WAND Board Member Susan Cundiff’s Op-Ed
"How much belt-tightening can a body take? Even the skinniest fashion models cannot strut their stuff in outfits that endanger their vital organs.
Last week’s House vote to reduce the obese federal deficit is welcome, but the focus on so-called “nonsecurity” spending is totally the wrong way to do it. That portion represents only 12 percent, a small fraction of the budget calories. Many agencies that support large sectors of the U.S. economy, including transportation, housing and agriculture, along with those that serve the most vulnerable people in this country, would have to lay off staff and dramatically cut back their work.
Meanwhile, Pentagon funding, which is already on steroids, remains almost untouched."
Susan's Op Ed originally appeared in the Eugene-Register Guard in Eugene, Oregon on February 24, 2011.
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