What's Your Problem?

Sometimes in our zeal to find a solution, we make a fundamental error that deposits us inside an imaginary house of mirrors with no obvious way out. Take politics for example. Both the left and the right in country are 100% sure that if the other side would just adopt their solution, then our country could again move forward and exit this economic funk we have been in since 2008. And so we find ourselves trapped, unable to convince the other side that one side has a better solution for what ails you. The truth is that no solution being proposed is likely to make much of a difference and has almost no chance of being embraced by the other side. Why? Because the problem is not the solution. The problem is the problem. Until we as a country can agree as to what the problem is, how can we possibly work together to find a solution? Is the problem the rich, fat cat Wall Street bankers who are literally swimming in money ala Scrooge McDuck? Is the problem lazy liberals who refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions and spend the day sitting around complaining about others instead of working hard? Or is the problem somewhere in between, with both sides being partially right, yet also partially wrong? Could it be true that a small percentage of people growing extremely wealthy while others in the country fall though the cracks might have a negative effect on our union? Could it also be true that government, in some case does need to get out of the way and let that good old American entrepreneurial spirit take hold? You see, there are a myriad of potential problems that may or not be addressed by the solutions currently being offered. But that’s why the problem is the problem. As any good businessman will tell you, we need to agree on that first, and then we can start to work together on some solutions.