American Change

I'm as bamboozled by all the Affordable care mechanisms as is everybody else.

It's a problem.

I'm not bad at problem solving.

Here are some things that I know.

You can change without improving but you can't improve without changing.

We want to improve affordable care, pretty sure everybody agrees with that.

So we've got to change.

Who are "we"?

For the sake of argument, let's say "we" are the elected representatives in large part Democrats and Republicans.

Here's how the Republicans change. They give Obama credit for the political capital he was willing to spend to confront the problem of health care. They stop blaming him for getting this vehicle on the road. Blame doesn't help. Give Obama credit for what he did.

Here's how the Democrats change. They accept the credit and realize that the only way we're gonna get anywhere is through collaboration.

I know that collaboration. In terms of baseball, collaboration is home plate. To get to home plate and score a run, a player must touch first base, second base, and third base before home.

First base is comprehension.

Second base is communication.

Third base is Co-operation,

Collaboration is home.

I don't know if "we" have gotten to first base yet but I'm willing to give Obama credit for a single.

"We're on first.

Does it matter 
who" we are if we're on the same team. 

This isn't Abbot and Costello.

This here's America, the United States of...not the Divided States of.

The majority is at bat. Its job is to advance the runner.

Its immediate job is to communicate which might require some sacrifice.

Sacrifice in political terms is to share the credit and the blame.

Blame is the communication breakdown which is driving us all insane until it is shared and then forgotten as we "go forward".

The past is prologue.

It's beating the beejezuz out of Cool Hand Luke and calling it a "failure to communicate."

Let's stop beating the bejeezus out of each other.

Then maybe we can communicate what we each comprehend.

Thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis.

Now we're co operating'.

The temptation at third is to turn co-operation into competition. Everybody is afraid to co-operate because the other guy might be competing. We've got to put down the weapons. We've got to shake hands. We've got to calibrate to make sure we're on the same page or the same chapter or the same book.

Pretty sure, we're already on the same book which is called "Better living for Americans".

Better Health care, more affordable.

We've already got that plan but it's leaking.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathtub.

We've already got the car on the road.

Now we've got to steer it which takes perpetual correction as do all products of creativity.

So we take it down the road apiece, knowing before hand that when we approach an intersection, we have to stop or use caution.

One third of the time, we'll get a green light so we can just keep going the way we're going.

We're not gonna sacrifice the good for the perfect.

All of us don't need to approve of every correction.

We're going down the road together.

At the same time that we're going down the road, we are improving the road itself.

Sometimes "we" have to take a detour.

Sometimes "we" need a U-turn.

If we're calibrating, collaborating and complementing, we've got a GPS.

If not, "we" don't even have a map.

Or maybe even a vehicle.

You know what "we" got.

In the end "we" got each other.

"We" change and we improve.