USING ONE PERSON TO DEFINE A GROUP OF PEOPLE

Too often we use one person to define a whole group of people.

For instance, you know one person who is too lazy to work and who is getting unemployment insurance payments. You decide that all unemployed people are exactly like the person you know.

You know one disabled person who you think is lazy. You decide that all disabled people are just too lazy to work.

You know one minority person who is a drug addict. You decide that all minority people are drug addicts.

I think that this is the logic that Republicans and Libertarians use when they decide that the government should not help the sick and the poor. I think this because I am fairly certain that the Republicans and Libertarians do not actually want to see people dying of starvation or from a curable illness.

As you know, I believe that laying off numerous governmental workers will cause the recovery to slow and cost us a LOT more money than we save.

You need to stop thinking of the deficit in terms of billions of dollars and start thinking of the defect in terms of percentage of income being borrowed to invest in the future. If the government was a business, banks would find that its debt to equity ratio was more than reasonable.

You invest in your own future when you buy a car using borrowed monies. My guess is that you spend a higher percentage of your income on that new car than the government spends on its debt.

We need to stop using scare tactics and start using logic and science to make our decisions.