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According to Congressman Joe Baca, "The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure." I agree and also think a small town post office can often serve as the backbone of a community.
It's a phrase most Americans are familiar with. Inscribed outside the James A. Farley Post Office Building in New York City, one can read, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of theirappointed rounds."
It seems now we have to ask, what about lack of money?
Missouri farmers are working tirelessly through this hot drought just hoping to have a harvest this fall. But no matter the weather each year, the job of planting and of harvesting always takes a lot of time and effort. That's why we need to keep Washington from passing rules that make it more difficult.
Plato once said, "People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die." It's much the same with government. When it comes to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the health care law, its negative impact on jobs and the economy is becoming clear.
I have always believed that a government should do a few things and do them well. However in the last few years, it seems we are far exceeding our quota. The federal government has been deeply involved in the auto business and with several banks. Now with the recent Supreme Court ruling, we can add health care to that list.
Influential Federal Judge Learned Hand once wrote, "Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." But when Hand wrote this in 1934, he surely never imagined Americans being taxed for simply existing.
On July 3rd, 1776 Massachusetts delegate John Adams sat down to write his wife, Abigail, an exuberant letter. The day before, delegates voted to break free from British rule and would soon sign the formal Declaration of Independence.
Harry Truman said it's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Once again, I have signed onto legislation authored by Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat. I'm not interested in who gets credit for helping stop illegal immigration, I just want it stopped.
When you are building a house, you have to do things in a certain order. You could not, for instance, put the roof on before you have the walls up. In the same way, no plan for immigration reform will work until we control the border.
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution stating: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."