http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/the-shadow-of-the-sequester/
If that kind of non-action, or legislative incompetence as demonstrated in the 2011 Sequestration is a "model for future compromise", then American democracy is in worse shape than even I have suspected.
Another OECD study was released today, capturing the level of education/skills of the "adult population" (15-65 year olds) in some major industrialized countries, and as with most other OECD statistics, the US ranks in the lower part of the bottom half.
Far from the favorite American mantra of "American exceptionalism", what we need is some serious new policies, programs and legislation to move America back to the forefront of the advanced industrialized world. But Mr. Douthat seems to think that the kind of legislative incompetence and non-action, exemplified by the 2011 Sequester, and by the current idiocy of dogmatic games of chicken is a good example of democratic governance.
Another OECD study was released today, capturing the level of education/skills of the "adult population" (15-65 year olds) in some major industrialized countries, and as with most other OECD statistics, the US ranks in the lower part of the bottom half.
Far from the favorite American mantra of "American exceptionalism", what we need is some serious new policies, programs and legislation to move America back to the forefront of the advanced industrialized world. But Mr. Douthat seems to think that the kind of legislative incompetence and non-action, exemplified by the 2011 Sequester, and by the current idiocy of dogmatic games of chicken is a good example of democratic governance.
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