[GMScud]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

The problem with our system is quite easy to identify. Politicians do not answer to constituents...they answer to their party. Politicians who are not part of a party have an insane uphill battle to election. All this talk of compromise at the political level is hogwash. None of them can be trusted to to what's right (compromise or not)...they only do what is needed to stay elected. Now back to the credit rating that 12th seems to think isn't important contrary to the rest of society (as indicated by the markets reaction).

This.