View of fiscal cliff from the shop floor

From Drew Greenblatt’s latest column in Inc. magazine about the impact of the fiscal cliff standoff:

... Even as lawmakers harp on the importance of small business, those of us in the trenches are scrambling for ways to manage the uncertainty. The scramble is reverberating in ways quite opposite of what policymakers intended. Namely: lower business confidence, which translates into reduced spending and staff reductions. All this “bad karma” is arriving at an especially inopportune time, as many companies assemble their budgets for the coming year based on their best available outlook. Read more ...