The Blame Game

Our family isn't exposed to a lot of media.  I listen to NPR a little bit each day and that is primarily where I get any kind of national or international news.  With dial-up

internet, I don't bother reading any online

news publications unless I come across an interesting

link to check out.

Yesterday while listening to NPR, I couldn't 

help but be amazed at how our government

is wasting more time and money by holding a 

hearing to find out who is responsible

for the lousy job that was done with the new health 

care web site.

How does that make things move forward?

I really don't get it.  It is kind of like if one of the children leaves

the front door open in really cold weather and I just stand there

by the open door calling each child 

down one at a time asking if they

were the ones that left it open.  In the 

meantime, the house is just getting

colder and colder.

Wouldn't it be better to problem solve?  When something isn't right, 

first let's figure out a better solution.  Perhaps the people responsible

for making the health care web site simply failed.  So what?  Learn from the mistakes, move

forward and make it right.

I sure don't want my children to worry about doing something challenging because they

might fail or make mistakes.  

That is learning at its best.

The blame game doesn't help anyone.