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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Simple answer
	Date:	7/23/2010 10:14:55 AM

Mack, unfortunately although the premise of your question is reasonable it is faulty. And that is you base your question on the assumption that politicians want to solve problems. Sadly that is not their goal. Their primary goal is to be reelected. Their secondary goal, which is related to the first, is to hold onto power. And their tertiary goal is to enrich themselves and their friends and contributors in order to accomplish their first two goals.

If you put all of us in a room and said your goal is to solve this or that problem and nothing else, we could probably accomplish it. But if you told us our goal was to come up with a solution that you could convince those that were like minded or could be convinced to vote for your approach we would never fix anything. We would simply pander to our various constituencies in order to garner their favor and their votes. And that pandering would result in diametrically opposed solutions and no hope for compromise.

And that my friend is why government should be limited and why more government at the local level is better than more government at the federal level where they are removed from their constituents, aren't impacted directly by their decisions and don't have to worry about getting dressed down by some lady in a grocery store or at church because of something they did.