priorities

While congress works out deals to ensure that the rich get richer and everyone else gets screwed other pressing matters remain unaddressed.
It should be clear to everyone by now that we live on one planet which is one giant interconnected environment that is becoming dangerously degraded by one species (people) with a seemingly insatiable demand for consumption through a flawed system we call free market.
Rather than address important issues, the congress will distract itself and the public with don't ask don't tell trivialities. It's a waste of time and energy, two things we're running out of. Besides having the guts ripped out of the US manufacturing sector, we have helped to create two hungry giants that now compete for dwindling energy sources. Perhaps you'd care to read about China and India's Growing Energy Rivalry....you probably should because the better educated we are, the better we may fair. China is the world's most populous country and therefore has a significant impact on the rest of the world. Yikes, look at what development has done for them.