If you'lll sit tight for a moment I'll explain "Problem - Action - Solution" Theory and give an example of how its being used right now in politics. "Problem - Action - Solution" is used to pass sweeping measures on subjects which work well for the classes in power but lack support from the general population.

FIRST, you need to create a "problem" or address a current problem in the market you hope to change. It is unimportant if your "problem" actually carries weight, or even if the "problem" has been created by those who will seek to solve it, the problem simple exists to be demonized.

Once to problem is out in the open and the general population is scared you can move on to the next step, "Action" which is usually the point of the whole exercise. Once a problem has been created and hyped the public will demand that you act in one way or another. At this time, while the public is rabid for action and feeding on the information you give them it is much easier to pass sweeping actions that would be unpopular and possibly fail in other times. Now, at this point, the measures you hoped to enact are on the table and moving, but it gets better.

Now that you've provided a "solution" to the artificial "problem" that you yourself created it is key to cap off the action with a "solution". In this phase you are essentially setting the public relation machine to both hail you, those you represent, and/or your policies as the saviors or the public who were led by coercion to support action they normally would have opposed. "Solution", at its core, is a celebration of subversion and the policy makers control over the general populace. This is done by painting the action taken as successful and putting an end cap on it.

In an example "We had a huge problem, then we solved it by doing action X, and now, we see that action X was just and the only sane decision. The problem is solved and all is well. Any who speak otherwise are foolish and harmful to the status quo and its policy."

So, when policy makers and scientists gather from all over the world in Copenhagen to tell is that Carbon, one of the key building blocks of life, is an evil pollutant and that WE are changing the temperature of the world, you can easily recognize the "Problem". Stepping to the news the next day you might see proposed actions to limit the level of emissions that countries are allowed to produce or possibly "carbon taxation" or "carbon allowances" to be enacted on the personal lives of the public. This, hopefully, you will recognize as the "action", the entire reason that the "problem" of "man made global warming" was at first created (strangely brought to the public eye and championed by politicians). Lastly, in who-knows-what timetable, once sweeping measures have been enacted and the proper "solution" been put into effect, we can all be hailed as the saviors of earth while those in power continue to rape the land, pollute the waters, and clear-cut the rain-forests. Problem. Action. Solution.

If you need further examples of "Problem-Action-Solution" and how it works, look below.

Iraq
Problem: Political powers have interests in invading the sovereign nation of Iraq to establish an american military power in the middle east. However, this action would be a clear violation of United Nations law and would be opposed by the public.

Actions: Terrorists who attack the twin tower are, within minutes, identified as agents of Islamic terror possibly connected to the leader of Iraq by C.I.A. information.

Solution: At invasion or Iraq goes on as planned with opposing voices muted by the cheers or victory. No matter how many proposed connections are proven false the state is still hailed as the god-head if liberty. Even with no weapons or mass destructions, nuclear capabilities, or mobile chemical weapon plants found the "war" is hailed as a success and given the greenlight to spread to Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan and Iran.