What I Want for My Birthday

My thanks to Ann McFeatters for saying what we want.

We [at least Americans like me] want competence. We want adults in charge. We want an end to partisan bickering. We want the billions we entrust to our government to be handled wisely. We want our nation’s credibility abroad restored. We want an end to our soldiers’ returning to Iraq and Afghanistan for two, three and four rotations. We want our bridges and water mains to stop collapsing. We want our children to get educations that qualify them to take their places in the world. We want every man, woman and child who needs health care to get it without having to go into bankruptcy.

Published by Norm Benson

My name is Norm Benson and my Lowdermilk manuscript is out for beta review. This is the story of Walter and Inez Lowdermilk, an American couple who came to see soil erosion as a threat to civilization. Their pursuit of land conservation carried them from China and the Dust Bowl to Palestine, where their ideas about reclaiming the land helped build the case for the creation of Israel.

One thought on “What I Want for My Birthday

  1. Competence is a good start. I also want to see an end to such a long list of things, like parliamentary self-interest, that there isn’t time in this day to tell you about them.

    Thanks for flagging up some of the things that need attention, Timber.

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