Without exaggeration our nation and world is in a delicate balance and it should be obvious that we must change our paradigms in politics; leadership; civics; education; youth development; senior care; economic development; foreign policy; environmental safety; public health and nutrition; and respect for human equity.
In our nation we have looked to our president as the sole source of “change” for our social reconstruction from the stock market crash and eroding lifestyle and financial future. I maintain that the presidency is an institution and as such should exhibit in its paid cabinet and elsewhere an adequate showcase of professionals with people-skills, technological-savvy, industry, trade-talents and other specialized skills useful to effectively work with this administration to deliver urgently needed solutions.
Equally the American public must solve the dilemmas of our own modern democracy. We start by erasing primitive color-lines, zip-code limited political and educational progress. We continue with zero tolerance for anonymity with respect for every youth, senior, able-bodied and disabled adults.
We must be willing to love America in the way it should be. We operate best as a pluralistic society and model to the world taking care of a “national interest” precious to the world as an ideal.
I submit that our contribution to the world is not just a perceived availability of money, superior arms support and valiant soldiers but the passionate American capacity to reason; accentuate the active-positive example; work creatively, and fashion new technologies and concrete ways human beings can live and work with dignity and mutual respect.
New Rochelle is still the bedroom community for the U.N. and the world that governs and shapes financial cultures and political perspectives from here to the middle east. Let’s make certain that the New Rochelle High School Model Congress and the “lunchroom” with kids representing international diversity, global knowledge and work-readiness capacities does not outshine the rest of the “real world”.
