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McCarthy Demands 8% Spending Cut, Border Wall to Avert Shutdown (www.bloomberg.com)

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(Bloomberg) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a deal to temporarily avert a US government shutdown, with demands including an 8% spending cut for domestic agencies and a resumption of border wall construction.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It truly is a deeply flawed system.

The problems, I think, start with the fact the entire thing was built on compromises with the slave states in the South who basically wanted a guarantee they could veto something they didn’t like - even if they didn’t have a majority.

How the US Founding Fathers failed to consider this type of extreme partisanship would grind the US to a halt is also somewhat baffling. George Washington even warned of the dangers of political parties in his farewell address, and he was clearly aware that partisanship would be a huge issue. Yet the system they put in place is poorly equipped to deal with it.

It really feels like almost everything wrong with the system stems from those concessions made at the nation’s founding. But I don’t see how any changes will be made. A parliamentary system would be much better, especially from a budget perspective.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 2 points 1 year ago

Well, we didn't really have political parties when the nation was founded...certainly not the duopoly we have now...so I can forgive them not imagining half the population being willing to burn the while system down (twice now). I also imagine some of them did foresee the issues but figured the system would have time to correct itself before we got where we are now.