[quote=SD Realtor]My god! How can you miss the conclusion SK?
We spend to much. That is the conclusion.[/quote]
Then the conclusion is also that we tax too little. How did you miss that part?
The right conclusion, which is never mentioned, is that the political process involves pressures from all sides. Political idealogies that cross party lines. That democracy is messy and there are always tradeoffs.
Someone here on this site (maybe it was scaredy? or maybe flu?) suggested they were going to vote for whichever party candidate would guarantee that neither party had control of all branches of government. I can’t criticize that that concept. Unfettered ideological control of government hasn’t worked out so good in the past. But the fact of the matter is, what we have is the trade-off from that outcome. Gridlock and a system where party is sometimes more important that policy. The apparent hypocrisy is the result. Little steps are about as good as we can hope for. To quote one of our best fictional presidents of all time:
“Every once in a while… every once in a while, there’s a day with an absolute right and an absolute wrong, but those days almost always include body counts. Other than that, there aren’t very many unnuanced moments in leading a country that’s way too big for ten words.
