Monday, September 29. 2008Politics and Pointing Fingers.
Earlier today, Sideshow shared an article from CNN with me. His comment on the article was, "If lawmakers spent half as much time trying to get things done, as they do blaming one another, we'd be a lot better off."
Sideshow, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. I believe that the men who wrote the Constitution not only knew that things like this would happen; I believe that they expected it and wanted it to happen this way. I believe that the men who wrote the Constitution believed, like I believe, that hasty decisions are, generally speaking, poorly thought out and poorly implemented. Our government isn't designed to get things done quickly. In history class, we learn about the checks and balances that are built into the Constitution, but as our history teachers praise these checks and balances, they often fail to point out what their real purpose is. The checks and balances help to preserve freedom by making it hard to pass laws. They make it so that our government can't get anything done. They encourage politicians to sit around pointing fingers instead of accomplishing things. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have them pointing fingers--at least then their hands aren't reaching into my wallet. Trackbacks
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Ancient of Days on :
I have to say that "The West Wing" proposed an interesting alternative to either of the two options you present - that of "Raise the Debate". Pointing fingers is not a value-added exercise; neither is hasty action. I don't think EITHER of these are what the Framers of the Constitution intended.
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For the record I agree, I think the system worked completely in this situation.
My problem with finger pointing is when something doesn't happen (i.e. The Bailout), the first thing we hear is that It's Their Fault vote for more of our party. When in actuality, like Elbows said the System worked completely. Where I have an issue, is rather than taking the time to go to the media and say "We tried hard it's their fault", they can take that time and put it to use the time, and move on to the next issue, whether any resolution is made or not. The Mad Giggler on :
While I understand the point Mr. Elbows is making about not making decisions rapidly, I could do without the pointless bickering. I think the media is every bit as much to blame as the politicians themselves, but I like to think we'd be better served if they'd spend more of their time doing research to understand the issues behind the laws they're arguing about so much.
Stuff like the DMCA drives me crazy, because it just illustrates how out of touch politicians are. I also feel that they suffer from the same thing many of our illustrious businessmen are getting called on: short-sightedness. |
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