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I was shelling corn the other night when I looked down at my monitor—322 bushels per acre it read. My jaw just about hit the floor. But they say not to count your chickens before they hatch. They should also tell you not to count your bushels before you get to the elevator.
I’ve heard a lot of bad ideas over the years. But one of them, this notion that we should “defund the police,” really takes the cake.
There’s no substitute for the brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to keep our communities safe. When you call 911, and I pray that day never comes for you, you expect an armed police officer to respond, not a social worker. But that’s exactly what some of the out-of-touch liberals want to happen.
The United States Postal Service is one of the only agencies authorized by the Constitution. In fact, the agency can trace its roots back even further to 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was named the first Postmaster General.
For some 247 years, the men and women of the United States Postal Service have been delivering the mail—rain or shine. It doesn't matter where you live—downtown Kansas City, the suburbs, or rural North Missouri—they deliver the mail six days a week. That's the promise.
The price of gas is going up—again.
In case you haven’t heard the news or seen the prices climb at your local gas station yet, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) just announced they’re cutting back oil production by 2 million barrels a day. In other words, President Biden’s attempt to beg Iran, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil backfired, big time. And now, American families are going to have to pay the price.
The 2019 Flood was among the worst we’ve ever seen in North Missouri. It didn’t hit as many folks as the 2011 Missouri River Flood or the ‘93 Flood, but unlike many of the floods we’ve seen in the past, the 2019 Flood stuck around for what seemed like an eternity. It took the better part of a year for the floodwaters to fall in some places. That put everyone way behind schedule on rebuilding and recovering.
At the end of this month, two programs you’ve probably never heard of will expire: the Medicare Dependent Hospital Program and the Medicare Low-Volume Price Adjustment. Despite these programs flying under the radar, both have a tremendous impact on our hospitals, our communities, and our lives.
President Biden wants to double the size of the Internal Revenue Service and hire 87,000 new IRS agents to audit and investigate American workers and small businesses—and liberals in Congress gave him the power to do it.
WOTUS. It stands for “waters of the United States.” The acronym is five letters, but if you live and farm in North Missouri, it might as well be a four-letter word. No matter how many times we try to bury that horrible policy, it seems to keep rising from the ashes to infect nearly every acre of Missouri farmland with more onerous regulations.
After months of haggling with his political advisors, President Biden finally pulled the trigger on his disastrous plan to “forgive” student loan debt.
The President issued an executive order to unilaterally strike $10,000 from every student loan that has been borrowed by someone making up to $125,000 or couples making up to $250,000. Let’s be clear—this isn’t actually forgiving any debt. It’s transferring responsibility for a debt to someone who didn’t agree to it, to the tune of at least $300 billion.