On 10 Nov 2008 at 3:07, William T Goodall wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2008, at 23:04, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > > > part of the reason government sometimes makes bad decisions is > > because it attracts corrupt people, easily influenced by greedy, > > unscrupulous lobbyists. > > The American system was designed to have congress, senate, president > and supreme court neutralise each other so that it's quite hard to > corrupt. With the political consensus in the USA now so narrow > (republicans and democrats are much closer than opposition parties in > other western democracies) that's not working so well. The parties are
Wait, what's that? Oh, it's me making a rude sound. They're further apart in fundermental positions that Labour and Conservative. The countries which tend to have actually different parties are those with coalition government systems. AndrewC _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
