- About 2 million job loses in a very short time
- A seriously weakened and even further demoralized military which will now be, in real terms, a hollow force
- A possible acceleration of the world ditching the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency due to a lack of confidence by world markets that finally run out of patience
- An ensuing crisis that allows Obama, the media, and the Democrats to call for even more of a police state to “get us through the current crisis.”
Can't happen. Read your history books.
In the long run military strength and economic strength are the same thing. The fiscal cliff (and the debt ceiling - AKA fiscal cliff 2) strengthens America’s economy by constraining spending and therefore strengthens the military.