How can the local, state and federal governments spend trillions of dollars year after year, decade after decade and never solve a problem?  They are not even on the way to solving any problems.  Our problems will never go away until politics as usual ends.  My introductory blog is the first step to getting the "D" and "R" out of politics and out of the way.

 

Even though my troubleshooting training and experience is in electronics, the basic troubleshooting skills can be and needs to be applied to any problem you wish to solve.  Our current governement does not apply any of the basic rules of troubleshooting.  All our current governement does is throw big piles of money recklessly at our problems with no clear plan of attack.  Solid troubleshooting skills must be adopted by both parties before any problem will be solved. 

 

The absolute first thing that must be done in successful troubleshooting is identify the cause of the problem.  The reason our money is wasted and nothing is solved is largely due to our feable attack on the symptoms of problems and total disregard for the true cause of these problems.  Secondly, one needs to understand that there are no single issues.  All the issues are connected.  If you touch one you touch them all.  We always need to remember an action will cause an equal and opposite reaction somewhere else.  When working on solutions to one problem the successful problem solver will take into account the impact their plan will have on other issues.  Next is use the right tool for the right job.  For the people in elected office the tool for any of our problems is information.  They have a great advantage of living in the information age.  However we live in the bad information age.  Good information is the right tool for this job.  Sloppy media, self serving special interest and politicians that are more likely to follow the herd instead of lead the pack constantly place road blocks between solutions and problems.

 

The last requirement is not really general troubleshooting but applies to solutions to our collective problems.  Any real solution is going to be a partnership between the three main segments of our society.  The people, the government and the business community.  Each of the three will have a role in every problem.  Our roles will not be evenly split in equal thirds, each issue will require a different specific formula for true success.

 

No plan will work until we adopt solid troubleshooting techniques.  Ideas good and bad will continue to fail until we change the way we evaluate and execute these ideas.  Common sense will do far more than any Senator.  

 

I intend to use this blog to put forth ideas geared to solving our problems.  I'm not conceeded enough to think these are the only ways to fix problems they are just a common sense approach our problems.  Hopefully these ideas will spark others to add constructive input and we can build real effective solutions by using all of our collective skills, experience and education.