How effectively does our government represent the will of average Americans vs. the very wealthy?

[yurbud]

In light of recent White House and legislative moves, I don't think this question even needs explanation.

[hedgehog]

1. I didn't respond to the poll because of the implication that the White House

and both houses of Congress work hand in hand. Our Constitution is designed to make it hard to pass new laws. Senate and House rules are just a pile on on top of that, empowering a minority to block appointments and laws. the result is to protect the status quo and the wealthy. After all, no one ever had to pass a law requiring industry to pollute the air and water!

[yurbud]

2. Have you noticed how quickly things move to help the wealthy and how checks and balances &

bureaucracy make it grind ever so slowly (and often to a halt) to benefit the rest of us?

[hedgehog]

4. Again, a general condemnation of the President and both Houses

is not enlightening. Look at all the laws that Nancy Pelosi got through that vanished forever in the maws of Senate procedure. If we want change, we need to focus better on what's holding us back.

On edit: Why didn't Harry Reid change the rules to control the filibuster when he had the chance?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. The mistake is thinking that it's "our" government.

"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same." Marie-Henri Beyle - aka Stendhal.