I Thought We Were All Adults Here

The government shut down has sparked controversy, emanating from both parties, and it is all the same thing: it is the other party's fault, we are doing what is best for the American people. In an article written by Carrie Dann and Michael O'Brien titled "Latest GOP shutdown proposal fails; no separate funding for vets, parks", it is detailed at first about the different bills proposed by the Republican House that were struck down in the house by the Democratic minority. These three bills aimed to provide funding for Washington D.C., national parks, and Veterans Affairs Department respectively. The rest of the article is basically all the examples of the Republicans and Democrats playing the blame game.

I think this all stems from one simple thing: the parties are trying to sound centrist so as to appeal to a majority of the American population in order to gain support for their part of the "blame game". Last time I checked, we as the American people, elected adults to make policies that benefit our country and not to shut down the government because they don't like legislation. In fact the article also stated at the very end, that a poll taken by Quinnipiac University showed that seventy-two percent of American say that they oppose the Republicans using the government shutdown as a last resort to stop the implementation of Obamacare. I think this shows that the people of this country are ready for compromise to really happen and keep the government running and work out the kinks under that premise


http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/01/20772110-latest-gop-shutdown-proposal-fails-no-separate-funding-for-vets-parks?lite&preview=true