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OUR VIEW
Vote for a candidate, not a single issue
In our majoritarian society, we tend to lavish all the spoils on the victor of any contest. This is probably a consequence of our capitalist system, which necessarily produces a winner and a loser in every transaction. But this view has now spread to our republican government, which depends on consensus for accomplishment. A party with 51 percent of the House seats receives complete control of House procedure, along with
the chairmanships of every committee.
The media has compounded this problem by stressing the competitive angle of every election story. Even their imagery focuses on the combative side of politics: "battleground states," "horse race," and "voter mobilization." This in turn perpetuates the dichotomous thinking that has enveloped policy and politics. One candidate is pro-life, the other is pro-choice; one
supports free trade, the other is a market protectionist; one supports the war, the other questions its continuation.
This presents a great danger for voters, and in particular young voters, who are too young to remember the days when parties worked together to further the goals of the American people. We have become so acclimated to the climate of competition that we can think of elections in no other terms. Candidates capitalize on this by presenting every choice as black vs. white, right vs. wrong. We are told that our position on just one social issue is justification enough for a vote.
Lost in this kind of thinking is the basic knowledge that public officials are not vote-casting automatons who are to work merely on one issue. While one social or fiscal issue may be of the utmost importance to your values, it is important to remember that your candidate of choice
will be casting a number of votes on a variety of issues. Supporting a candidate based on one issue means that you are, by default, endorsing that candidate's entire platform, even the parts with which you may disagree.
organic creatures who work on a wide range of policy matters, and it is important to know their positions before voting. Don't get caught up in the media's hypercompetitive atmosphere — pick the candidates who you genuinely believe will be the best leaders for our government.
This Election Day, take care to evaluate the full slate of a candidate's positions before casting a vote. Try not to inflate the importance of one issue to the exclusion of all other considerations. Public officials are
McKay Stangler for the edito rial board.
>> COMMENTARY
In competitive market, customers freely choose Wal-Mart's low prices
Freedom is a pretty-sounding concept that almost everyone supports abstractly. No politician would ever come out and actually say that he or she is opposed to increasing freedom or that freedom needs to be rolled back a bit. Here at the University of Kansas, students get red-faced at the mere thought of losing the freedom to check out library books without a government official searching through the records. The thought of losing any aspect of freedom can, if framed correctly, get our blood boiling.
Unfortunately, beyond the library doors, freedom becomes harder to define. Most students would probably agree that we should be able to shop where we want and work where we want. But if we want to shop or work at Wal-Mart, freedom goes out the window.
Wal-Mart, of course, is the most controversial retailer in America today. Wal-Mart has a higher revenue than most nations and, with 1.2 million employees, is America's largest private employer. Critics
Many critics believe that the government should do something about Wal-Mart's behavior by forcing Wal-Mart to increase its wages and offer better health benefits, or by kicking Wal-Mart out of communities altogether. In truth, however, these actions would hurt many of
BY VINCE MYERS
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
and Wal-Mart has many critics at the University — contend that Wal-Mart exploits its employees by paying them a low hourly wage, withholding health insurance, and purposefully keeping employees from working enough hours to qualify for full-time benefits. Some also contend that Wal-Mart drives out smaller competitors by offering consumers lower prices.
the people they're trying to help.
The key to the Wal-Mart situation is personal freedom. Americans buy at Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart is cheaper than most other retailers. This may cause other retailers to lose sales or go out of business, but this is because consumers are exercising their freedom to choose where they shop. Usually, consumers will shop where goods are cheaper. Cheaper goods, after all, have the same effect as a higher income because it allows consumers to buy more.
If the government forces Wal-Mart out of communities, it takes away citizens' freedom to spend money where they choose. Consumers will be forced to spend more money for the same amount of goods, which has the same result as a lower income. The only winners are Wal-Mart's competitors, who could raise their prices without losing business.
In the same vein, Wal-Mart employees work at Wal-Mart because they want to, either because it offers them better wages, better benefits, more flexible working hours, or a better environment than any of their other options. Wal-Mart critics seem to believe that taking Wal-Mart out of the picture will suddenly allow their 1.2 million employees to find better jobs. But if they could find better jobs, they
already would have. Removing Wal-Mart from a community does nothing to benefit Wal-Mart employees
— it just restricts their freedom to work where they choose, and it takes away their best option for income.
In recent weeks, Wal-Mart has made news with the expansion of its $4 prescription drug plan to Kansas stores. The plan lowers the cost of many prescription drugs to even less than the co-pays of most insured Americans. Nearly everyone will benefit from this plan, but no group will benefit as much as the uninsured (including Wal-Mart's employees); many of these drugs cost up to $50. Yet the same people who complain about the health care burden on uninsured Americans still want to eliminate Wal-Mart.
Lawrence is now fighting about whether or not to allow Wal-Mart to build another store. If Wal-Mart does open the store, it will offer low prices and jobs to another corner of Lawrence. If one Wal-Mart really is enough for Lawrence, as critics contend, then sales will lag and Wal-Mart will close the store on its own. Otherwise, free people who benefit from Wal-Mart's presence will keep the store in business.
Americans continue to work and shop at Wal-Mart because they freely choose to do so. Arrogant critics want to take away that choice. As passionately as we fight to keep our library records away from the government, we should fight for the freedom to shop and work where we please.
Myers is an Olathe junior in economics.
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No weight-loss motivation? No problem
Are you looking for a way to lose those unwanted fifty pounds? Do you have to buy two bus passes because you take up two seats? Well, don't worry, because there are plenty of ways you can lose that cheese-cake gut without any kind of special effort on your part. Forget diet and exercise, those things are just too hard, especially when elective surgery is so much more convenient.
Here are your options: First, there is liposuction, the classic surgical solution for fatness. It's very simple — you just have a man in scrubs with a piece of paper on his wall that says he is a doctor stick a vacuum in you over and over again to suck out all the fat. You have to pay him for this, mind you, and endure the excruciating pain of your body healing itself after being stabbed repeatedly. It's much easier than exercise, huh?
BY STEVE NICHOLS
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
Uh oh, so you got lipo-ed just to fill yourself back up again like a water balloon? Then try that up-and-comer that is slowly making a name for itself, gastric bypass surgery. The fact that you eat too much
is not because of a lack of willpower or self discipline, it's because your stomach is just too damn big. So why don't we just cut it in half and sew it back up? Brilliant! Stop the presses! Who says you have to stick to a balanced diet to lose weight when you could just chop your stomach in half?
What's that you say? Since your gastric bypass you don't eat any less you just poo a lot more? Well, this calls for drastic measures. The world's most ingenious doctors have put their heads together and come up with the next generation in anti-fatness technology: the stomach implant. How does it work? You really want to know? The stomach implant is a battery-sized device
that is inserted just below the rib cage. Wires from the implant are then connected to the stomach and deliver mild electric shocks. Doctor believe that these shocks trigger the release of a "satiety" chemical, tricking your body into thinking it is full. It's like electro-shock therapy for your stomach. Now you won't feel the need to consume large amounts of fat and calories, not to mention protein, vitamins or minerals. Hell, you probably won't want to eat anything ever again.
So, at the end of the day, when you look at yourself in the mirror of the gas station bathroom where you have been living because you spent all of your money and couldn't pay the rent, you can tell yourself as you look at your scar-covered, pale and wasted-away body, that at least you are no longer a fatty.
Nichols is an Overland Park senior in psychology and American studies.
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