Watching all the fuss in Washington over the debt limit it is obvious that neither side understands the word “compromise”.

That’s the new dirty word in America.

I can’t get 100& of what I want, and neither can you.

If you get 100% of what you want and run me over…I have no interest in the success of your victory. In fact, after I get over my anger at being run over, sulk a bit, I’ll figure out how to do everything I can to screw you.

And vice versa is true…if I “win” I’m just going to have to constantly watch my back because when you get a chance, you’re gonna shoot at me.

So instead we make a “deal”….. I get what is most important to me and you get something equally important to you and I can go back to my troops and say we won and you can go back to your troops and claim you won.

“Win-win”.

But to protect our “win” we have to make the deal work and not sabotage it because I want to take away what you won because you will turn around and take away what I won.

I get 50% of something and you get 50% of something instead of one of us getting 100% of ultimately nothing but more fighting.

Mick Jagger maybe said it best “you can’t always get what you want…but you will always get what you need.”

Winston Churchill: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”

Enough of the games in DC…solve the darned debt limit problem!

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