U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student visas

Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by umanwizard on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:29PM (#23837415)

> the senate refuses to do its job

It's not really the Senate's fault. Opposition parties almost never vote with government parties in any democratic legislature, so you shouldn't expect them to in the US.

The real problem is the outdated system that is set up to (1) only allow two major parties to exist, so a European-style coalition government isn't possible, and (2) require both major parties to agree in order to pass any legislation.

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by tomp on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:44PM (#23837583)

Why outdated? Coronavirus stimulus pckage became law on 27th March in both the US and Germany (Europe’s model democracy). So it’s arguably a good thing, consensual things happen quickly, controversial things take a long time.

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by jessaustin on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:53PM (#23841121)

The laws may have passed on the same date, but they were not the same laws. In functioning democracies, laws passed in response to health and economic emergencies have something to do with health and economics. In USA, Congress just unanimously (well, except for Thomas Massie) gave rich people trillions of dollars.

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by abvdasker on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:00PM (#23839629)

Look at the COVID-19 statistics in the US compared to almost every other country in the world and tell me that we have a functional federal government.

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