Happy New Year. So we see how the "fiscal cliff", that was put there by the Democrats in the first place, has been moved for 60 days into the next Congress -- the problem not solved at all. The problem that is clearly out of control spending was "fixed" by $300 billion of new spending and new taxes on 77% of all taxpayers in order to raise the taxes on the "upper 2%". It is no wonder that people are disgusted with our dysfunctional federal government.  Everything has to be done in crisis mode, passed at the last minute; thousands of words of legislation that the legislators don't even have time to read.