Politians and politcal parties fail us

The recent debt ceiling agreement shows how low our politicians and political parties have sunk. The compromise reached between the right, the far right, the left, and Obama, raised the debt ceiling but it failed entirely in almost every other aspect, a view shared by Bloomberg:

Congress's agreement on debt ceiling is an alarming bipartisan mess

Not only did it fail to solve any of the nation's long term problems of budget deficits, wealth inequality, and tax inifficiency, let alone begin to address future needs such as education and infrastructure, it made the short term problems worse by harming the economy.

These elected officals have failed us, and failed our nation. Shame on them all.