Comments about ‘Refuse to compromise’

Mr. Chappell, that's a recipe for paralysis and failure.

Yes, but who?

The people who might be able to do so don't have enough money to try and run for office. And those who are running have already been purchased by those who control the purse strings.

The refusal to compromise is the foundation for totalitarianism. Is that what you want? Or do you want a democratic society where people come together and iron things out?

Paul. The conservative Tea Party refused to compromise recently, claiming that "principal" was all important during the debt ceiling debate and it seriously hurt the countries credit rating. Your hard nosed approach is not practical and never has nor never will work. The art of politics will always demand reasonable compromise, and right now it is mostly the hard right wing that will not do it, no matter how much havoc their recalcitrance creates.

Refuse to compromise.
Refuse to compromise?

My way, or the Highway.
Take it, or leave it.

This is America.
We are a Democratic Republic.
Our entire system of Government was created via Compromise.

If you want a Totalitarian Regime - get out.
I will not stand by or tolerate your trampling of our Country or Constitution.

How's that for Refusing to Compromise?

Refusal to compromise is a classic symptom of immaturity.
like a toddler that refuses to share toys.

Compromise is just kicking the can down the road. It got us 15 trillion in debt, and all government spending close to 100% of GDP.

We're in debt because:

#1 Ridiculous tax cuts that have cost our country. They have not stimulated the economy. But have driven up debts.

#2 2 Unfunded wars.

#3 Medicare part D, passed by Bush and Big Pharm's lobby.

#4 A slumping economy with bailouts needed to prevent a complete Depression.

AM radio and foxnews want you to think that we're in debt because of hungry people and grandma. In reality, it's the 4 reasons above.

Compromise is essential WITHIN the limits set by the Constitution. To ask someone in Congress to compromise his values and his integrity to pass legislation that falls outside the limits put on Congress by the people is to ask that Congressman to conspire to break the law.

No person with integrity will ever compromise his integrity to help others break the law.

Hopefully, none of us would compromise with Robin Hood who would have us steal from the "rich" and give to the poor. Robin Hood was breaking the law. Congress is breaking the law when it redistribute assets from person to person. Congress is allowed to tax us for seventeen duties. Personal welfare in not on that list.

There will always be people who compromise away their souls for momentary gain. Our Congressmen don't have to be part of that crowd.

So Paul you do of course realize Henry Reed is not your senate rep right? He has no obligation to represent your conservative paralysis views and trying to erroneously tie Hatch to him only speaks to the weakness of your overall argument.

Mike,

You are right to an extent.

If a person has a narrow view of the constitution. One that is different than most, including the supreme court, they must compromise. It is not their place to interpret the constitution, it is the supreme court.

@ dave, I sure wish someone would tell that to Mr. Filibuster, Sen. Mike Lee, who has put his own judgment above the rest of the Senate and the Congress, the Executive branch and the court system.

Mike Richards Robin Hood actually stole from the government not the "rich" just a little historical fact check for you. Also compromise is absolutely necessary in a debate of this magnitude. Let's break this down into a debate about personal finances with you and a spouse. You two are debating about what activities and donations you need to cut. Both are refusing to cut of their pet projects. Neither one are willing to participate in the give and take exchange needed to cut out excess crap that as a couple is crushing them financially. To top it all off they are in serious debt. What will happen if they continue this course. Their house will be taken from them and their family torn apart. However if they compromise and work together untied in becoming a more perfect union then and only then can they beat back the debt and keep their family together.

The same principles apply to government! If the two sides don't compromise on what they need to cut and what they want to do then there will be stagnation and greater debt. Thereby breaking the back of the nation.

When the White House or Republicans announce that a bill is dead on arrival as they frequently have, is that standing on principle or failing to compromise? One man's principle is another man's intransigence.

Let's elect someone who does. Drum roll please, it's Official now, both Sens. Harry Reid and Orrin Hatch claim to follow the constitution. Neither do. Orrin Hatch even tells Obama he can't be like Jesus, because of taxes. Orrin Hatch has been in office way too long, 36 years, he's scared to write a Bill for Term Limits, that means you don't do the Senate, then run for a seat in the US House, then burn that out and re-run for another term in the Senate, burn that out then run for President, and then V.P, then back to the Senate again, it means 2 years and then your done for any Office ever again, with real teeth in the Bill like this. This guy is a Rhino and he has got to go. At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president took what has always been a non-partisan opportunity and political agenda, Hatch complained. He suggested to the attendees that Jesus would have supported his latest tax-the-rich schemes. Hatch just wants to tax the poor and middleclass. With due respect to the president, we ought to stick to Koch Brother's public policy he said.

Don't compromise on the principle "Live within your means." Do compromise on which programs to cut. Let the Constitution be your guide.

Arm of Orion,

If you had a master budget that you and your wife had agreed on BEFORE you sat down to compromise and if WHEN you sat down to compromise, you found that YOU had gone off budget and that YOUR spending had caused near bankruptcy, what would be YOUR first course of action? Would it be to try to get your wife to stop spending for ON BUDGET items or would it be to admit that YOU were off budget, that YOU had caused the entire problem and that YOU needed to replace those funds and never go off budget again?

Honest people stay within the law when they are asked to compromise. They don't choose the lessor of two evils. They do not bargain away their souls. They stay within the limits that they AGREED to stay within.

We cannot have a "more perfect union" when the Constitution is set aside every time someone wants to spend more of our tax dollars.

Paying for personal welfare is not a duty of Congress. No compromise is possible on that item.

We've "compromised" our way to 15 trillion in debt.

Both political parties are guilty.

How much higher should we raise the "compromise"? 20 trillion, 30 trillion?

U.S. citizens MUST come to understand that government can't be everything to everybody.

We must compromise on spending cuts, NOT raising taxes - on ANYONE or ANYTHING.

We MUST reduce the role government (especially the central government)plays in our lives.

People have been screaming and crying about the national debt for hundreds of years. Their argument is that catastrophe is eminent and can only be avoided by paying off the debt. Yet through it all America has not only survived, we actually got better off.

Your upside/down philosophy seems to have you believing that good is bad and bad is good. All your freedoms and rights come from our joining together in a mutual government. The reason government must not be limited by itâs enemies is so that it can do itâs main job, the governing of its members.

Without a government powerful enough to govern the private interests of corporations, businesses, unions, churches, religions, et., you will be governed by a group much more oppressive than your government.

People who want to limit our government should be regarded as criminals. Just like those criminals who would want us to limit the police.

It is impossible to be debt free in a debt based monetary system.