One of the basic rules of elementary school is to learn to stand in line, wait your turn and cooperate and compromise until a solution where everyone is a little happy and everyone is a little unhappy.
At both the state and national level, compromise has become a dirty word.
The public’s disdain for Congress was found by a Gallup poll that showed earlier this year that Congress’ approval rating had sunk to 13 percent, its lowest figure this late in an election year since such polls began in 1974.
According to Sept. 3, 2012 Time Magazine, Senate Republicans held their own retreat in January 2009. Senator Mitch McConnell suggested a stratagy. Republicans could turn  Obama into a promise breaker by withholding all support. “If Obama was for it, we had to be against it,” said Senator George Voinovich.
The Democrats retaliated, and the U.S. public who voted these people into office, were the ones that paid for these overblown egos who are not doing what’s best for this country and even shooting themselves in the foot.
In reality, it will take more failures, more stalemates for the public to say enough is enough. As Americans, it is our duty to learn about these candidates, not just on their goals on social issues, but on financial as well.
To learn is to go to legislative coffees at the local level, and tell legislators that we want some things done that will help the majority and just no one sub-group of wealthy people.
We want good schools, hospitals, and roads. We have to pay for those things-all of us, not just the wage earners.
We now have a legislature in Kansas where a clear majority is Republicans. They can use the skills they learned in grade school, or they can follow their own party’s agenda.
John F. Kennedy said it best. “Ask not what your country can do  for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
We want legislators with honesty and integrity, who will risk shunning and stand for right.
These legislators were elected for the good of the majority. Legislators, please use the faith that has been entrusted to you.

Karen La Pierre