[Still Thinking]

Exactly. It itself is a band-aid sold as the fix for what are really the direct and indirect effects of the LAST round of goobermint bungling/meddling, which was sold as the fix for what was really the direct and indirect effects of the PREVIOUS rounds....

Why would the process suddenly cease being dysfunctional on this particular cycle. I stand with The Won when he says that if a certain ideology or group of guys created a problem, they don't get to direct the fix. Course he applies it where it isn't actually true, but the principle is valid.

[MileHi]

Exactly. It itself is a band-aid sold as the fix for what are really the direct and indirect effects of the LAST round of goobermint bungling/meddling, which was sold as the fix for what was really the direct and indirect effects of the PREVIOUS rounds....

Healthcare was a mess because Ted Kennedy "fixed it" and we got HMOs.