Your Economy OT - Conspiracy, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, War

[Ayock]

Even the Big Picture concept can be flawed...

if YOUR big picture doesn't match someone else's Big Picture.

Imagine two people charged with putting together a single jigsaw puzzle...each one of them gets a different box top picture to use as the final picture goal...spread the pieces, start the project and then stand back and watch the sparks fly as each defends their Big Picture scene as THE REAL PICTURE of reality.

Think Globally, act Locally...and first - get on the same sheet of music.

Adding a political spin to it...

...Minimum wage is another issue you see this with. Republicans constantly paint it as a “job killer” (it’s not) while also rallying against the millions of people who are on government assistance. Funny thing though, a good portion of the Americans who are on government assistance have jobs. If we made sure that no American working full-time had to rely on government programs just to survive, instantly we would save our country hundreds of billions of dollars over the years. Not only that, but when Americans have more money, they have more to spend. And what’s the biggest driver of economic growth? Consumer spending. More consumer spending means higher profits and higher demand, which means - more jobs. But once again, when it comes to Republicans and explaining job creation, anything outside of “tax cuts create jobs” is often too complex for many of them to understand.

The same goes for war. When it comes to ISIS, Republicans just want to send in troops and “crush the terrorists.” They’ve hammered President Obama relentlessly about how he’s handled the entire situation. See, to many of them, they just want to go in guns blazing because that’s what sounds good. But as we’ve learned by our previous war in Iraq, going into these situations haphazardly without a plan leads to absolute chaos. Remember, the existence of the ISIS we see today is a direct result of Bush’s Iraq War. When it comes right down to it, I really do believe a huge part about why so many of the non-racist Republicans are against President Obama is because many of them are simply unable to grasp his “big picture” thinking that drives a lot of his policies. That requires intelligence and far too many conservative would rather just be told what to think by Fox News. They want their policies to be so simplified and catchy that they fit on bumper stickers.

It’s like I’ve often said, Democrats are trying to use science, math, reality, history and education to reason with people who deny science, don’t trust math, create their own reality, distort history and often devalue quality education. And that’s a big reason why we’re not getting anywhere in this country.

Read more at: www.forwardprogressives.com/simple-truth-president-obama-intelligent-republicans-understand/