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Originally Posted by Azure
The government is broken.
That much is pretty evident.
I don't necessarily agree with forcing another debt ceiling vote though, but I think they should pass a law that requires them to do entitlement reform, tax code reform, and form a special committee that has 3 months to go over the budget and find real cuts that will work.
In the meantime just vote to raise the debt ceiling with the $3 trillion in cuts.
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What about just raising the debt ceiling with no attachments, then look at revenues and expenses and legislate accordingly without arbitary deadlines and ceilings like the rest of the industrialized world.
What examples do you have where govt is broken?
To me it is a broken polity or electorate that is uninformed and scared about what is happening around them and an unwillingness to compromise. It starts with NIMBYism and works its way up to primaries system of elections where the far left or right of the party tend to be more active leaving out moderates for the general election. People are not in a conciliatory mood nowadays and it is represented in some elected officials like Tea Party members.
Moreover, voters base their decisions from sound bites from Fox or CNN because they don't want to spend the time or too much thought to look at policy before making an informed decision.
imho...