http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304384104579139903054309502
Business is upset with how the Republican Party handled the budget situation and feel that the Republicans are beginning to move away from Big Business.
Do you think this is going to become a real problem?
There is a section in the article discussing compromise...
"Businesses worry that Congress will now be unable to tackle other big issues on their agenda, including immigration policy and overhauls to the tax code and entitlements. Success in any of these areas will require compromise, something business lobbyists and leaders say has been sorely lacking.
John Engler, the former Republican governor of Michigan who now heads the Business Roundtable, a trade group, said the normal legislative process—where bills are debated and passed by each house of Congress, and then marriedtogether—encourages compromise. "Today we have a significant number of people who don't want to compromise because they think they can win something that's been unwinnable," he said."
Do you think parties will be able to compromise in the future?
I think that they will have a very hard time compromising due to the extreme partisanship nature of our government that appears to be getting worse over time. I hope that one day this will change and that the government will work together in order to better the American people. But how will this change come about?
ReplyDeleteGiven that the Republicans just lost this stand-off it seems to me compromise is really going to be difficult in the future. A loss of this nature makes GOP more unwilling to compromise because they will risk losing considerable support from Businesses.
ReplyDeleteThis is the problem - winners and losers. Rather than us saying "well, Congress got us out of the mess eventually," we say "oh, one party lost." It perpetuates the issue.
DeleteI think people will always be able to come together work something out in the end. The question is, how much damage has been done and how much more severe will they grow? The cycle goes on.
ReplyDeleteCompromising has seemed to be an issue within government lately, but I think Tyler is right about how we should see things sometimes, they did get us out, and in time, maybe not in as much time as we needed, but does it really matter if it had been done a day or two before?
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