Heightened Awareness

My letter to our local newspaper: 

Initially, I was curious why the front page of the Virginian-Pilot’s July 16th issue covered an AP report on a seemingly benign study charting America’s diminished height, so I read on.  Ultimately, I was dismayed by the brazen slant towards the social welfare state buried within. 

Obviously, the report argued, Americans are getting shorter while the rest of the world gets taller due to our lack of a nationalized health care service; to quote the Princeton professor cited in the article, “The European welfare states provide a more comprehensive social safety net including universal health care coverage;” or as the author of the article states, “The blame might lie with America’s expensive, inequitable health care system.”

I thought I smelled a rat early on, so I’m glad I read the whole article.  Here is another case in which liberal media covertly pushed some agenda, regardless of applicability or the fact that this present popular proposal for universal health care has no Constitutional basis whatsoever. 

Meanwhile, as the article showed Americans have been getting shorter since the end of World War II, it failed to cite the influx of cultures since that point in our nation’s history as a possible cause.  The average American height fell two inches over the last sixty years.  Perhaps shorter people are becoming Americans?