Running US Off the Fiscal Cliff IS the Plan -- Continuing the Civil War Via Other Means

Are we surprised? . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp&

The New York Times

October 5, 2013
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MIKE McINTIRE

Why has it taken so long to call this for what it, and has been all along?

Shutdown shows the Civil War never ended The battle lines are still drawn BY STEPHAN RICHTER

reprinted on salondotcom from Globalist.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/07/shutdown_shows_the_civil_war_never_ended_partner/

This should be read in tandem with this story about the counties in Colorado who have a small (minority) secession group, who are pushing to for their own state separate from Colorado, for the same reasons the South chose to secede and make war: they are losing power and population. (They are not alone in this secession movement by any means.) They claim it's about other things, just as the confeds claimed it was about tariffs, but it was about the Slave Power losing Power to changing economies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/us/fed-up-on-the-prairie-and-voting-on-seceding-from-colorado.html?hp&_r=0

There is this reprinted too on salondotcom from Alternet:

Shutdown fulfills GOP’s Confederate fantasies
It's a way of acting out a deeply held secessionist dream
BY STEVEN ROSENFELD

This one even includes what we often say, that fox news and limbaugh are the contemporary version of the Charleston Mercury, which fed the most insane of talk by the fire eaters (as they were called then) about how well they will do when seceding and taking it all over for Our Peculiar Way of Life.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/shutdown_fulfills_gops_confederate_fantasies/

It's starting to look as though the baggers are tired of waiting and have chosen to take this moment to Do It, destroy the federal government they hate so much. The next month is likely to be far more terrible than most people still are thinking it will be when we default our debts.

Even now a bunch of our friends are suffering because of the furlough, including the friend in Waynesboro, VA, who works on the development of the lenses for the great telescopes such as the Great Array and so on.

In the meantime we can no longer access many federally funded databases and sites, such as the Library of Congress.