Quote:
Originally Posted by Demosthenes";p="
Quote:
Originally Posted by hankdane";p="
Quote:
Originally Posted by Demosthenes";p="
Dan, you are correct in saying whatmakes our Gov't inefficient, but what form of Gov't have you ever heard of that was efficient?
|
I submit: The US government in the period 1786-1824. The government still worked reasonably well, with ups and downs, until 1928. |
Even considering that the Gov't was run by the Land-owning white man for the land-owning white man and and no one else? Nevermind, it's the same way today.
-Demosthenes |
I really didn't expect such a gratuitous comment from you.
Maybe in the past the USA was a country for rich, white, landowning men, but not any more. Now its a country where a diverse group of special interests compete in the buying of elected officials. Not just rich , landowning white men either although there are a lot of corporate special interest. But you also have labor special interests, trial lawyers, the teacher's union, the religous groups, the anti-religous groups, women's groups, black groups, seniors groups & many, many more.
Everyone is pushing their own miopic view of the perfect world by buying or coercing any politician they can get their hands on. Now that I think about it, the expansion of groups who can purchase political support for their special interest is probably one of the very best examples of a progression towards diversity that I can imagine.
