Change ain't easy

The Obama mantra was capital C change. Everybody craved it. Frankly what people craved was no more Bush. He got into office. He started to work. Now it seems like people don’t really want change.

Everybody’s pissed. It’s about the only thing people can agree upon. On one end change isn’t happening fast enough and on the other things are moving too fast. The point of agreement is on the health care bill. It must be stopped. Ask someone what they think about the actual content of the bill and the most likely response is an untruth. Death squads are untrue, although to be frank, some of you old people need to step aside. A mass government takeover is just silly. What doesn’t the government already control? Are you really going to notice an attempt, overpaid and probably misguided as it will be, to regulate the insurance industry? When people think that an industry that has created the most expensive and wasteful health care system in the world needs protection, we’ve gone off the deep end.

If there’s a way to get the bill passed, it’s going to get passed. It’s not going to make a lot of people happy. I guess there aren’t as many married people out there. Married people have to compromise. You don’t do it because you’re whipped, at least we hope not. You do it because compromise is a positive result for both parties. Nothing ends up the way you plan. Think about your career. Has it gone exactly the way you envisioned at age 21? I doubt it. This bill is not very different from the rest of life. It’s a starting point. It’s a campaign promise realized. That’s what people asked for. They seem to have forgotten that.