What we need to realize and explain to the American people are three simple things.

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The scale of the problems of the past means that in the weeks and months ahead we will need to continue to explain what went wrong and what we are doing to fix things.

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If you have questions about this, see the infographic (right) that Microsoft released to explain why we need Windows 7.

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For now, we invest most where our capital is most wanted, give alms to the growing number of people who will need them, and in the meantime we patiently explain to our fellow citizens once again why the economic stagnation they face is the inevitable result of bad policy, and what we would have to do to get America back to growth.

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We need to stop surrounding the cloud with a fog of tech-speak and explain to potential users what it can do for them, rather than focusing on how it works.

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Maybe what we need is someone who can explain the tax system to the voters.

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So far so simple but we need to add two more little facts here: only two more and we can explain what happened.

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If they want those members who believe that we should achieve deficit reduction only on the backs of senior citizens and vulnerable Americans and the middle class, they need to explain that.

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