8/09/2007

An essential catchphrase

“Prevention.”

Any presidential candidate who uses that catchphrase would get my attention.

With so many issues of the day, the old adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is, in my opinion, essential to a stronger citizenry, national safety and sane spending

At each end of the Mississippi River are prime examples of what that “ounce of prevention” could have meant.

In health care, imagine the reduction of both expenses and grief if problems were prevented or caught early rather than relegated to major medical status.

There’s a far-right tendency to poke fun at a formal education, and that’s just lunacy. The value of a well-rounded and liberal education for Americans is immeasurable, both in leadership abilities and quality of life.

Even the ever-present dilemma of abortion would be lessened by birth-control education. Abstinence as an alternative is whistling in the wind.

Remember that other old adage from Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanack:” “A penny saved is a penny earned”?

3 comments:

airth10 said...

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”

Isn't that the truth!

I am wondering who came up with that piece of wisdom. Probably a wise mother somewhere.

B.J. said...

Hi Airth10:

Old adages such as the two cited and "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" are attrbuted to Ben Franklin in his "Poor Richard's Almanack." Walter Isaacson's "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" is not to be missed! BJ

Anonymous said...

Jan says:Those who rent space in their heads, dwell in ignorance. The ignorant cannot know the value of a well rounded education. Nor can they run a country with even an ounce of competence. Even drunken sailors would not be as cruel to their fellow human beings as we see from the pitiful clueless bunch in Washington, DC.