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Published Brownsville Herald March 1, 2010

As time goes on the ridiculousness of the antics of what are supposed to be our representatives in the administration of our nation. These folks are supposed to be working in our best interests. Instead our Congressman cowers to the Congressperson from that bastion of “sensibility?” San Francisco. He votes for more spending that we don’t have money for, policies that enslave us even more and to take away what few choices we have left.
It is sad that I have to say that as I once had a high opinion of him and even contributed to his campaign. His staff, especially here in Brownsville, has always been more than courteous and helpful to the folks here, several of whom I have personal knowledge.
Most recently, I e-mailed the office to ask about firearms control and health care issues and did not even receive the perfunctory “I’ll get back to you” response. Then he voted for the government take over of health care. Further, the recent splash of veteran’s health care complaints, ‘poor care and lack of timely care for local vets in San Antonio center as well as inaction with regard of the VA determination that Navy veterans weren’t combat veterans during the Vietnam War. More »

Published Brownsville Herald Feb 15, 2010

Our leaders must be told that the economy must be the number one priority at every level of public administration. Our neighbors need to get back to work and the government must pay its debt.
In our area most work is substantially related to farm products, twin plant manufacturing, and small businesses.
An enormous number of jobs are in the transportation and logistics industry and nearly all of the others depend on it to survive.
To get products to market, to get those things we need for survival and to supply the businesses, we need trucking but that is only part of the system.
In South Texas to take advantage of our resources and overcome the long distances we must deal with we also must have a viable mix of transportation systems to reach more suppliers and customers.
That means a well planed rail facility as well as inexpensive bus service and air services for time sensitive needs.
We also have a plus that many others do not have and that is our nearness to the sea and Mexico. We are fortunate to have port facilities to take advantage of the sea resource but we need to do a lot better in coordinating the planning of our facilities with our neighbors. More »

Published The Brownsville Herald Feb 1, 2010

The election of 2010 is shaping up. The Democrats had a good majority in the Congress, the country in their hands, the Republicans blamed for the problems, and the potential of building a new version of Camelot. The folks really felt good about President Obama.
Then on Jan. 14, President Obama was in full battle mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform. He said “If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have.”
The administration’s view of what “We the people” wanted was forced on the country even though the “We the people” spoke up by starting the Tea Party Movement.
That lasted just three days! When the President campaigned in Boston on the 17’th for health care supporter Martha Coakley, not once did he mention the health care bill.
After Coakley’s defeat, Obama pretended that the real cause was a generalized anger and frustration “not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.” More »