Political Holograms


    
     The truth is a hologram: In order to see the complete picture, you must carefully observe it from the right, the left, the center, and several other perspectives. Viewing it from one angle deny you a complete understanding of the other elements that are only shown in the other perspectives. I thought about holograms and the importance of observing them from several angles during the presidential election. Tax cuts, spending cuts, cuts to entitlements, jobs, military spending, education, health care, insurance coverage, social security, andimmigration are political holograms that were discussed in the years and months leading up to the November 6, 2012 election. None of these topics, however, received the thorough, deliberate, and careful viewing these important holograms deserve. Tax cuts, which has been the single most dominant economic topic since 1981,was totally ignored by the presidential candidates, the senatorial candidates, the media, and virtually everyone else running for office – except republicans in conservative districts and republicans in recently (and favorably) redrawn districts, which assured them seats in congress.
     My goal in the upcoming days is to write/share in this blog the observations I made as I carefully observed each hologram from several perspectives.

by
James A. Porter

P.S. President Obama won the presidential election, which clearly demonstrates – “The Lord works in mysterious ways!”

    

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