No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week

A Reader writes "If you were hoping for a government shutdown today, you are going to be disappointed. In a last-hour cliffhanger, Democrats and Republicans managed to agree with each other enough to keep the government funded for the rest of the current fiscal year. Since the budget bill that finally passed was a compromise, no one is happy with it. So it goes. That's how things work in a representative government."

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Re:not sure who they represent

[TheGratefulNet]

representative government is a nice sounding concept but can't be applied.

just can't. no one in power is willing to give up THEIR power and heed to the will of the people.

then again, do you WANT 'the unwashed masses' making decisions? half of this country still thinks a sky wizard created the universe 6000 yrs ago. you want THOSE knuckles-scraping-ground morons to make policy or have a say in it?

the shutdown was also about 'right to lifers' vs the pro-choice movement. the fact that so much of the US buys into this anti-choice drivel means I'm not convinced I WANT those people having a say in our public policy.

so, the reps are not qualified and the people are surely not.

what's left?

a solution that does not exist. ie, there is no way to rule people and have it work and be stable over long periods of time. name one civ that has lasted. they don't. problem cannot be solved.