Fear? disgust? disbelief? Feel the fiscal fiasco

What should Canadians feel about our American friends? Fear, disgust, disbelief? There’s probably a little of all those things in the rather bitter look we see in the eyes of Finance Minister Flaherty (left). Some people are saying that the handful of Senators who are now working furiously to find a compromise and avoid that tax-wrenching dive over the fiscal cliff are already mathematically out of time. Is there a retro fix available? We think so. But if they don’t find it, the U.S. is expected to slide into another recession by June. And you know what that means for us.