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In the New Republic on September 14, 2011, Mr. Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget said:
"To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."
Well, dictatorships are nothing, if not efficient. Our Republic was intended to be inefficient - to prevent the national government from threatening our liberties. Looks like we better discuss this.
Resolved: That in the name of "efficiently solving the nation's problems", power should be taken from the Legislature and given to the Executive.
Submit your best response - on either side of the resolution - using the form on the left. Either type/paste it into the Message field or upload a file in a standard format (*.doc, *.pdf, *.txt).
Remember: no more than 450 words.
The best Pro and Con will appear in our blog and each will win a $50 gift card.
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