I think any truly successful adult would consider an ability to negotiate favorably a significant asset. I also doubt there are many, if any, accomplished professionals in any endeavor who haven’t negotiated in many ways for most of their lives.
If you stop and think about it, for most, negotiation’s something encountered quite early in life. Be it angling for a later bedtime, bigger allowance, skipping homework or bargaining for a day off from school to go to a ball game. The give and take of trading is a part of life for just about everyone. Only completely petulant kids say “no” continually, which is why they rarely accomplish anything good for themselves.
Since that’s the case, anyone ignorant, arrogant or naive enough to put a foot down, refusing to budge no matter, isn’t only cutting their nose off, they’re occupationally suicidal because they can’t possibly win.
And that’s why I’ve felt from the beginning that in the case of the government slimdown, Republicans had much to gain from not folding completely from the start, but looking for amenable tradeoff’s instead.
I believed that not because I think the Republicans are better in any political way, but nonetheless they had valid points. And more importantly, although the Dem’s were entirely wrong in their positions on the healthcare tax and increased debt, their really bad bet was believing their opponents would fold before a shutdown occurred.
But now 10 days have gone by and poll results are showing that voters hold both sides at fault almost equally while the incumbent’s personal job approval rating’s fallen to 44.3. Which means its likely he’ll finally get off his high horse and face reality for once, something he should have learned but didn’t a long time ago.
His refusal to negotiate, or even acknowledge an enemy’s existence, cost the lives of four U.S. citizens in the Benghazi attack.
Drawing an arbitrary uncrossable line in the sand forced him into a corner where he had to rely on Russia to get him out of Syria. The outcome of that huge gaffe is yet to be seen, but may come back to haunt him again.
Then there’s the unilateral ramming through of the health care tax, which the Republicans may not now have to worry about repealing. Because it not only got off to a horrible start, as each day goes by it looks like the systems going to blow up by itself. The only thing absolutely certain about it is that it doesn’t work and may net even be fixable.
So, I guess the questions the incumbent ought to be asking himself should focus not only on what refusing to negotiate really costs, but who’s ultimately going to pay the price? And the way things are going at the moment for him, I’d say it'll probably cost him a favorable legacy.
Along those lines, more and more information continually surfaces about those in government and their integrity, especially now where the IRS is primarily responsible for administering every citizen’s health care.
According to Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox on-line: “Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller.” Ingram said she was unable to recall the document in question during a Wednesday hearing."
With news like that, I wonder how most folks feel about the care and handling of their personal health care data by the government?
And then, there’s this one: “The $93 million website launched to process customers through the new ObamaCare marketplace may experience significant technical glitches for months, computer software experts told FoxNews.com. The experts observed numerous spelling errors in the coding of the website and point to the fact that the government skipped some elements in the testing phase of development in order to meet the Oct. 1 deadline. Experts tell Fox News some of the glitches could last into December.”
So, once again, as I stated several paragraphs ago, if Speaker Boehner seriously wants to undo the health care tax and take the credit, he better move very quickly. Because if he drags his heels for long, there won’t be anything left to overturn, because it’s going to destruct by itself.
That’s it for today folks.
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