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To: Alighieri who wrote (629749)	9/28/2011 10:03:05 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

Too Much of a Good Thing Why we need less democracy. Peter Orszag September 14, 2011 \| 9:46 pm In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” That may read today like an overstatement, but it is certainly true that our democracy finds itself facing a deep challenge: During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result. So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

To: Alighieri who wrote (629749)	9/28/2011 12:37:28 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577191

The lamestream media is destroying my candidate. Yeah...lol...of course he's cooperating quite well... That's not twue! That's not twue! Mr. Perry is a brilliant man who is just misunderstood.