find inventive solutions. But deep down in me there is a wish to hit that cliff, in order to accelerate a remedy for our disease. We are in a situation of learned helplessness and it is imperative to break out of it. Anything is preferable to the situation we are in currently…

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