I have reduced my listening to the never ending debate over the government shut down and the debt ceiling limit.  Both of our political parties are to blame.

The president won’t negotiate and the Republicans won’t “surrender”.  That makes the nation the loser.

The price that will be paid will be higher interest rates.  All Americans will be paying higher taxes as a consequence.

While dancing along the edge of a financial cliff the political parties are putting our nation at risk.  It is a game of Russian Roulette.

I am sorry to say that Americans are to blame.  We have encouraged the congressional behaviour we are witnessing.

Respect for a form of government that is over 200 years old is appropriate.

From Encyclopedia Britannica

The Great Compromise, as it came to be known, created a bicameral legislature with a Senate, in which all states would be equally represented, and a House of Representatives, in which representation would be apportioned on the basis of a state’s free population plus three-fifths of its slave population. (The inclusion of the slave population was known separately as the three-fifths compromise.) A further compromise on slavery prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves until 1808 (Article I, Section 9). After all the disagreements were bridged, the new Constitution was submitted for ratification to the 13 states on September 28, 1787.