November 11, 2005

Thou Shalt Not Destroy the Center - New York Times

Friedman is frustrated. I am, too. When will we have the will as a people to remedy the terrible fiscal problems ahead of us? I'm afraid crisis is the only word we understand. Shameful that we won't elect enough people to 'do the right thing.'

"Well, you get the point. At a time when we are busy lecturing others about the need to adopt democratic systems, ours and many others seem to be hopelessly gridlocked - with neither the left nor the right able to generate a mandate to tackle hard problems. And it is the yawning gap between the huge problems our country faces today - Social Security reform, health care, education, climate change, energy - and the tiny, fragile mandates that our democracy seems able to generate to address these problems that is really worrying."

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