Can You Really Call It Juggling When It’s Only One Ball?

In today’s world, with all the mult-tasking and time-sharing that pervades our lives and work; why is it such a problem for our leaders to handle more than one challenge or task at a time? Are these guys that incompetent, that they cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.

OK, I understand that the Health Care Reform bill was a big, complex and difficult piece of legislation to manage through the arcane and bureaucratic processes that are necessary to create a bill that meets all the requirements of Congressional legislation. And I can see how a bill that will affect so many facets of and players in the Health Care industries will be difficult to construct. After all, every representative and Senator has to find ways to insert language and requirements that meet the needs of his or her own special interest groups. These elected leaders need to make sure that they have ear-marked funds to specific parties in their constituents’ areas for whatever nominal amount of wasteful spending they could get allocated; or directed funding to businesses so that they will be insured that they will be able to pay out really good bonuses to their executives.

And then everyone gets all excited about jobs on Main Street, and small businesses. And, yes I can agree that jobs are an important part of our economy and society; but are you telling me that while the House and Senate committees in Congress were working on the Health Care Reform bill that that was all that the legislative branch of Government could be attending to? And are you telling me that the President and every cabinet member, and every Government department and agency were inundated and focused only on Health Care Reform?

You and I both know that that is absurd. There are separate parts of the Government that are explicitly set up to oversee and concern themselves with Health Care Reform versus parts that would be focused on jobs. Furthermore, there are elements in the Government who are routinely required to integrate and advise on everything, like the Congressional Budget Office. They don’t just look at Health Care Reform exclusively, they are always looking at everything.

So why are the Democrats and Republicans all realizing that jobs is something that we need to do something about? What where they doing for the last year?

Someone needs to take their gum away!