State of the Union speech

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Jan 21st 2015 | 5:07 am

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Re: State of the Union speech

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It is weird isn't it...one half of the government sees its primary job as preventing the other half from implementing its policies.

Of course. This is by design.

Edit: regarding "making things better" some, like myself, might say that the best thing government can do is get the hell out of the way and stop "helping". But that's just me.

Jan 21st 2015 | 8:10 am

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Re: State of the Union speech

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So no more highways, schools or national defense (just to give a random sample of things the government does.)

Jan 21st 2015 | 8:11 am

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Re: State of the Union speech

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So no more highways, schools or national defense (just to give a random sample of things the government does.)

"Yes, but apart from all that..."

(Wonder if he'd get the reference.)

Jan 21st 2015 | 9:37 am

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Re: State of the Union speech

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It is weird isn't it...one half of the government sees its primary job as preventing the other half from implementing its policies.

And improving things for the general populace to be secondary.

Pretty much summed up the american two party system in two sentences. Nicely done!

It's quite the shame nothing will get achieved until November 2016 while Obama tries to cement his legacy and the republicans try everything (or nothing) to taint it.
Maybe they'll block the building of more aqueducts.....