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Today's American government is in quite the dilemma. The House of Representatives and the Senate are too busy fighting over superiority than actually getting anything done. Thus, the government shut down. Now, normally we could just negotiate the terms of a budget and go on our merry way, but our leaders in said branches of this dying tree are too headstrong and arrogant to want to succumb to each other. We need to band together to fix problems, not separate ourselves. We need to talk about the things that are wrong, not put pins in them for later dates. We've been doing that for far too long. We've been living in wonderful bliss of ignorance to the problems in our government, but now the bulletin board is full of pins and papers. Too many, in fact. The government shut down is proof that our dying tree of a government is just procrastinating fixing the bigger issues like the debt and the budget and focusing of the more media appealing issues like gay marriage. The truth of the matter is we need to plant a new seed from the same tree before its legacy is lost forever.