"I RUN FOR OFFICE"

A Message that "Haunts"

Over the course of my writing this blog, I've been haunted by something I read when I was nineteen and a student at Lincoln University in Missouri.  I will be seventy-three tomorrow, and the article, published in 1947 in Harper's Magazine, also appeared in my textbook, Thought and Statement,

Leary. Smith; Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1951.

After watching Charlie Rose's interview last night with Treasury Secretary Geithtner; I pulled the old text from my library and read again "I Run For Office" by Senator Richard Neuberger of Oregon.  He could easily have been describing the plight of some of our politicians in 2012.

Those who truly want a safe and prosperous future for all of our citizens must be extremely frustrated by what Geithner told Charlie last night.  The interview aired on PBS on July 23rd, and will re-run today.  Almost no one in the media is telling us what Geithner told Charlie; facts we all need to know and understand.  Compared with Neuberger in 1947, in his smaller Oregon political district, today's politicians must seek votes from their own district AND make those voters understand their links to  economies of the Eurozone and Developing Nations.  Those fates are inextricable from our own; and our voters are extremely asymmetrical to the scope of the real problems we all face.

Aside from the voters in the coming election, every member of Congress, especially those in the House of Representatives, where, by our Constitution, all money bills must originate, must now choose between their re-election and the future of our country.  Any shorter-sighted view held by any of the 535 members can doom this country.  The clock is ticking and the "Fiscal Cliff" is eerily parallel to the booby-trapped apartment of the Dark Knight Shooter.

Those of us who bear the scars of serving this country in uniform, and the spirits of those who died serving this country hold you accountable.  Check your Bible; Matthew 16:26; Mark 3:36; Luke 9:25.

Stay Vigilant!

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