How politics are pulling us apart - Detroit Free Press feature article
How politics are pulling us apart
November 4, 2012
By Todd Spangler
Detroit Free Press Washington Staff
WASHINGTON -- Jeff and Nita Send need Washington to get its act together.
The couple are fruit farmers near Traverse City, and -- like farmers across the country -- are waiting on a new farm bill, a massive piece of legislation that in one section gives cash assistance for a cherry crop lost because of last spring's erratic weather.
With the money, the Sends could replace an aging Harvester, fertilize trees and prepare for next year's crop without borrowing.
But the bill is stuck in the U.S. House as Republicans wrangle over whether it cuts deeply enough. Whatever the House approves, a final version will still have to be hammered out with Senate Democrats at a time when such deals are nearly impossible to negotiate.
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"If they worked for me," Jeff Send said of Congress, "they wouldn't be working."
more, lots more ...
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It's a good read, folks, that involves a whole lot more than embattled cherry farmers!
Bozita
(26,955 posts)I posted the OP, went to look for it on the Latest Page, and needed to scroll down a full hour to find it.
Confusing? ... Absolutely!
Prediction: This thread's gonna get lost before it's ever discovered.
kcass1954
(1,819 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Congress does work for him--or at least it's supposed to.
K-Matt
(83 posts)no false equivalency, please!
caraher
(6,278 posts)Much of the problem lies in the nature of the RW ideology - the notion that government itself is "the problem." Put a bunch of people who don't believe in government, either in principle or in practice, in charge of the government, and inaction and failure are the all-too-predictable results.
It's not even that the two parts want government to do different things, it's that only one party generally wants it to succeed.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)that means politicians of both parties aren't coming together to screw us on behalf of the wealthy enough.
The only talking point more disturbing is "post-partisan" which is a euphemism for "post-democracy."