I gave a talk tonight to a Political Science Class at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. \u00a0 Professor Tom Sutton said as Franklin Delanore Roosevelt asked the country to sacrifice during war time, \u00a0the professor said he \u00a0is personally thinking about sacrificing for the duration of the Iraq War. \u00a0 He said he was considering imposing a 50 cent a gallon of gasoline tax on himself. \u00a0 Professor Sutton said he’d then send the money to a fund to help soldiers coming back with, say, PTSD symptomology, or other problems. \u00a0 I have so often heard on the campaign trail how it almost feels, to many Americans, \u00a0like we’re really not at war as we go on with our day to day tasks with hardly a thought to Iraq. \u00a0 Making a personal choice to sacrifice for the war effort on a regular basis, I believe, would be a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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