Three at One Blow!
The American public has the attention span of the average fruit fly (which isn’t long; a fruit fly’s lifespan is measured in hours). And like the fruit fly, we Americans can pay attention to only one thing at a time. “Fruit, fruit, fruit, fruit – hey! Is that Lindsay Lohan, Lohan, Lohan…?”
That’s too bad, and it’s why we Americans so often fail to see that the solutions to some of our knottiest problems lie in dealing with them more than one at a time. Like the clever tailor in the fairy tale, who killed many flies with one mighty blow, we need only take aim at more than one problem at a time and strike quickly to prove our might.
Take some big-ticket issues on the plate recently: immigration, education and the minimum wage. Start with immigration. In hopes of scoring political points, the GOP briefly raised the issue of […]
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