Yep! Off the fiscal cliff.
Pay off your debts. Hang on to as much cash as you can. Massive inflation is inevitable.
This is what business will continue to do. Look at the stock market. Where is that cash coming from and going to?
The unemployed are SOL and will be more and more dependent on the government in this democrat controlled economy.

Over the cliff
and thru the mess

Nah, there's nothing wrong with the finances. 16 trillion$.....pfft, who cares? Raise the debt ceiling, Americans looooooooooooove the inflation tax.......you know, the worst tax of all.......the one we all deal with in everything we purchase.

Inflation doesn't "just happen," it's due to monetary policies. You want to place the blame for our high prices for everything, look no further than the PRIVATE cartel the Federal Reserve and a lax Congress.

It's not Obama or the D's.
It's not Bush or the R's.
It's all of them................none of these people deal with what you and I do, yet most of you guys want to defend one of the two gangs controlling us................and I'm the crazy one for simply wanting my Freedom to experience true Liberty??

So according to your statements, it is fine and dandy for the Govt to force us to purchase a product?

I completely agree. After all, Mitt Romney dismissed 47% of the country as slackers whose votes he just wrote off as not meaning anything to him. Now he is confronted with the results of his elitism.

Daryl Dixon,
As someone who works with the DoD and has security clearance. You know very, very little of what went on. It is currently under investigation. Most of these investigations take about a year. As far as the two possible plans you are referring to, they were possibilities. But do you know how a C-130 attacks works in the middle of a city with thousands of innocent civilians? The Marines is another issue and was logistical. Now I ask, were you asking the same questions with the 6 embasses attacked during the Bush administration. Like the following:
2002, Karachi, Pakistan - 10 dead
2004, Uzbekistan - 2 dead, 9 injured
2004, Saudi Arabia - 8 dead
2006, Syria - luckly no one was killed
2007, Athens - luckly no one was killed
2008, Serbia - Embassy was set on Fire
2008, Yemen - 10 dead

Two months after these events were you calling for answers or are you playing partisan politics now?

if you think 9-11 was bad, just wait because of the lack of military now thanks to Obama

victory,
Lack of military due to lack of the passing of a funding bill through the House and Senate which are currently held by the Republicans. Both parties have to play together. Like in any culture checks and balances. The Congress writes the check, the President Signs it. Kind of hard to sign a check that isn't written.

I love Mr Dixon's phrase "...it has been reported...", which is meaningless; all kinds of newspapers, and all kinds of radio loudmouths, and all kinds of television clowns, can "report" all manner of total BS.

The FBI, and State Department, and military intel, are doing deep classified studies, using not one, not two, not three, not four, etc, etc sources, but every source available. Until that information is studied, and analyzed, and validated, any extreme right wing sour-grapers will just whine, and whine, and whine.

As someone who spent a career in the military, and in wartime handled incoming communications from various field levels as well as centralized and sanitized comint and sigint sources, there are usually conflicts in incoming traffic. That is what we have with Benghazi, right now, so soon after the incident.

In fact, sometimes we never get satisfactory answers on what really happened decades after an incident, and I would give the USS Liberty's attack by Israeli forces as one such incident. But most of the time we are able to wade through the information, and come to reasonably confident conclusions.

Mr Dixon seems unwilling to have the professionals do their job, as he has already reached his own conclusion based upon "...it has been reported...".

I'm glad I never had him watching my back in wartime.

Let the Republicans rant if they wish. The fact is that the elitism that they represent lost last night, and Obama remains our president!

"American Patriot" I have served as well, your bias shows through your "patriot" veil. I have no doubt that our Military intel members are looking into this and it is not my faith in them that is in subject. What I do hope is that our Commander in Chief will do everything in his power to make sure that IF mistakes were made and IF there were failures that they do not happen again. I want to thank you for serving but as for your comment about watching your back It saddens me that as a "service member" you would result in attacking someone you never met but this type of response has become typical and makes me question its source. From your description of your military duties you were more than likely watching my back and that scares me. Also isn’t COMINT a type of SIGINT? And what about the other types of Intelligence Collection Disciplines why didn’t you list them or were you just trying to impress me?

or I should say that SIGINT is a type of COMINT right? along with HUMINT,IMINT,MASINT and OSINT?

Comint is indeed a type of Sigint, and I meant to say Elint (also a type of Sigint).

And yes, there are multiple types of intel, but my point was that there are often conflicts in information that is coming in in real time and I was giving examples. In the Benghazi situation, I'd professionally wager that the best source will be Humint, supplemented by Comint. And, as multiple echelons were involved, the challenge for the incident evaluators will be to weigh the varying perceptions of each echelon as the events were developing.

And as to corrections, if you really think that POTUS is going to personally write the report, and validate the decision, then you are not being realistic about the chain of command. Yes, he will be the final approver and authority. The key players for eval and correction will be State, CIA, DIA, CENTCOM, and CINCUSNAVEUR, along with the FBI for eval.

And my point about watching my back relates to situations in which someone would make flawed judgments, by using a single source of info and not checking all intel sources available, and all comms incoming, so that the best judgment is made for the protection of all forces.

Neither you, nor I, are tasked with uncovering the full story about this incident, and taking pot shots and making half-baked judgments is not helpful, and could be harmful.

Let the professionals do their job.

And thank you for your service.

Thank you for the convesations Ed.

I live on Riverhills and there was someone who had a yard COVERED in Romney signs. But they were all gone this morning. Not sure if it's related but it was a bit bizarre.

What about those of us who want a pre-1913 America? What's extremely sad is the majority of the people who actually read this will have no idea why I used the year 1913.

Victory, You sound like you listen to Rush Limbaugh a little too much. Please don't keep posting such ridiculous comments. I'm tired of wasting my time reading your infantile "democrap" comments.

That is the basis of the political system, a series of political combat that keeps our government as a living document. With checks and balances.