The author says there's a way out but it's much more than disappointing, it's downright insulting in that it's part of what is taught in middle school, having heard this too many times before to react in any way other then WTF is your problem?
Offering the same stupefying, mind numbing, boiler plate solution,the standard crap we've only heared about a million times before, is that the way out you're talking about?
The Way out;
*The deficit has to be managed (Amazing that no one has suggested it before)
*Government has to work better, meaning that it needs to modernize and become more useful in our everyday lives
(You mean government is NOT working better? And here i thought..
*The political system has to be fixed (Like maybe eliminating the Democratic party?
And this is your way out, huh?
President Barack Obama chimed in with a proposed pulling the federal government more firmly into the 21st century by making better use of cutting-edge technology. (You mean like building a huge 21st Century network to spy, keep tabs on US citizens?) "We can't take comfort in just being cynical," he said. "We all have a stake in government success, because government is us.". Government is us is when the government is a democracy but not when you only you pull the levers of government without the need to even as much as consult with the other branches. Government is us meaning those you chose to help you build a police state.
"We can't take comfort in just being cynical," he said.That's funny, because being cynical is very easy to be when you hear cockamamie mantras about hope and change that doesn't mean a damn, and the solutions as offered in this article are just standard Civics class inanities that simply makes a fool of anyone believing it.
I actually had hoped the way out was to promise Mr.Obama that if he resigned we'd make him Ambassador to Kenya for life.
Just saying.
I would suggest five simple ways “out”:
1. Limit Senators and Representatives to 100 days in DC, unless the President convenes them for an emergency.
2. Limit all of them to a maximum of twelve years of service in DC.
3. Dissolve the eight thousand pages of tax code, and limit everyone to a plain flat tax....to include industry and the private citizen.
4. The President gets a yearly travel budget, and can’t go beyond that limit. If his entourage is up to five hundred folks...there’s something wrong.
5. Give the federal government five years to trim the number of federal employees to sixty percent of what exists today. Once they fail at the task...start limiting Congressional and Senate sessions to one day a week.
Given the stinking pile that the USG is, how can collapsing confidence in it be anything other than excellent news?
Seventeen percent? So if you put blacks and liberal elites together they make up 17% of the population? Sounds about right...
Collapsing confidence in government is a very good thing. We need to recognize that big government solutions to our problems are going to be counterproductive. Anything government can actually do usefully was already added to government many years ago. All new expansions are bad. If we want improvement, we need a whole lost less government - so we can spend more of our own money usefully and in freedom. I don’t mean cut the rate of growth, I mean cut back by more than 50% of our existing federal government over a 5-10 year period.
The only way out is through secession or revolution.
That’s it. Barring a complete shut down and evisceration of Federal Government, these are the only other two options available to US.
It’s time to destroy it all, clean up, and build it back up using the original Constitution as a foundation.
Maybe not yet, but it’s either that or become slaves to a “free, democratic” government.....all in the name of safety(control).
Look in the mirror, Harry. A large part of the problem is right there.
The writer’s premise is fundamentally wrong: “The problem isn’t simply political dysfunction in Congress but something bigger: a collapse of public confidence in government across all fronts.”
And why pray tell is that actually a problem? Why do we need public confidence in government? It would seem that a lack of confidence is healthy and likely to result in people thinking about their OWN solutions to problems rather than relying on government to come in with it’s nonexistent magic wand and somehow make it all better.
I think there is a slim chance that if Harry worked at it long enough, even he could figure out the cause and effect connection here.
When Mr. mutable says things like, “government is us”, he gets well, muted.
I didn’t see “government should tell us the truth” on the list of things to fix the problem.
But is a dysfunctional Congress really a bad thing?
I’m sick of hearing about ‘compromise’ and the ‘middle ground’. If you’re trapped in a cave with a ravenous beast, wouldn’t be a compromise just to let it gnaw your limbs off? And how do you know that it would stop there?
The author just focuses on the top in DC. That people have come to distrust Washington because politicians have said something. The People are just potted plants watered by the politicians to produce the result that the politicians want. The People are zero.