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Ireland tries what the US needs: abolishing the Senate

By davidswanson - Posted on 23 April 2011

This is from Miller-McCune:

Caught in a devastating economic crisis, Ireland considers killing off this political body, the Seanad Eireann, which many see as a vestigial organ from the country’s bifurcated founding.

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why stop
Submitted by sepia mutiny on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 3:53pm.

halfway?

because the house can be turned into a representative govt
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 6:07pm.

unless you have a better idea

Not without
Submitted by sepia mutiny on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 1:18pm.

first removing from power those who buy up our congress it cannot. It was the House of Representatives that just voted to eliminate Medicare, not the Senate (yet). Nor have I seen any evidence that my local government is any less bought and paid for. The problem starts further up the food chain than the senate. Unless you fix it at the root, you will not fix the problem of most of the nation's servitude.

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