I’m not sure if everyone reading this article will agree with me, but hasn’t 2019 seemed like a long year?
While it is still 365 days long, it has seemed much longer than that. At times, it has been a frustrating year. At times, it has been an exhausting year. And yet, at times, it has been an exciting year full of promise of better times ahead. To me, our political climate has never been more divergent with everyone seeming to be at one extreme or the other. Whatever happened to the middle ground where things got done? It doesn’t seem like that long ago when Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O’Neill would have a cocktail together in the White House telling jokes and getting along. They didn’t totally agree with each other, but they came to compromise for the good of the country. Even Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich gave us the last balanced budget our nation has experienced. Today, the noise coming out of Washington is deafening, and I think most in our industry would agree it’s both frustrating and exhausting. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will get any better next year as the election draws closer.