Broken II: Fairy Tales

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Actually, there is one legitimate sense in which one could say that our government is broken. We are approaching a fiscal disaster because of out of control entitlements. Everyone in Washington knows it, but the government is unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Even here, though, the problem isn't a process issue. The problem is that most Americans aren't ready to face up to what needs to be done, and, when it comes to entitlements, prefer fairy tales to reality. So it isn't Washington that is somehow "broken," we are experiencing one of the perils of living in a democracy.