Debates Like Ignoring Doctor’s Dire Prognosis or Facing Pats as Jr. High Team

As I watched last night GOP debate and looked ahead to the weekend’s next Democratic debate, I thought about a couple of scenarios.

Here’s the first.  You go to the doctor.  He tells you – you are about to be hit with diabetes and cancer.  If you don’t change your lifestyle soon and for a long time, you will either lose a limb, be incapacitated, or die.

What do you do?  You go home and ingest 10 meals loaded with sugar, carbs, and fat.  You smoke a pack of cigarettes.  You down a case of beer and chase it with some illegal drugs.  Then you sit down and watch the political debates of both parties.

Watching the political debates is like killing the health of our fragile yet fully fixable economy.

Instead of watching last night’s debate and Saturday’s upcoming debate, you should do this.  Read a column by the Washington Post economics writer Robert J Samuelson.  It is called The Flight From Reality.  Here is the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-flight-from-reality/2015/10/18/3dea14ba-742b-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html?postshare=8071447174420614

I urge you to read it.  Samuelson cuts through the political bullshit of both parties and shows how our lives are going to be effected for years to come.

I am not going to sugarcoat it. It is depressing. There are two reasons.

I will give you more truth in this show than you will get from the whole election campaign.