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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> If we're going to somehow be able to work out these problems, including if 
> not especially Connie Mack's, by our great heart and ingenuity in the 
> future, they why, asks I, don't we apply those traits right now and solve 
> it right now instead of passing down to the next decades?

Seems like you are wanting politicians to act with common sense. They do so 
in only one regard: getting reelected. Common sense in that regard says do 
what the voters want: give them handouts, cut their taxes, lie to them 
because they embrace messengers carrying good news.

So-called leaders in the DC Whorehouse figure they will be retired on their 
fat congressional pensions when the train goes off the track. Everyone will 
be pointing fingers at those bad guys in the past that didn't do the right 
things. The Right will blame the Left and vice versa. Meanwhile, they vote 
to build bridges to nowhere so their fellow whores will reciprocate and 
vote for their own back-home pork projects. Pork buys votes.

The time is not yet come for real change; the pain is not great enough.