Is gridlock good for you and the country?

We have been talking about Government spending and high taxes for over 200 years yet both keep going up. Why don't we do something about that. Health Care has been debated for years (at least 50) and the people do not want the government running the health care system.

I have been anti government for decades. I have started over 11 companies in thirty plus years and no one hates the government more than me. That said, the number one concern for small business by the US chamber of commerce in 1981 was heath care. It was distroying small business, which is still the back bone of our country. For thirty years I have had to make the choice between hiring one more employee or paying for their healthcare. That is a choice I should never have to make. I have finally come to the conclusion that our corperations do not have the moral guidance to run health care. How many times have I ponied up money for an employee to get the healthcare they needed because the company I was paying to cover them refused to pay, I cannot count them up? This system has been a complete failure. Profit driven care for our citizens is just simply immoral. I hate the government being involved and not one of the plans that have been put forward are government run health care. I wish they were. Medicare, with the exception of that insane pharma give away three or four years ago is actually doing a better job than the for profits are. Yes it needs some fixing but it has saved a lot of people at a more reasonable cost than the private sector. I am out of ideas for fixing this but I can tell you that if we do not fix this we will be a third world country in the next few years. The cost is killing business and they cannot compete in the world when every other government has already fixed their systems. Some of their systems work and some of them don't but we know that ours dosent. Two years ago I dropped nine thousand a day for a hospital room. There is not a hospital room in the world that should cost nine grand a day. For that price I should build my own hospital. A group of my peers in business have sworn that we will not hire one more worker until this is fixed and I will fold the company before I pay one more price hike for a broken system. I will not work the reat of my life just for a dishonest insurance company.

"Gridlock is ALWAYS bad." - Wrong! There are times when maintaining the status quo is much better than a change for the worse; and, unfortunately, a lot of people forget that change does not always improve things. The changes Obama and the Democrat controlled House and Senate have been making over the past year have been proving that with very rare exceptions the changes that were made last year were for the worse! Staying the same may not be great; but, it is better than things getting worse and they can always get worse!

In other words, you are voting for politicians who will sit on their kiester and refuse to propose any legislature while blocking any other politician with an idea or proposal. You are only willing to vote for legislatures who will not legislate. That's gridlock! Why not just save your money and let the seats go empty. That makes more sense than what you are proposing....I repeat GRIDLOCK IS BAD BY DEFINITION! It is NOT maintaining a status quo. Even that requires work. Gridlock is the lack of all effort. It is stagnation NOT maintenance...Look it up in a dictionary.

Gridlock MEANS complete stagnation and lack of all progress or movement. It,by definition, doesn't allow for any change, movement, winning or losing. Gridlock is ALWAYS bad.

Well said :) I second this opinion.

I agree, we and theed to slow down and read the bills and understand the implication.

That's beside the point unless the Democrats that voted against it had previously spoken out in favor of it. Whatever their reasons for being against it may have been, there isn't the overwhelming evidence it was just to defeat the President. With the Republicans we don't have much doubt since it's basically their stated goal - to bring him down. Annie

"A group of 37 Democrats and 16 Republicans supported the commission, while 23 Republicans and 23 Democrats opposed it." By J. Taylor Rushing - 01/26/10 01:28 PM ET Looks to me as though there were some democrats who weren't on board either. Was it also important to them to obstruct something the President supports? If those 23 democrats had voted for it, it would have passed with 60 votes. Could those several republicans who supported the commission be the ones who voted for it?

You can't get anything accomplished in a gridlock. Gridlock means a total cessation of all action. It is a synonym for "stagnation". If you want to argue with Birch Bayh, at least try to understand what he is saying. what you are saying here is that stagnation is good and you can get things accoumplished by ending all action and doing attempting nothing. Oh, wait a minute that's the Republican way anyhow...OOPS!.