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I was interviewed on a morning talk show with WFOB Radio in Fostoria, Ohio. I was asked what I would do to help turn voter apathy around. (One of the hosts explained that during the last Election, their particular county had an anemic 31% voter turn out.) I said when we were in Pennsylvania campaigning a couple years back, I inteviewed a member of the Constitution Party who said he believes politics, at the very least, should be the “hobby of every American.” [He had explained he’d read where a former U.S. president — I forget which one — had said that.] If, indeed, politics was a “hobby” for most, you’d see much more participation — both at the voting booth, and in the political process in general… Note:<\/strong> At the station breaks, the hosts would take turns reading the forcasts for the day, and evening. It would go something like: “Forecast for today: Sunny and mild with temperatures in the mid 60s. Forecast for tonight: Cool and clear with lows in the upper 40s,” and so on… I asked if I could read the evening forecast at one of the breaks, and the hosts said sure. When it got to me, I said: “Forecast for tonight: (dramatic pause) Dark.” They laughed… I was also interviewed over the phone later this morning by a radio station in Marion, Ohio. I mentioned, as I do often, that in the Third World 24,000 people starve to death every day, according to U.N figures. And what’s more, I said many in the U.S. have become “food terrorists.” That is, studies show some 27% of our food is thrown away and we spend countless millions (maybe billions) overeating, or on non-nutritional junk food — (read: we’re hoarding, or wasting, food supplies and monetary resources: while little children starve. I explained, rather emphatically, that all this savings on wasted food, and such, would be much better spent on humanitarian aid agencies to many of these Third World countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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