80% of all U.S. families did not read and did not buy a book last year.

80% of all U.S. families did not read and did not buy a book last year, a staggering statistics.

75% of readers prefer to read a book on paper rather than electronically.

The statistic for people who have not read a book since graduating from school is so depressing that I won't quote the number.

If you don't read a book or learn to read a legislative bill, you will listen to any opinion said by the media. You will believe the excerpt taken to be true and will add it to your belief system.

When I listen to a statement, asked to sign a petition based on the short section that was reported or asked to make a statement of such, I must go to the source and read the complete document before I can make my remarks.

Many times I've read a petition that has arrived via e-mail, read the horror and immediately sign the petition. My bad.

I appreciate how MoveOn.org sends me an e-mail, a petition that a member of the eight million members civic action group has written and asks for my opinion, if they should support it.

I start my research, looking for the original document or original statement that the petition was based on. I take my findings and report back to the organization my opinion of the petition. Some are spot on. Some are created after the fact, where a vote and decision have already taken place. This type of petition is the most frustrating of all. I raise the red flag and yell "stop the press!", vote has already been taken. There is nothing more embarrassing than receiving an e-mail or a text message asking me I know how to read, if I keep up with current events or am asked what I've been smoking. I feel like the person who Jesus called the worse possible name he called an individual person, a fool.

If I do not read, I will believe anything the media says, which means I am a fool. What I am hearing is what makes a good story, a reason to tune in a certain channel at a defined time. I'm told not to miss it. If I don't go read and research the remark, I will miss it.

Now is the time of opportunity. An opportunity for a volunteer fundraiser to sell you a book that will not only profit you, it makes a profit for the person who has volunteered his time because of his compassion for his cause.

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