The summer rolls on

Accorging to the AP, "America's children are less likely to commit a violent crime or become a victim of one, but more of them are living in poverty, according to the government's broadest measure of children's well-being."  Now there's a good news, bad news kind'a thing.
 
I've been on vacation for the last two weeks (thus my silence here on the Patlak blog) deep in the woods of Pennsylvania in a cabin with no phone and no computer and no television.  While I've been reading books -- including The Pentagon's New Map and  Power, Terror, Peace, and War -- Dave has been out meeting the people of the 18th District and has been gearing up to do the work as the elected voice of the people.  Dave's key issues speak directly the points raised in the AP article.  We cannot have a society where our children live, and die, in poverty.  The American Dream must be more than a dream, it must be a reality, a truth, for all people -- and particularly our children.
 
We need Representatives who understand we, as a society, must do something to alleviate the ills which negatively impact our children.  Dave Patlak is such an individual.