mandate.
But what about the marriages "created or saved"? How many of those were marriages of convenience to satisfy the partner mandate? How many of the marriages would have occurred without the law? And how does the federal government measure marriages "saved" by the partner mandate?
Clyde explained it to me with a knowing smile. "The whole point of the Act was to increase the number of marriages. Suddenly, critics of the President care why people get married? Isn't that awfully convenient?"
DateEx
Opponents and supporters of the Partnership Act argued bitterly over the Adequate Partner Requirements. They followed the progress of the partner mandate cases through the American legal system. One thing that brought both sides together, however, was the hapless federal dating exchange, DateEx.gov.
Rep. Nancy Polenta rolls her eyes when I bring up DateEx to her. "They ought to put those programmers on trial. DateEx was a criminal joke. We put billions of dollars into the Partnership Act. My sister ended up being matched with a crossdresser who just happened to have also said that he liked Coldplay."
The exchange was meant to be the most efficient method of gathering all partners together and guiding suitable people to each other. To that end, the Bureau of Partnership worked with their expert panels to develop a foolproof set of criteria to match people based on related interests. Then, using information on consumers obtained through advanced Internet traffic data and profiles generated by data brokers, the Bureau of Partnership would give