We all remember the fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" in which a shepherd boy cries "wolf" tricking the villagers into thinking a wolf was attacking the flock. By the time the wolf really does appear, the villagers are so tired of being fooled that they don't show up and the flock is killed by the wolf.
We've already experienced the Fiscal Cliff 1.0 (the Tax Increase) and 2.0 (the Sequester) and are now on Fiscal Cliff 3.0 (the Government Shutdown). While the odds remain high that this latest crisis will be solved, there may come a time in the not too distant future when we the people are so disinterested in the latest man-made government crisis that we don't put enough pressure on lawmakers to resolve the issue in a timely manner. That will be the moment when the wolf appears and does harm to the economy, an economy that our elected officials are supposed to keep watch over.
