Kludgeocracy

[Xiahou]

I think the idea has to do with why the US seems to have a less efficient goverment than most of the west. Kludging by itself is something you'll get in all larger organisations, the critical is how you deal with it.

A major difference is that the USA was never designed to have a large all-controlling central government. It's taken a system of dodges, end-runs and dare I say... kludges to get us here. Congress can't transparently come out and pass the laws they'd like- they have to wrap them around frameworks that they don't really belong to.. like the Commerce Clause.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Good luck "streamlining" government; ie. eliminating checks and balances when you can't even pass a budget. A political party who wants to cripple the system merely needs to refuse to finance the Federal government and the whole thing can come crumbling down. Want to solve a problem? Solve it at the state level. Maybe this can finally be the end of the federal behemoth. Have we finally figured out a way to debilitate the abusive system?

The 2 Houses should refuse to pass all laws, the President should veto everything, the Supreme court should uphold every right of individuals and then States over the central government. Devolution of authority, destruction of the central planners.

This is how modern wars should be fought. Use of procedure is the only way we can stop the Federal government from consuming every power there is. Any time people threaten the foundations of the governmental system, I'm for it. I only support the rights protected by the government, the government itself is an necessary evil that seems more evil than necessary these days.

An adjustment is needed. The American people can either throw the GOP out of every position of power or allow some federal powers to atrophy. Let's go for bottom, nobody lives forever

[Xiahou]

I think this fits in well with my earlier points in the thread....
Amid surge of the cut-rate 'sharing economy,' a backlash grows

Allow me to sum up the article I've linked. People find more efficient and cheaper ways to get the services they need. The government and their favored businesses are mad that someone is horning in on their turf. So the government proposes laws to shut them down.

It's disgraceful.