Iola will begin to grow. Builders will rush in to create new subdivisions. Wages will increase steadily at our flourishing industries and businesses. All of our children will be above average.
That’s not all.
The Kansas Legislature will reform its tax code to produce tons more money so that public school funding can be restored to pre-recession levels and increased from there to assure excellence in our classrooms as the nation’s best teachers flock to Kansas.
Tomorrow, or maybe today, will see an end to negative political advertising. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will meet for lunch every Wednesday just to chat about their wives and kids and how lucky they are. Democrats and Republicans will issue statements explaining precisely, in sixth-grade vocabularies, what they will do if elected.
All of industry in every country will cut their production of greenhouse gases by half and agree to do better next year. Daytime highs in Iola will drop to 85 in July and August and hover around 50 in February.
Syrians and Afghanis will stop killing each other.
All of these impossible dreams will come true because the world learned late Monday afternoon and early evening that anything can happen in this year of Our Lord, 2012. That revelation was given to us by Andy Murray when he defeated Novak Djokovic in a five-hour, five-set tennis match to win the U.S. Open and become the first Brit to win a grand slam tournament in 76 years.
Thank you, Andy. Thank you very much.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
