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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Letter: Start building foundation again

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Our country has always held great promise, a promise created by generations of great leaders who put the interests of their children and their grandchildren’s children ahead of their own.

That promise was made manifest by leaders like Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, an icon of the Republican Party and original small-government Constitutional Constructionist, looked to the best interests of his great-grandchildren when he made the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson increased the national debt by 15 percent at a time when the United States was struggling to pay off its war debts but doubled the size of our nation.

In subsequent years our federal government enacted laws that created the world’s first transcontinental railroad, providing inland farmers access to coastal and international markets. It built dams like the Grand Coulee and created the interstate freeway system, infrastructure that help agriculture and industry flourish. These and other American achievements all had something in common: They were big government programs created so generations of grandchildren might prosper.

Then small government extremists came to power, and now we cannot even build a bridge across a river. Determined to avoid every tax dollar, they have turned away from traditions that made America a great nation and robbed our children of the bright future our forefathers fought so hard to provide.

It is time we got back to our American tradition of building a bright future for our grandchildren.

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