As history is being made today, I sit wondering about the powerful message reverberating around the internet, "Hope and Change."
Well, my hope is that the change will be real, meaningful, and positive for the next four to eight years. In fact, if I were to come up with a hope and change wish list, a rubbing of the genie's bottle for three wishes, I would want:
1. America to come up with an answer to the environmental energy crisis, acting to ween people from the need for foreign oil and fossil fuels
2. America to become the global leader on health and wellness issues, including finding a cure for cancer.
3. America to become the global leader in education, preparing young people to confront the pressing issues facing us today and tomorrow.
What are your three wishes for the era of hope and change? (remember, one of your wishes cannot be more wishes.)
2 comments:
My three wishes can be summed up in just one word: Children.
If we truly look to our children and their future, so much would be solved, such as:
1. Energy crisis. If this is not solved, than it doesn't really matter what happens to anything else, in my opinion.
2. Genocide,children soldiers, child slaves, sex slaves, etc. Ok, that's a lot for one wish, so we'll just say Human Rights. This is overlooked everyday throughout the world. I wish that the US will take a stand and get other countries behind us to stop this. It boggles my mind how this still exists.
3. Ending religious wars. This one is a long shot, I know, but children are growing up in a culture of hate everywhere in the world. They see it on TV and they see it in their parents conversations. They see hate through religions that preach love. So then what does love become to them?
Just three huh, that's tough.
1) I'm going to have to agree with Paul and put the elimination of the sex and slave trade.
2) Education, this needs to be fixed but not by throwing more money at it. I have never, and probably will never, vote for a tax levy to help the public schools. It costs less, on average, to educate a student in a private school than it does in a public school. ($9,266 vs $6,779) As to which one provides a better education, I think the statistics speak for themselves.
3)Less government spending or restructuring of social programs that don't consistently see positive results.
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