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Is America Ungovernable?
With the American electorate looking more and more schizophrenic every day, as in: not liking the Health Care Reform Act (but liking medicare, medicaid, etc), wanting deep spending cuts as long as it doesn't affect them, and now giving the Paul Ryan plan a severe rebuke in New York 26, the question arises; Is America Ungovernable? The New Republic has a very good article on the subject.
"Let's step back for a moment and think about what "ungovernable" means. There are three kinds of problems that make more effective policy impossible. The first is that, in many areas, economic special interests block policy changes that lack deep public opposition. I'm thinking of farm subsidies, tax loopholes, wasteful health care spending, financial regulation, teacher compensation, defense pork, and clean energy. The second is public fiscal illiteracy -- voters want to keep taxes low on everybody but the rich, preserve every penny of entitlement spending, and balance the budget. Any attempt to bring the government's revenue and outlays into line will be met with a public outcry, especially if the public is being whipped up by an opposition party eager to bring down the majority and gain power for itself. Sometimes problems one ... more

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