February Letter to the Editor

Winter, 2010 Editorial
Author: Bill Chisholm

February 1, 2010 Bill Chisholm 19073E Hwy 30 Buhl, Idaho 83316 543-4418 chisholm3@mindspring.com Editor, Time is short and the stakes are high. If we are to save the republic, leave a planet worth living on to our children, then we need some clarity. We need to have some set definitions, not the vagaries we have been operating under. Like are forefathers, we need to acknowledge some self-evident truths: A corporation is not a person. Greed is not a virtue. Trickle down economics was really sucked up economics. Corporate bailouts don’t stimulate the economy, they reward greed and incompetence. Inalienable rights come with undeniable responsibilities. CAFOs (livestock concentration camps) are not agri-culture, they are industrial ag. There is a difference between a Republican and a Republiban. The first come from a proud tradition of those that stood with the people and against greedy corporations, think Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. The Republiban is much like its Afghanistan counterpart, the Taliban, a bunch of religious zealots, more interested in power than the wellbeing of their people and their country. Nuclear energy is not clean and green. Recreational killing is neither sport nor manly, nor the honorable feeding of one’s family. There will be no viable health care system if we don’t start taking care of our health. Foggy notions make navigating the unchartered water we now sail risky business. It is time to clear away the intentional fog of confusion and chart a course based on clear ideas and ideals. Nothing less will get us through the daze. Bill Chisholm

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