http://news.yahoo.com/debt-compromise-eyed-under-deadline-squeeze-000255892.html
The key line of this article is toward the end when the author states about the US government, ” The dysfunctional gridlock in Washington has also raised concern over the long-term decline of U.S. economic power and the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.” This is not dysfunction, this is functionality at it’s very best and highest. The legislators are actually doing their jobs. It may seem strange for complacent USA citizens, but this kind of real debate, real legislative work, real differences in political views…all of this indicates a very good and healthy and highly functional government. Note that nobody is rioting. We do not have massive labor strikes that spill over into the streets and no one is calling out the military in order to control an unruly population. It’s just that we have become soft and we do not like conflict and we want all of this to simply be solved and go away so that we can get back to whatever it is that gives us pleasure. Politics may be a game, but it the real game of governing and the stakes are real and there will be winners and losers- really!!
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