Shake them up
Julius Cohen
Friday, November 3, 2006
AS ELECTION DAY approaches, I note in Jerry Moran’s slick rhetoric not a word on where he stands on a single issue. Nor do I see anything of what he has contributed as solutions to the problems of the day. As a consequence, he comes across as a shiny pot, pitted with holes, that contains not a drop of substance. That Kansas voters buy this kind of evasion has me shaking my head in disbelief.
As for Bush’s “No child left behind” empty and rhetorical slogan on which he ran but left unfunded by some $40 billion dollars, I offer the following quote from Dr. Julian Whitaker’s newsletter, Health and Healing (September 2006, V16 N 9):
“Worldwide, we rank a lowly 36th in infant mortality. One in three American kids is overweight, and type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and blood lipid abnormalities, once seen almost exclusively in adults, are affecting millions of children. Academically, we’re frighteningly low and sinking fast. Two-thirds of our fourth graders can’t read at grade level, our students score third from the bottom among developed countries in math and science, and a quarter of our teenagers fail to graduate from high school.”
Millions in disgust will stay home on election day as a way of expressing their dismay with American politics. Please don’t. What happens in November will lay the groundwork for a heated, issue-laden debate in year 2008. We have now an opportunity to shake up the complacency of those in office as to what we will not tolerate at the expense of our nation and of the American people as a whole.
Julius Cohen
Emporia