31st
Gridlock on a massive scale
As an immigrant, I still take great interest in the goings-on of my former homeland. One of the most glaring differences is the ease with which elected officials are able to (and do) change policy, laws and regulations. It seems to me that we a Americans are often both hampered not just by the (genius) system of checks and balances, which I think should never be messed with, but also by an underlying “business” of partisanship. Read the quote from this article in Newsweek:
“Henry Paulson, the last Treasury secretary in the last Bush administration, told Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair that he was most shocked by the perfidy of official Washington, in which members of Congress would tell him privately that they supported policies that they would oppose, even vigorously trash, in public. “I didn’t understand the system,” Paulson concluded, the system in which men and women have their consciences excised in the course of government service. “
Wow! My conscience, and common sense, tells me to support this issue, but I’ll go on the Sunday talk shows and demonize both you and your plan.
Something seems to be broken!!
