Gravy you point is well taken. Sometimes c...

2007-10-29T15:56:00.000-05:00

Gravy you point is well taken. Sometimes compromise can go to far, there's no question that's true.

However, when it comes to public policy, more often than not the difference between moving forward or standing still is whether the parties involved allow some give and take to be an option.

The Purzner administration insisted on everything being their way or the highway. As a result nothing was accomplished and the Mayor and most of her supporting Councilperson found themselves in the fast lane out of office (or out of town).

In a democracy, progress generally requires compromise. Sometimes the issue is too critical to budge, sometimes those compromises go to far and sometimes they have unintended consequences. However, most of the time compromise is the only way anything gets done.

Thanks for the video Sailor, your points on the fo...

2007-10-29T12:31:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the video Sailor, your points on the forgotten art of compromise are well taken. For example, our country never would have completed a constitution without the 3/5th Compromise or Missouri Compromise.

By compromising, the founder settled the issue of slavery for good.

And what about Neville Chamberlain's compromise with Nazi Germany prior to WWII.

The thing is that compromise does not satisfy the idea of Second Bests.

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