More Federal Fuck-uppery.
Apr. 27th, 2010 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickSo.. Arizona's immigration bill. Racist, Small-minded, idiotic, probably unconstitutional.
And I blame the Federal Government for it even existing at all, because if they'd done their job, Arizona wouldn't have had to step in to try to do it for them.
I've been wrapping my mind up around a thought that's been growing for a while, which is that the American Government no longer works.
I truly believe that when the framers wrote down their concept of checks and balances, they never expected blocs of senators all voting together against a president, activist judges and a whole host of people across both sides of the aisle who seem to think it's more important to get reelected for another term than to do what they're constituents may want them to do.
This is not, I think, how government is SUPPOSED to work. The system is broken.
Immigration has been an issue for years. One of many, but no one can come to a conclusion, no law can be made, so we'll punt it back for another few years. The number of issues that have been punted backwards, health care reform, education reform, social secutity, etc. etc. .. is disgusting, really, and makes you wonder.. what HAS our government achieved?
I don't blame the Republicans, solely. This is not a one-party problem. This is a Washington-wide problem.
K. I'm done. But still disgusted.
And I blame the Federal Government for it even existing at all, because if they'd done their job, Arizona wouldn't have had to step in to try to do it for them.
I've been wrapping my mind up around a thought that's been growing for a while, which is that the American Government no longer works.
I truly believe that when the framers wrote down their concept of checks and balances, they never expected blocs of senators all voting together against a president, activist judges and a whole host of people across both sides of the aisle who seem to think it's more important to get reelected for another term than to do what they're constituents may want them to do.
This is not, I think, how government is SUPPOSED to work. The system is broken.
Immigration has been an issue for years. One of many, but no one can come to a conclusion, no law can be made, so we'll punt it back for another few years. The number of issues that have been punted backwards, health care reform, education reform, social secutity, etc. etc. .. is disgusting, really, and makes you wonder.. what HAS our government achieved?
I don't blame the Republicans, solely. This is not a one-party problem. This is a Washington-wide problem.
K. I'm done. But still disgusted.
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Date: 2010-04-27 02:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-27 05:02 pm (UTC)...
And yes, I think the Gov't is broken too, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I'm not even sure if it can be fixed -- humans aren't really designed to work with large numbers and big things, so how should we expect to be able to effectively govern nearly half a billion people?