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A couple weeks back, I gave a talk at the Christopher Program, an Alternative High School in downtown Columbus, Ohio. \u00a0 The class I talked in was doing some tremendously creative “Service Learning” projects. \u00a0 One student was doing an education program about “Environmental Awareness in the Work Place.” \u00a0 Another student was working with a local social service agency to help further awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault. \u00a0 Yet another student was doing a form of street theatre to raise awareness about safe driving habits… \u00a0 As a spin-off, I said I’d interviewed a man who owns a Driving School in Loudonville, Ohio. \u00a0 he \u00a0 told me there are 33,000 traffic fatalities every year in America, one death every 13 minutes. \u00a0 That’s almost five deaths every hour, or 120 traffic deaths a day. \u00a0 The man said that would be the equivalent of a half-full airliner going down every day<\/em> \u00a0 in this country! \u00a0 America has lost a little more than 4,000 Service people in Iraq over five years. \u00a0 We’ve lost some 165,000 motorists during that same time. \u00a0 Our roads have become “war zones,” it’s just that we don’t look at it that way, I said. \u00a0 Among \u00a0a number of \u00a0things, \u00a0I said our administration would push to have highway speed limits go back to 40 mph, like \u00a0they were \u00a0in 1941. \u00a0 This would significanlty save on gas, cut down, just as significantly, on \u00a0carbon dioxide gas emissions, \u00a0and make the highways tremendously safer. \u00a0 Several students indicated I might not get a lot of votes with that stance… \u00a0 \u00a0Note:<\/strong> Several days later, \u00a0I got an e-mail from Jonathan Renard, one of the Christopher Program students. \u00a0 He wrote: \u00a0 “I especially found it interesting when you said: ‘Do you want to vote for a president that says what you want to hear, or do you want to vote for a president that challenges your thoughts?’ I have been thinking about that all weekend,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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