: Hi Charlie,
: Yup, a wonky lot, I are one.
: The single issue thingy is common to all democracies, we have it here too.
: US elections look simpler to figure than what we have, proportional
: representation. Have fun working that one out.
: I can work out displacements in my head if I have the coefficients for a hull
: type, it keeps me occupied when I'm walking, but I still can't work out
: PR.

: Mike Savage
: South West Cork

Mike I sometimes wonder if the parliamentary democracies don’t work better then ours in the U.S. Ours seems to have stalled on critical issues and is stuck in the mud. Our inability to get out of debt, from our government down to the individual is now threatening the rest of world, which is accelerated with the sub-prime mortgage mess we passed on around the world that was hidden in creative financing packages.

John