Your letters for Feb. 9, 2024

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Your letters for Feb. 9, 2024

All-hands-on-deck

I don’t know if you heard about another free item that Biden has proposed. If not, here’s a quick overview of his latest all-hands-on-deck!

President Biden announces new actions to strengthen America’s supply chains, lower costs for families, and secure key sectors — a White House release — called the “White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience!”

Thirty new actions for American families to strengthen “our” supply chain problems. It entails, of course, government money and expanding departments. Nowhere in the report does it mention the total cost to achieve these goals.

Government departments involved: newly established Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force; National Security Advisor; National Economic Advisor; Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, HHS, Homeland Security, HUD, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury; VA; AG; EPA; SBA; DNI; DOD; DOE; DOT; FLOW; USDA; Office of Management and Budget; Office of Science and Technology; chair of economic advisers; U.S. trade representative; Executive of ICE and the President. No mention of new hires?

Use of the Defense Production Act, DPA? No mention of approvals?

Funding from: $35M HHS, $275 M from DOE, $10M DOE accelerator, $5.6M DOE (clean energy-electric heat pumps), $3.5B DOE, BIL-(batteries), $196M USDA, $714M DOD-(NDIS), $8M DOL.

New offices: EERE, AMMTO, SCRC, DHS, BIL, DOT-Multimodal Freight Office, National Multimodal Freight Network, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, plus the monitoring from at least four established departments like WHNSC, OS&TP, CEA, EI NINO, USGS, NSTCCMS and supply chain mapping tool to analyze data for 110 weapons systems. Paid for by CHIPS and Science Act, the inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

How are these going to be shipped? It’s still going to need diesel trucks and rail cars! How can we export farm goods when AOC said, “We can’t feed our own population”?

Our partners in this are Mexico, Canada, Australia, EU, Japan, UK, WHO, USMCA, IPEF, NALS, PGI, MSP, ITSI — That’s right, no China nor India?

First summit to be held in 2024.

Ben Pecora

St. Joseph



Government

Do we want limited government or so much government that it becomes our religion basically?

Do we want free speech or hate speech? And who defines hate speech — government — or unelected government agencies? Do we want to decide how to heat our homes and what kinds of appliances we want to use, or do we want that dictated by our rulers in D.C.?

Do we want the Bill of Rights written into our Constitution as our God given rights, or do we want our masters to rule us and tell us what rights they will allow us to have?

Do we want our elected representatives to listen to and represent us (constitutional republic), or do we want mob rule (democracy), where the majority rules and the Constitution be dammed?

Remember, “When the people fear the government, we have tyranny. When the government fears the people, we have freedom.”

Are we going to have big government that will be our “mommy” or are we going to take more responsibility and rule ourselves with less government?

Our present Constitution states that we have the power to do the latter, but we need to elect people who will follow it and not make up dictatorial policies as they want or are paid to do.

The choice is ours. Do we want less government and more freedom or more government and less freedom? The choice is ours, we the people!

Bob Robison

St. Joseph



One person, one vote

A one-party state is not a democracy, especially when that one party is hell bent on consolidating their power to oppress their own constituents. It is the calling card of undemocratic regimes, and it creates chaos.

As I write this, it’s nearly the fourth week of the Missouri session and chaos is already ensuing in the Senate. A whole lot of that chaos is because of one group of extremist GOP Senators whom even the Republicans can’t contain: The Freedom Caucus.

The number one stated goal for the Missouri Freedom Caucus is “IP reform,” meaning they want to make it nearly impossible for Missourians to win when we place petitions on the ballot. They want to override our majority vote — they want to cheat. They do not have a care in the world for education (except to privatize it) or health care (except to strip it from Missouri women) or the myriad of other real concerns for our state. Their goal is to silence us permanently with IP reform.

Call your State Rep and your State Senator and tell them you believe in one person, one vote. No on “IP reform.”

Jess Piper

Hopkins, Missouri