al franken
Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under general
last night becky and i went to an Al Franken fund raiser in st paul. i had never really been to one of those things before. first off, i’d like to say that i appreciate that it was affordable to the general public. at some of these kinds of things they’re looking for so much money that i couldn’t even get in. politics affect everyone and is for everyone. also, i appreciate that he took the time to meet everyone in the room. sure it was only for a minute or two but he did. and he made a connection with everyone. my uncle is in the house for the state of mn and not only did Al ask me to say hello he spoke with me for a few minutes about a conversation he had with my cousin and what a great guy he is. now i know that it’s the job of a politician to do this sort of thing but i tell you what. it works. it’s nice to see that someone cares about people enough to remember them.
the beginning of his speech was similar to things he said in his movie. then he moved on to the new material. i won’t pretend to remember all of what he said but i’ll include a few. he stressed healthcare. we’re ranked 37th in the world and spend something like 5% more of our GDP than the next highest country on healthcare, much of which goes to administration costs. crazy, i had no idea it was that bad. why don’t we have national healthcare. i’m sure it’s not perfect but you know, the rest of the world must know something. . . maybe it’s time to be a little less arrogant and take a clue from them.
another thing he mentioned that i liked was the idea to take the closed ford plant in st paul and turn it into a plant to build windmills. what a freakin great idea. we’re a windy state and could get much of our energy from wind. plus it would give us jobs AND push us out into the front end of things in terms of renewable energy. it’s time for our local government to realize that we have more than corn in minnesota.
by the end of his speech everyone was excited and you could see that most people were starting to tear up a little bit. it’s been so hard these last 7 years and it’s hard for us to hope that tomorrow might be a little better. we just might be able to reverse all the bad things that have been done in the last few years. with a little hope and a little luck and a lot of hard work, we can leave the country’s fear behind and grasp the better future that i’m beginning to believe in again.
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