When we have a problem our politicians get together and bounce around all sorts of ideas to address the problem, Then someone writes a "bill" (term used to identify steps to address the problem) and then it is submitted and finally voted on by the house of representatives. Next the senate creates and submits their version or an entirely different version of a bill with their idea of how to address the problem. Then a bill containing hopefully the best of both bills goes to the president to be signed into law.
This is a fair way to address a problem and the best our system offers to date. However my problem with this is that a bill addressing a single problem is never allowed to work through the system to stand on its own merit and pass into law fundamentally sound to specifically address the original problem.
Every single time with few if any exceptions the bill is either watered down, stripped of the original intent, added to with all sorts of wasteful spending to apease for some votes, or turned over to writers who alter the original purpose of the bill so that in the end it either does not address the original problem or it has many unrelated items attached to it or it becomes something else entirely, wasting money or of little benefit to the people as a whole, or the bill is defeated and the problem is no longer addressed.
And then there is the fact that there is so much special interest involved nowadays with both parties that we seem to increasingly be at odds on everything. This is amazing since both supposedly want the same outcome. That being what is best for our country and our citizens. And yet we seem to grow further and further apart on everything.
We need to come together as a society and remember our values and right and wrong and decide things based on what is really and truly best for our people, our freedoms, our health, our safety, our security, our prosperity and our environment. And when we do the right things based on that our success is assured.
And when a bill is made to address a problem, that problem should be studied and understood fully and the bill shoud then address the solutions for that problem and stand on its own merit and other bills should address each other problem and do the same. Then maybe we could solve some problems and save some money to address other problems that need real solutions as well.
