Change is possible, just not maybe with our current system

Over the week, I found a few different articles that I thought would be interesting to some of my blog readers and I wasn't sure which one to pick. All of that changed when I saw this....an interactive way to let you solve the deficit, by the New York Times. Basically they give you a whole bunch of choices of programs to cut, taxes to increase and not to mention, those defense decisions. The challenge is to cut the deficit for projected budget gaps in 2015 and 2030. Let me tell you...its not as easy task.

That being said, it certainly do-able. As some may know, my skills in math are nonexistent. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Okay, well maybe a little bit. But that is not the point. That point is, that solving the deficit is possible. Despite the the loss in hope in President Obama's ability to overturn Washington, change is possible. We don't have to drown in red ink. It just has to be done by us. That is what the New York Times showed us.

Now I suppose the next question we have to ask is why isn't change happening in Washington? I mean, politicians are still human. They are supposed to know the system better than us. They are supposed to know policy. But more importantly, they are supposed to vote on legislation and create laws. Well here is where we find the problem. From my perspective politicians know policy and know the system more or less. The problem is the system. How come in the last 2 years where Democrats had control over 2 branches of government, we barely have any bills passing into law? (Some of you may want to count Healthcare or Financial Reform as something, but they are so watered down, they really mean nothing anyway).

It is the damn filibuster(if you don't know what this is, go take a political science class because that is just pathetic). This is causing the shit to hit the fan every time anything comes to the Senate. We can't pass anything because the minority party sets up this block.  You know, in the good old times, the minority party got in the spirit of things and actually stood up on a podium and read from the phone book. Now, filibusters are silent. If you ask me, that is just a rip-off.

Lets make things simple here and eliminate the filibuster. If you ask me, I think we should just abolish the Senate(I will talk about this in some later post). So go out and urge your Senator to make the change we need the most (hint: it's not those Bush tax cuts).