April 20, 2008
Vote for a New Beginning
Dear fellow Americans:
I am a voice of an American. What is America I ask? What are our dreams? In the 1660’s many arrived on our shores fleeing from oppressions for person choices and hoping to start anew. In the 1770’s we dreamt of freedom and government representation, in the 1860’s we dreamed of freedom from slavery, in the 1960’s we dreamed of equality and rights. HOPE has been the connecting thread in all of these dreams.

Each century carries hopes and dreams. We are the Dream Carriers for this century. What dreams are we passing on to our followers? I am one who is convinced that each generation has to be better than the one previous or there is little hope for the survival of civilization. We cringe with horror at the horrendous collapse of civilization in other countries, but do we realize that the line between them and us is invisible. Lines, as we know, don’t really exist. Neither does the line between progressive economies and developing economies exist.

As we Americans start this new century, have we as a people reflected on our dreams. Summing up the first seven years, I tend to question where our freedom and representation, our freedom from slavery and our equality has vanished. Our government has taken to prying, if not dictating, into personal choices, being represented only if you have money, addictions (self slavery), and equality seems to mean that the credit banks have equal access to demanding the same high interest rates from the lowest and the destitute.

The Land is demanding change. We hear the call repeated daily from politicians. We sing “this land is yours,” but in reality we own little. If one owns the land, why does the State and cities claim to own it and have you pay taxes for it? Change is important, but change without hope and action is like a cancer patient changing clothes in the hope that the disease will go away. Change doesn’t make life better if we change the price of oil a few cents or the light bulbs. Change has to be really revolutionary. That is a complete turn around. The poor don’t need to be placated with more food stamps, and the homeless with free food; they need to have jobs that pay a livable wage so they can have a home and buy their own food. People need to see that their work is worth something.

The Opium Wars of old are not much different from the self medicating and drug addiction overcoming our country today. The causes are the same, one group of people trying to convince another that they should be happy with a degraded way of life while they rip off the profits of the land.

In order for our country to change we need to give hope and list the actions that will bring about these changes. The days of the rich minorities making millions of dollars off the working classes, has got to end. Every time the barrel of oil increases a few cents the under carriage of our economy is being eroded. This is true for the long haul trucker as to the pizza delivery person.

Lowering interest rates don’t help the working people. How can it? The credit card banks are freely extracting interest rates 32% and above for goods purchased at lower rates. Small businesses and working people try to survive with this type of credit. They can’t. They are being forced into new debits and bankruptcy.

Change will only come when there is a real effort from our government to curb oil prices and credit card interest rates. With these will come some hope of ordinary people being able to make a budget and survive? Without these, there is only despair of rising prices and little hope that life will be livable.

As we move through our new century, I feel that if we want “out with the old and in with the new,” our country must chose a president who has the experience of living and working with the surviving working class. We need a president who has experience in a State of extreme diverse populations –farmers and industrial workers, rural and urban and who worked equally well with all. We need a president, who can start anew in global politics; who has the innate ability to meet and treat other countries on an equal ground. One who doesn’t have monitory interests in other countries whether it is in invested interests in oil, mines, or other resources?

The only presidential candidate that I see that fits this category is Sen. Barack Obama. He will be the catalyst who will not have to depend on others to make his decisions, or worry about upsetting the oil cartel, or having foreign countries upset because of mining interests within their borders.

As an Alaskan, I urge you to look to the future as Seward did in the 1860s. He was told that he was naïve and ridiculed by fellow senators; however, he went forth and with the purchase of Alaska his vision has greatly endowed this great Nation of Ours. We are very concerned about our country’s future.

As a concerned American, my vote is for Obama in the hope that with change there will be hope and action to relief this country of the fears of not being able to survive to another pay day. Furthermore, our allied countries will feel safe if the American economy is sound and we are not “rollercoasting” on Wall Street.

I plead with my fellow Americans to wake from your slumbers and take the time off your busy schedule and vote in your primary or attend your state caucus to change this country for our future generations. Don’t allow the fear mongrels stop your dreams and hopes. Rise up and demand Action now…..VOTE for a New Beginning! VOTE OBAMA

Dr. Elizabeth V. Kane Ed.D., Alaska

 

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