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Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by peterwayland on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:24AM (#6474020)
In an office environment. If employees don't work well together they get fired. Why is there no accountability ?
Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by sp332 on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:48AM (#6474128)
You can change who's in office, but it's basically impossible at this point to change the offices themselves. Committees and subcommittees, lobbies, corporations, military interests and other support systems are so entrenched that it literally doesn't matter who you put in power, the same problems will exist.

Anyway, Congress isn't supposed to get along. If everyone agreed all the time we would be able to reduce the system to a single person who made all the decisions. The point to a representative democracy is that the representatives represent different interests. Even the idea of having a vote presupposes conflict.

Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by yellowbkpk on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:26AM (#6474029)
There is. It happens in November every few years.
Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by rjbwork on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:31AM (#6474043)
Wish i could get an extremely well paid job, do jack shit for 2-6 years and then maybe get voted out at the end of that time. Hell, give me a senator's salary for 6 years and I'd be in heaven.
Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by mayneack on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:41AM (#6474337)
Well, fundraising is a full time job. Can't expect them to do two jobs, can you?
Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by 001sky on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:42AM (#6474096)
+after you get voted out you can even get a corporate wellfare job as a lobbyist. being a memmber of congress is like an upaid internship. its just the tip of the fun.
Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years by dinkumthinkum on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:00AM (#6493796)
Well, in this country we have this thing called democracy where random people that don't even know where they are or even what the Constitution is can decide, even on the basis of basically inane or racist views, who will get fired or hired. This is typically different from an office environment.