NC, Dem. Gov. Perdue "Let's Suspend The Next Elections" To Get Things Done

[Rastus]

True, funny thing is, I can't remember anyone ever doing that.  Granted I'm not as old as some, but I bet they can't either.

If you've never had ice cream you can't miss it, eh?  True statement.  This is the issue that many of us try to portray...what it can be because of what it was like.  Which, by the way Tab, is why some of your statments drive the old folks crazy.  It's hard for you to believe if all you've ever seen was graft, lying and corruption in public officials.  Who do you believe?  What do you believe? 

If a generation is lost......

[tombogan03884]

True, funny thing is, I can't remember anyone ever doing that.  Granted I'm not as old as some, but I bet they can't either.

There have been some good ones.
Like Barry Goldwater. He is depicted as being a "Right Wing nut" but time has proven that he saw this future and it mad him sick.

[tt11758]

Never mind Jefferson, keep in mind what Gotti said about Paul Castellano.

(Sammy, we gotta whack this f*ck )

[Ichiban]

 "In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."
- Peter Orszag
http://www.americablog.com/2011/09/peter-orszag-calls-for-less-democracy.html

The start of the drum beats.

[tombogan03884]

I have to insert these quotes from the article because there's quite a bit that I not only agree with, but is backed by the historical record. (Highlighted portions are ones I agree with )

Quote from Peter Orszag
In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” That may read today like an overstatement, but it is certainly true that our democracy finds itself facing a deep challenge: During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result.

So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

America was never intended to be a "democracy". Democracy is nothing more than mob rule where who ever screams the loudest can override the best most well reasoned of minorities.
That was the reason for the property requirement for voting, those who had a vote had a vested interest in seeing govt run in the most efficient, and prosperity enhancing manner possible. Meanwhile those who had nothing but a hand out where denied the opportunity to loot the public treasury for "bread and circuses".

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[bryand71]

I just can't wait till it is time to vote her out of office. I hope NC will elect a conservitive this time around.