Have you noticed that small problems encountered every day get solved in one way or another rather quickly – excepting those you would rather not deal with.  The latter are the kind where if you decided that the nail in the heel of your shoe is only digging a small hole in your heel, by limping you can get along until the pain must be dealt with.  There are so many problems small and large that solutions pop up sometimes and we get involved with complexity instead of simplicity.   The BIG problems that face huge numbers of people have no readily available solutions because they are not the size you are willing to deal with.

I found the air-conditioning was too cool in my position sitting in my lounge chair while reading this morning.  I was too lazy to 1. get a sweater, 2. shut off the air-conditioning, 3. move to another chair.  Instead, I opened the newspaper and spread it like a blanket over my chest and legs and snoozed for a bit until I realized that I had things to think about and things to write about. Thus, is solved a small problem with a simple solution.

Most big problems are like big buildings in bustling cities.  We crane our heads to see their tops and wonder how they got to be so high.  Big problems pop up seemingly overnight – not having noticing that they were always there but a bit below our notice until they got to be BIG.   These big problems just sit like the 900 pound gorilla in our home so we understand that particular gorilla can sit wherever he wants and we don’t bother ourselves with solutions to his presence.

BIG problems are weighing us down these days.  They are so many that we cannot distinguish one from the other.  We do understand that we don’t understand their complexities and are waiting for someone else to provide the solution to at least some of them.  The really difficult solution evades us in that we THINK that picking the right leader of the right party will solve all our problems.

My understanding of such BIG problems is that those offering the solution of less government and more individualistic private, profit making enterprises will make everything all right once again – you know, like it used to be.

Unfortunately, you have nothing to say about the BIG problems because they are the province of BIG Business and/or Big Government.  You have to make your choice in an election between two “parties” one advocating Private Enterprise and the other Responsible Government.  I don’t think anything this big has many solutions. There is just the choice between two philosophies, one of which subsists on pure selfishness while the other is supposed to be selfless pooling of resources and voting for progress. Make an educated guess. You are offered two choices which claim they are for change.            Change is sometimes good just for its own sake – but change for the sake of keeping privilege in power is not in the best interests of the most of us.  Please vote for Obama.