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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (754878)11/23/2006 11:27:01 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
"Sorta shoots all kinds of holes in the value and magic of "divided government", doesn't it?"

What does?

Divided gvt. appears to provide some modest restraint on over-spending (vs. letting *ANY* bunch have sole control over all the levers of power... that is nearly always disasterous), but divided government does not *guarantee* balanced budgets.

Perhaps only a Constitutional amendment mandating such could do that....

(Still --- divided government, PAYGO budgets rules, all seem to help matters somewhat.)



To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (754878)11/24/2006 8:23:19 AM
From: JDN  Respond to of 769667
 
To me Divided government is EXPENSIVE Government as everyone has to compromise which in Congress means you vote for my pile of dodo and I'll vote for yours.
The offsett to that IN SOME PEOPLES MINDS is a measure of safety against anyone doing anything too extreme.
Under NORMAL circumstances I probably could be talked into divided government BUT IN TIME OF WAR I think its gonna prove to be A VERY BIG MISTAKE. jdn


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