We didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on knowledge. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our religious lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Time” where actor Costs Murray wakes up and repeats the same event over and over and nothing ever changes, as with present-day Washington.

Why don’t we consult days gone by and good sense to be able to see that what others discovered still functions. Wisdom existed before the Internet in what Works: Common Sense Solutions to get a More powerful America and other styles of mass communication – and video gaming, Facebook and Twitter.

Today, we’ve more information than ever, but less wisdom; more speak, but less listening; more points in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example) and much less in the intellectual storeroom (that might be knowledge).

We KNOW what functions – historically and instinctively-but politics all too often gets in the way, as does ignorance. Too little people pay attention and the politicians quickly pick their storage compartments – literally and intellectually. That is why Congress has an authorization rating lower than cockroaches and colonoscopies and only somewhat above pedophiles.

Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, suppose we start concentrating on what promotes the overall welfare, regardless of which party or ideology gets the credit. It’s amazing what complications can be solved if solutions, not partisan gain, become the goal.

The American public is being “gamed” by politicians, the big media and additional “elites,” whose primary interest centers on themselves. When was the last tale you noticed on TV, or read within a newspaper, about anyone going after, much less attaining, a remedy to any significant problem?

This book is about solutions, not theories or an attempt to gain political advantage. It’s about pressuring our politics leadership to forget about the next election and begin focusing on the desires of the people who function hard to supply for themselves, send out their taxes dollars to Washington, and desire to see the nation accomplish something of value as it has always done. How about abandoning items that don’t work and start concentrating on what does work? The alternative is more of the past. And Bill Murray with the ground hogs.