LOST

I am stumped this week to come up with something clever, maybe funny.   I wanted to find a simple, obvious in its need, topic that we could all come together and agree that it is a problem worth doing something about ----- together.  It is a challenging task as there is nothing, I could say that you could not find an objection if you looked deep enough. The Inflation Reduction Act has 755 pages.  I am confident that there is something for everyone to hate in this piece of legislation.  However, there is probably a number of things you good like.  The problems we face as a community of people are so complicated.  There is nothing simple about any of the issues that we as a country or the world face.  It will take massive amounts of money, willpower, courage, and compromise to even approach a solution for anything that impacts a community on a planet of 8 billion people wandering around looking for answers.  I haven’t read the 755 pages in this legislation and I am sure most of our elected representatives have not read it either. I am confident, however, that some of this legislation will be a positive step to correcting the incredibly complicated issues it tried to find an answer to.  Given that it is flawed as all legislation is; given it does not fix completely the issues it tries to address;  given we as a country have never even tried to solve these issues; and finally given that it is a first step, flawed as it might be ------- Is there  no Republican (or the Republicans they represent) that could summon the courage to vote for a first step? Really?

Are we that lost as a community…?