Posting From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pm | posted by Virginia SimmonsI didn’t get this up here yet. It’s an op-ed from Republican Rick Santorum and Democrat Harris Wofford published in last week’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
An excerpt below, the full piece here.
Among the many questions before us then, and especially before the next president, is do we push forward with these bold, lifesaving initiatives and seize the opportunity to deliver a truly historic blow against hunger, disease and poverty? Or will our next president shrink back and not follow through on commitments to those suffering from poverty and disease?
These are uncertain times. All of us are faced with skyrocketing energy prices, a limping economy, two wars and threats from abroad. Yet the fight against extreme poverty and disease is not a zero-sum game, nor does it reside in a foreign policy vacuum, isolated from our efforts to combat terrorism or deal with unstable regimes.
We may differ on key aspects of our military engagement overseas, but we do agree that American generosity through foreign assistance, and the alleviation of poverty in volatile countries and regions is a form of “soft power” that we cannot afford to under fund.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
As a lifelong Pennsylvanian, before retiring to Florida several years ago, I am very familiar with Senator Santorum and Harris Wofford. They are both good men, and One is fortunate to have them as representatives in Pennsylvania.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Well said. It’s so encouraging to see this kind of bipartisan resolve at work.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I would love to see ONE focus on areas of our country which seem to be under-represented in the ONE blog to give a much wider view of what is happening “on the ground” with ONE and ONE volunteers in their local areas - not just in the North East and in Nevada.
In fact, it would be nice to have a Blog Post like “ONE State of the Week” where EVERY state of the Union gets a chance in a rotation of 50 weeks to gather reports from ONE volunteers around their state and synthesizes ALL those reports in a blog post so that other ONE members can see what is actually happening with ONE around our country and where ACTIVE ONE VOLUNTEERS can get a “shout out” here in this blog. (appreciation for your active volunteers is always a good thing)
We must remember that ALL of our contributions to ONE are important and that could be better represented here in the ONE Blog.
ALWAYS ONE in the Spirit, debbie
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