The real problem that has sparked this huge debate with health care is a deeper issue that I've been seeing over the past 20 years: No one wants to compromise right now. Both parties have become too polarized and will not cooperate with the other.
True. You can blame Mr. Hope & Change himself for that. He refuses to talk to anyone that isn't on his side and gets frustrated with anyone who asks him a tough question. Anyone that watched the interview with him and Bret Bair on Fox knows what I'm talking about. You could see him getting angry. He had this look on his face like "how dare you question me!?" And then there's the whole "I, I, I, and my, my, my" in his speeches. Our President is suppose to unite us, not divide us.
But I don't blame one party for this mess we're about to get deeper into, or the political system for that matter. I blame society in general. In particular, the group that wants everything handed to them. They want the government to pay for their healthcare, provide them with a job, pay for the education, and they don't want it to punish people who break the law. They're unwilling to do anything for themselves. It's them that have allowed garbage like this to happen. I was reading a book about the depression a week or so ago, and it had some quotes from those who lived during that time. One guy said something like "if people today had to go through what we did back then, they wouldn't last a week." I think he's right. Sad. Very sad.
