Dear candidates, you who aspire to become the next President of the United States of America, do you not agree that your voters have the right to get a feel for how you would answer some different and not beaten around questions of our time, so that they can get to know you better? - Even though some of these questions might not have an answer, much less a totally correct one, we hope you will at least try to advance the beginning of a comment. - Would you be so kind?
The graying of the nation diminishes the representation of those who have to live the longest with the consequences of today’s political decisions. To combat a baby-boomer’s dictatorship would you favor a one child one vote reform where the mother, father or older sibling would be authorized to exercise that vote, as a way to further a more complete democracy?
From the Global Financial Stability Report by the International Monetary Fund, April 2007, page 15
My mother is from Sweden and my father was from Poland, and I was born in 1950, in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, close to the Colombian border.
In a world where everything is radicalizing and so many believe that if you are not 100% for, you have to be 100% against, I need to make a very personal comment about the United States. My father, as a Polish soldier taken prisoner of war by the Germans, spent five years in concentration camps, from the last of which he was liberated by American soldiers. I was brought up on a pro-American diet and for many years counted To Hell and Back, the 1955 movie that recounted the life of Audie Murphy, America’s most-decorated soldier in the Second World War, among my favorites. There is no way on earth that I could suffer from any sort of real anti–United States of America phobia. If I criticize, make recommendations, or observe some things that I believe could be improved in the United States, I always do so as a sincere friend who truly wishes for that much-admired country to live up to those very high standards of which I feel it is capable. And when it doesn’t, I am just a much-saddened friend, but never a foe. The United States should not ignore the fact that out there it has many true friends who truly wish it well. It should never confuse them with all those who are plain bootlickers.
Also, if the ongoing globalization is to stand a chance to end in something good for the world, this will also very much depend on the willingness and the ability of the USA to do the right things right.Let us not also forget that we all are also indigenous to this small planet earth, this last as you are all too.
1. From Voice and Noise, Booksurge, 2006
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