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Federal government back in operation

Just in case you didn’t notice with all the non-warranted hoopla over the Vikings’ shot at an NFC championship, the federal government shut down. It’s up and running again, albeit on a short schedule.
Our U.S. senators are patting themselves on the back for achieving a compromise bill that will keep the government open — for at least another three weeks.
It’s hardly milestone legislation, although it’s being touted that way at the Capitol. The compromise bill does clean up one item — the extension of the lapsed Children’s Health Insurance Program, also known as CHIP, which will provide relief, at least for now, for those who rely on its services for medical care for children.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was also on the table, and was a prime issue with Democrats. Dems want to continue DACA, Republicans would like to phase it out. The Republicans did concede to have a vote on a bipartisan plan to fix the program, but that’s not likely going to preserve the program.
But despite the so-called “compromise,” there is still no long-term budget plan on the horizon. We may well be seeing another government shutdown in less than a month.
That is not compromise politics. That is a band-aid approach to doing business and kicking the political can down the road, a habit that has become unforgivably ingrained in our political system and one which must stop now.
America was once the shining ideal of how a democracy should, and can, work. Now, countries all across the globe are sneering at our president, and deriding our inability to govern effectively.
It’s time we return to our ideals of government, and give up our grip on our polar politics. If we don’t, we are teetering even closer to the brink of disaster.
— L.C.