The more I follow politics the more I understand the need for compromise and collaboration. However, each party has to pander to their base and will not put forward bills that actually get things done. In business the concept is 'tone at the top" simply means that employees follow the 'tone' from the leader; Congress is no different. This is not to say that you don't vote for the best plan for your constituents, it means that if the President works with both parties and is obviously not completely bias than Congress will work across both parties to get things done, Today it seems that Congress will cut off their nose to spite their face. Examples: GOP members want "NO" increase in revenue ... not even if it is a 5:1 spending cuts to revenue increases. I understand their point, in the past bills that link spending cuts to increase in revenue seems to increase the revenue but don't cut the spending. In business you would set milestones and release funds when these milestones are met. Why not impose this in government? Raise the revenue, and release the funds when spending cuts are made. Democrats want no changes to social welfare, this is not realistic, their BIG issue is defense spending OK lets have a compromise: for every dollar in defense cuts we get equal dollars in social welfare cuts. The problem always stems from the decisions that each parties base wants to see. Business cannot run that way and neither should the government. I am convinced that a strong leader that is willing to work with both parties will get this country back on its feet. So far the only candidate seems to be Mitt Romney, my fear is that people will not vote for him because of is religion, my hope is that moderate democrats and independent voters will want Romney over Obama.
