Comments on: The Constitution is center stage for midterm elections http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2010/10/the-constitution-is-center-stage-for-midterm-elections/ Smart Conversation about the Constitution Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Waring http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2010/10/the-constitution-is-center-stage-for-midterm-elections/#comment-666 John Waring Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:57:49 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/ncc/?p=1168#comment-666 Mr. Frank,
I am responding to your article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer where you conclude with questions asking if our elected leaders will settle their differences for the betterment of the country and, if not, whether we can still elect leaders who will do so. Unfortunately the answers are no and no until the country reaches a severe crisis point. Our elected leaders are only concerned about retaining their positions and delving into the $200M per month Bill Moyer says is being spent on them by lobbyists. A politicians’ time horizon is the next election and his motivation is how current legislation will impact his future electability. Neither party will address the loss of American manufacturing in the “one world” economy as the primary reason for our economic woes: escalating debt at all levels and job loss. Our present economy, based upon services, housing and financing, merely swirls our diminishing wealth among these sectors while our increasing debt is slowly killing us. Nobody notices. Americans are so used to living beyond our means that any politician suggesting fiscally responsible measures be taken now would be unelectable. It is a tragic legacy we are preparing for our children and theirs.
John Waring

]]> By: Leonard A. Lucenti http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2010/10/the-constitution-is-center-stage-for-midterm-elections/#comment-665 Leonard A. Lucenti Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:01:11 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/ncc/?p=1168#comment-665 I read your article as published in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, and differ with the following statement….
“The big challenge 200 years ago was to make a fractious people into a united nation…..but we disagree about today’s issues with the same passionate intensity.

Two hundred years in the history of man on earth is a very short time frame. In the course of human experience on earth, it rates as a speck of dust in a field.

However, these two hundred years are the most dynamic and destructive of all, thus rendering us complex and divergent.

Our founding fathers may have differed as much as we do today, but their convictions often resulting in physical attacks on themselves, as evidenced by Alexander Hamilton’s gun dual that caused him incomparable pain prior to his death.

That a few elite leaders going back two hundred years ago, would fight to the death on issues they supported stands in sharp contrast to today’s egomaniacs that have permeated the air waves and would never become as visible as those men were.

We stand at a point in time where important decisions must be made to save ourselves, our planet , and future generations. Nobody I see today is willing to stick his neck out far enough as the founding fathers did.

We need to get moving, with vigor, on a course that heals earth so that billions of people can enjoy the benefits of a healthy planet, and can find personal gain and viable employment in so doing.

This our elected leaders must stand in cooperation and promote…before it’s too late.

Leonard A. Lucenti

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