Today is my son’s birthday: HRC 26/100
23 August, 2016 | Index
Dear Hillary Clinton,
Gerard Mclean here, from Englewood, Ohio, just north of Dayton. There were 100 days from your nomination to election, so I’m writing you 100 letters. This is the twenty-sixth letter. The others can be found in your USPS mailbox or online at 100HRC.com
Today is my son’s birthday. He is now thirty-one. It seems like only yesterday we were walking along the Mississippi River walkway together, telling each other stories we each made up about river boats, pirates and river sharks. He had an active and brilliant imagination back then when he was only two years old, which served him well in his pursuit of a BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Today, he is one of the sharpest and intuitive minds I will ever have the humble honor of knowing, despite his relative young age. He is also kind, hard-working and creative.
This letter is really dedicated to him. I worry a lot about his future in light of the job market, the diminishing value our hyper-capitalist culture places on artists and the availability of health insurance within creative industries. I fear that he will settle for a job that pays him well instead of a life that feeds his soul.
MedicareForAll, UniversalCare, SinglePayer could ease the stress young artists feel about making a living while pursuing their craft. It would enrich this country greatly as well, ensuring we grow the arts as much as we value a GNP growth.
Money isn’t everything, unless you don’t have reliable health care. Then, it is everything.
Regards,
Gerard McLean
cc: Sen. Sherrod Brown
