In my Facebook feed the other morning, I saw someone sharing one of these notions that seems like basic common sense, until you start thinking about it and realize that common sense is often more common than sense. The claim was that you can put the fiscal cliff—the federal budget, really—in better perspective by taking eight zeroes off the end of a series of numbers and thinking of it as a family budget.
Now, families and governments actually aren't a good comparison, as economists (and common sense, if that's your speed) would tell you. But since a lot of people find this basic idea a powerful comparison, let's think about what if the United States was a big extended family living under one roof with one budget.this is a must read for a better look at what we're told and what it really is. republicans make solutions sound so simple if we just tighten our belts and let them be the ones enjoying the elusive American dream, the analogy is spot on and more of a eye opener and educational piece to what our problems are and that what we hear as common sense solutions are just common among the list of how to fix without fixing anything for dummies by the republicans
who have managed to fool their base into a loop of nothing and they cheer and race to the voting booth armed with no plan no specifics not even who they are voting for really is primary guy or general election guy and who will he be post election guy.
what i'm saying is if we don't think and act for ourselves the one who gets to do it for you may very well not give a gnat's crap about you or your problems. listen to the rhetoric it's a verbal road map x doesn't always mark the right spot of preferred destination. recognize
