There is one word involved in nearly all of the issues swirling around Washington and the world these days. That word is “uncertainty.”
If the full impact of the health care reform legislation was reasonably clear, both political parties would be a lot closer to coming up with a reasonable compromise.
ut that is not the situation. The Democrats are pushing and pushing and are in a sweat to make sure that a bill is somehow passed and enacted into law while they have such a lopsided advantage in votes.
And the Republicans say they also want to see a good way devised to improve health care insurance but don’t have confidence in the other party’s varied approach and in fact see calamity ahead if the massive piece of pending legislation goes through.
What ideas the Republicans do have are swatted down by the party in power without any debate which might point up the good and bad points of their proposals.
It is all clearly highly partisan.
Uncertainty also prevails in respect to the global warming question.
It exists as well when it comes to creating more jobs. Private businesses are highly reluctant to take action to expand and hire people when the company decision-makers don’t have reasonable confidence that they are operating in a stable climate of rules, regulations and credit. Yet it is private companies, especially smaller businesses, that are the principal source of new jobs.
And looming over everything is the huge and growing deficit.
Somehow the money borrowed for various uses has to be paid back. And simply printing money is bound to have serious consequences. Uncertainty abounds.
As the old saying goes, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
But it’s also certain that nothing beats uncertainty for holding back forward progress
