THERE IS HOPE, after all. Some republicans are agreeing to go along with obamacare, including several governors and a congressperson or two. Before you know it, the word "compromise" will be dusted off.
Compromise is the key to american history. How else can it be in a country which for centuries was half slave and half free, with fifty one different legal systems which often conflict. Thomas Jefferson and alexander hamilton disagreed eery bit as much as obama and the republicans, but they served in the same cabinet; well, for one term, anyway.
There is a pervasive adversarial characteristic to american culture. Its written into our legal system, evident in our actions. One third of the world's lawyers are americans. IN any given year, the big book which lists the names of licensed attorneys in the U.S. contains at least a million names.
Look what's popular; whatever emphasizes violence and competition. this i can assure you; all across america, baseball and football games are held in which the players are all six years old, and the parents who are watching act for all the world as if they truly care which team wins.
Engage any educated american in a conversation in which you express an opinion about some public affair; see how long it takes someone to correct you; no, not how long it takes for a different opinion to be expressed, how long it takes someone to declare your opinion "wrong" and correct it. Not long.
Money is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. Using it wisely is merely a matter of intelligent decision making. Trying to collect as much money as possible in order to impress others with one's affluence is not efficient, healthy use of a valuable tool.
Government policies which degrade the very value of the very currency the govenmnet itself establishes for the benefit of all is sheer lunacy. We the people allow it to happen, and we the people can sure as hell stop it.
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