Wilson not helping area
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To the editor:
According to recent survey results from Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson's 6th Congressional District is ranked 419 out of 435 congressional districts in the well-being index, in the bottom 20 percent of the country.
The index attempts to "measure what it is that people believe constitutes a good life, who is feeling good about life, and who is in need of a helping hand."
The Gallup Poll, in conjunction with the American Health Insurance Plans and Healthways, created what it calls "The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index" to rank factors that help measure well-being in America's rural and urban communities. The effort, "an on-going daily survey that began in January 2008," polls 1,000 Americans per day, 350 days per year, according to the survey's Web site.
The poll studies "not only the absence of infirmity and disease, but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being," pollsters say.
Now Wilson, D-St. Clairsville, will tell you our lives are better off with him in Washington fighting for us. But are they? And should Wilson be returned to Congress in 2010?
In terms of life evaluation, the 6th District ranks 431 of 435 districts. This index combines the evaluation of one's present life situation with one's anticipated life situation five years from now.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index asks Americans to evaluate their lives by imagining a "ladder" with steps numbered from 0 to 10, where "0" represents the worst possible life and "10" represents the best possible life.
Is Charlie Wilson is helping us in Washington? I think not.
Dennis Spisak
Struthers