Debt Crisis Alternatives

The debt ceiling negotiations in Washington have been a dispiriting example of how a determined, organized minority can hijack the democratic process to blackmail the majority into accepting a disastrous, foolhardy and unpopular agenda. If this is how we're trying to sell democracy by example to the rest of the world, we're doing a terrible job.

 

Meanwhile, far from Washington, out here in the real world, lots of alternatives have been suggested. But nobody seems to be listening.

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