The price of redefining gun violence as an issue pertaining only to "those people" -- of casting and recasting the gun statistics to make them less grisly if only "those people" are toted under some different heading in some different ledger -- the price of that redefinition is to lose our ability to think about the problem at all.
Most of the time, when we think about a problem, the database the brain searches for a solution is narrow.
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So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about ways to solve the problem.
And here -- I think one thing that is I think so important to keep in mind, as an economist, the way we think about economic policy is, you know, what is the problem going on in the private market that creates a role for government.
For evidence of the problem, just think about the top corporate executives who chatted about reform with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the other day.
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And I certainly think that's a very serious problem about the top up fees approach.
Captain SCOTT STANFORD (Reservist, National Guard): I think the main problem with the strategy this time around is that he's talking about extending people that are already there in order to obtain this surge.
The problem for us is how do we get those people to recognise that the Conservative Party is relevant again and what I will do is say to my party, we now must be obsessed with the issues that obsess British people, health, education, the environment, the things that they think that for too long we don't care about and that's the real problem and challenge.
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And at least if they realize that there's a problem and they start to think about the solution, that will be a chance by itself.
And I think the memo really is a window into the inner workings of the Bush administration and how it thinks about the problem.
And if you think that way about homelessness, it changes the way you attack the problem.
The problem is that no one likes to even think about actually needing it.
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How can you reduce weapons in schools if you do not know what students think about guns in school and you have no clear idea of just how prevalent the problem is?
We need to seriously think about more investment in our overstressed infrastructure, and a new way of looking at the problem.
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But the fact of the matter is, is that if we don't think about using energy more efficiently, then we're not going to solve the climate change problem and we're not going to solve the energy independence problem.
"This is a problem that the world has been talking about since the 1940s, and I think we are much, much closer to resolving it today than we have been in the past".
Dr. O'BROCHTA: Well, because malaria is so dependent upon the mosquito for its transmission there are a number of ways one can think about attacking it as a problem.
Again, I think it would be -- well, it would demonstrate a lot about the willingness of those to actually solve a problem for the American people.
"It doesn't help the long-term problem (of rising tuition) and the hope is this will buy time to think carefully about how to make sure that all students can get the federal loans that they need on good terms, " said Sandy Baum, an independent policy analyst for the College Board.
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