Bipartisan Struggle: Taxes and Benefits

* Unemployment funds running out...
* Tax that can't be decided on...
* Health care that wants to be scraped...
* Social Security that is broken...
* Medicare/Medicaid out of money...
* Jobs...
* Deficit...
* Don't ask, don't tell...
* START ( Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)...
* North Korea...
* Afghanistan...
* Iran...

These are just a few of the many items (PROBLEMS) that are, or should be on Congress agenda. Some, like the Unemployment situation and the Tax issue are urgent.

So, how does Congress go about prioritizing the agenda? How would you prioritize these PROBLEMS? Which PROBLEM would you fix first?


Well here is the one I would fix first, and it is NOT on the list above.

It is...  "PARTISANSHIP".

What is partisanship? Wikipedia defines it like this...

- "characterized by a lack of cooperation between rival political parties".
- " Framer James Madison  argued in the Federalist Papers that a danger to democracies were factions, which he defined as a group that pushed its interests to the detriment of the national interest."
- "According to Robert Siegel of National Public Radio, there has been virtually no cooperation between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. during the few years before 2010."

If you have following politics lately, I think you might agree that PARTISANSHIP is a BIG PROBLEM today. (As an example take a look at the Video below).

So I say again, FIX THE PARTISANSHIP PROBLEM first, as I do not see viable solutions (without decades of arguments) for the remaining problems until this one (PARTISANSHIP) is fixed.

The perplexing thing about this whole situation of fixing partisanship is that it ought to be simple. There need not be any new laws passed. The Supreme Court need not get involved. The "People" should not have to suffer.

All that is required is that a group of adults (Congress) act that way.

Just Say'n