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Should We Force a Housing Bottom?

good article and thoughtful comments by all.

i have an observation regarding what appears to be a near-universal view that our politicians are not only not serving us well but they are actually harming the country. it is this:

it is not just individual politicians who have failed...it is democracy itself. we have both a near-complete polarization between the major parties and a universal unwillingness on the part of elected officials in either to act on behalf of the public interest as opposed to their self-interest, which invariably is reelection.

to use an old but applicable cliche: nero fiddles while rome burns.

tell me...what has democracy done for us lately?