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Page 6 THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Thursday, February 28, 2013 Comments & Notes from... Mary Kuyper P.O. Box 208 Reeds Spring MO 65737 • 417-272-3527 Greetings Readerville: This fine spring day, I can almost hear the peepers waking up. OK – next day woke to snow on the ground. Spring had been stolen. We had gone from the 60’s to 28 degrees. I guess that is ok because we do not want things blooming out for several months yet. We are however, very thankful for moisture of any kind. especially rain. since we can’t predict the weather and the weather-man can’t either – we will move on. Birthday Now we have a hearty wish for a whole lot of you folks. Travis Isaacs (my nephew-in-law), my grandson –in-law Wade Carey, sisters-in-law Linda Quick and Barbara Youngblood and Donna Sparks (need bread lady), my mean ole daughter-in-law Sherrie Kuyper, a little fellow named Riley Isaacs (nana’s pal) and a special young lady who happens to be nana’s granddaughter Kamilla Miller. Now if that is not a bunch of rascals to report on – good or bad. Hope you all had a great day and many more to come. May God be with you all. If I don’t have your name – sorry – let me know. Sick Bay Lori Trueblood is still taking her chemo. Rosemary and Bill Youngblood are in need of prayer. My sister, Edna Ruth Kessinger took a terrible fall while caring for me. She has been in extreme pain. Please keep her in prayer and deed. Bert told me that her fellow helper (coach really) of the youth bowling league needs our prayers as well. He has many serious decisions to make regarding his health. There are many around us who are sick, in need of a kind word, a helping hand, etc. etc. Help where you can, we can all pray, but someone once said, we need to put legs on our prayers. Lets do something! I was wrong Today we wait to find out if Boy Scouts will be Boy Scouts or Girl-Boy Scouts. Which they have never been. But, one or the other, thanks to the president, same sex marriage, abortion, lewd pictures not needed to be shown, foul language on radio and TV, in homes, on the streets – just one little example of the many ways we have let morals slip out of our fingers and everything else folks are allowing to occur. The earth seems angry with us – perhaps it is one way God is speaking to us and we are not listening. Earthquakes, fires, floods, volcanoes, severe droughts, what more do we need? And, gun control being an Reeds Spring Jct. issue- isn’t that what Hitler did, did we not learn anything from the past. Does history have to repeat itself because of our stupidity? Anger can run deep & we have lost control of any decent response to it. All this takes me back to a time when Madeline O’Hare had prayer taken out of the schools. I heard that she was to speak at the Shrine Mosque in Springfield, I felt that since I had written so many derogatory things about her that I owed it to my readers to go and hear her speak. I expected to see a well dressed lady speaking sixteen syllable words. What I got instead was the use of four letter words coming from a frumpy foul mouthed woman. She shouted, ripped pages from the Bible and when she finished her charade, she asked if anyone had anything to say. The audience was quiet, then she called us yellowbellied cowards, before I thought I was on my feet, holding little Mary Jr. by the hand and walking towards the stage. Halfway down my knees turned to putty, and I thought to myself, “What am I doing, this lady has argued and won her case before the US Supreme Court. But, it was to late to turn back. There were only 3 people that went down. When I got before her, I addressed her as Dr. O’Hare and said we would like to know why you fight so hard against God since you say He does not exist. It would be like us people who live at Table Rock Lake trying to rid the lake of whales, since there are none what is the point? At which time she said in a very ugly voice “I’ll tell you why, you Christians have come out of your closets and are invading everything.” And my reply was, “I’ll tell you something – you and your hand full of followers will not dictate to America where we can pray or anything else we want to do.” The audience exploded and she never got to say anything else. Then I realized something, had I known I would be speaking to her, I would have stayed up all night, looking up eloquent things to say, but God used a simple Reeds Spring graduate and a whale to make a point. People who had been there told me later that they thought God had His say without the help of anyone. That was a long time ago, but all these years I’ve fought for what I believed, which was America would stand tall, that she would not follow whims, or tilt to every wind that blew. But, today as I look around and am reminded of Bible teaching of how evil would become worse and worse and we can see & know the truth and still yield. That what was once called good would now be called evil. (It tells us that this would occur in the Bible – read it folks). Those years ago, I said not in America would all these things happen. “I WAS WRONG!” We can still change things, but the window of time may not be long. We should join together with the Rutherford Ins, Rev. Bill Grahams, and others to make our voice heard. As my mom use to say, with your little bit and my little bit we can become a mighty bit. Yes, 30 years ago when I made that statement to Miss O’Hare, “Not in America!” I did not believe the government would lose sight of this – “Government by the people and for the people” with a conscious thought about the people and that is why I said I was wrong. I am going to let this be my closing, hoping some of my concerns for our Holy God, our country, our children, our grandchildren, and other family members, our friends, and our churches will touch you heart strings and we will stand together again and that is my “Food For Thought.” Till Next Time: Matata! Ha Kuna 4 Calvary Southern Gospel Quartet 4 Calvary Southern Gospel Quartet will be performing at Keystone Assembly of God, Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 10:45 a.m. The Church is located at 2731 East State Highway 248 Reeds Spring, MO. Stone County Publishing 417-723-5248 Fax 417-723-8490 New Arrival First time Grandparents Kevin and Sarah Wray from Crane and first time Aunt Molly Wray announce the birth of their granddaughter (and niece)……Riley Kay. Born February 10 th , 2013. Parents are Adam and Jacque Wray of Tacoma Washington where Adam serves in the U.S. Air Force at McChord AFB. Maternal Grandparents are Tony and Tammy Taylor of Republic. Great Grandma Louise Short of Springfield. Welcome to our world Riley Kay. Jones Celebrating 65th Anniverary Archie Jones and Peggy (Short) Jones will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary on March 6, 2013. Friends and relatives are invited to attend a celebration hosted by their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren in honor of this milestone on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at the Community Center, 104 E. Edgewood, Crane, MO, from 2 PM – 5 PM. Archie and Peggy were married on March 6, 1948 by Reverend Gilbert Clevenger in Galena, MO. 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A Message From Represenative Don Phillips Old Man Winter was predicted to drop snow and ice on a good portion of our state so the House leadership cancelled the regular session for Thursday and the technical session for Friday and sent us home early. It proved to be a good decision. (The “technical session” is a session requiring attendance only if legislators have obligations such as committee meetings, hearings, etc). Hall of Famous Missourians I submitted the name of Rose O’Neill to the Speaker of the House for his consideration for inducting her into the Hall of Famous Missourians. I personally remember her mostly for her Kewpie Dolls, however, that’s only a fraction of what this remarkable woman accomplished! She would be a great choice for The Hall and would leave a positive legacy for the Speaker as this selection is a privilege of his office. Senator Blunt Visits the Capitol U.S. Senator Roy Blunt spoke to the members of the House of Representatives during session on Thursday morning. He also visited privately with the Republican caucus and gave us some insight into what’s going on at the federal level. Legislation HB 462: This is my sex offender registry bill and I’ll be presenting it before the Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee at a public hearing on Monday at one o’clock; it should be interesting. HB 87: Sponsored by Rep. Eric Burlison, Springfield, reestablishes the benevolent tax credits and has an emergency clause. It passed the House overwhelmingly and is now in the Senate. I expect this important bill to be on the fast track and get to the Governor’s desk quicker than most! HB 545: I reported on this bill last week. I have received hundreds of emails and dozens of phone calls from constituents on this gun bill. I’ll make this very clear it WILL NOT pass! I hope to see it come to the House floor and be brought up for discussion. I think that’s a good possibility. Then after a public execution of the bill and a verbal flogging of the bill’s sponsor, vote on it and send him, his party, and all of Missouri a loud message about our commitment to protecting our law-abiding citizens gun rights! HJR 23: Is a House Joint Resolution for a one-cent sales tax for transportation. This bill was heard in the Transportation Committee on Tuesday. The tax would apply to everything except medicine and food. It would require a vote of the people if HJR 23 passes. Nobody likes additional taxes but good highways are a key to economic development in our state. There aren’t too many other options for funding out there. The AAA conducted a survey and two-thirds of their members nationwide preferred a sales tax over any other method of funding for transportation. If the language in HJR 23 reaches the ballot, the voters will make the decision as to whether or not to approve this tax. HB 388: Sponsored by Kathy Swan is an education bill that if passed would require schools to be assigned a letter grade as to their performance. To me, the letter grade seems unnecessary. There’s already a percentage applied based on performance. I believe the school administrators in District 138 agree the percentage placed on performance is better than a letter grade. Note: Any of these bills can be reviewed by going to the House website and choosing “bill tracking.” Medicaid Expansion This is a much visited topic of discussion. I don’t believe Medicaid expansion is going to happen in Missouri anytime soon (as Medicaid is currently structured) and here’s why: Medicaid expansion is a product of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka; Obama Care. Missourians soundly voted in opposition of the national health care plan. And, the Supreme Court ruled that states may opt out of the Medicaid expansion aspect of Obama Care without suffering loss of federal funding for Medicaid services that’s already in place. Medicaid has not proven to be an especially effective way to provide quality healthcare although it does provide healthcare to those that absolutely can’t afford it. It’s certainly not cost effective for our state and with our federal deficit growing out of control, why should we add to our woes by taking billions of additional dollars in federal Medicaid money? Just because, under the new proposal, it doesn’t cost our state anything to get started with expansion, that doesn’t mean its free money. We are paying for it one way or the other and ultimately Missourians may get stuck with quite a funding challenge as the percentage of federal monies decrease. There are just way too many uncertainties concerning Medicaid expansion to expand it as it currently operates. And, once those expansions are made, there’s no turning back by taking it away, as it has been suggested by supporters of the expansion. Another requirement of Obama Care is the establishment of health insurance exchanges (HIX). The HIX is scheduled to open on Oct. 1, 2013. It will be an online marketplace for those above the poverty level to shop for insurance from private insurance companies. One of the primary factors of the HIX is income! There will be a number of options available and to get the best coverage you will have to pony up for the most costly premium, probably at a much higher rate for the same coverage you may currently have. Lower cost premiums will come with much higher deductibles. Supposedly you can keep your current coverage however that remains to be seen. Lower income participants that make too much to qualify for Medicaid will be eligible for tax credits and shared costs; the rest of us are on our own. There’s also the option of paying a fine for not obtaining health insurance at all. When it comes to HIX, there were three options available for states and none of them were appealing. Missouri has chosen to pass on option one; establishing our own insurance exchange. We also passed on option two; partnering with the federal government. We are accepting option three which is to let the feds run an exchange for us. That puts the monkey on their backs, not ours and if we’re stuck with the HIX, this is viewed as the best option. The feds were so sure states would choose option one (state managed exchanges) that they didn’t plan on a majority of states choosing NOT to play along with the first two options of the national healthcare plan; Missouri being one of them. Thus far, option two and three have been the most popular with option three being slightly ahead. The partnering idea for creating exchanges has very little participation. The federal government has demonstrated it can’t protect our borders, it can’t protect our money, it can’t properly manage our social security, and it can’t be trusted to efficiently operate the most powerful military this world has ever known! And, they want us to trust them with our healthcare under the rules of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? It’s like the bully on the playground that says, “I’ll give you all my marbles if you play by my rules.” Then he starts changing the rules because he thinks he can and before long he becomes the holder of all the marbles, including yours! There are reasons healthcare is so expensive and unaffordable for many people. That’s a whole other topic of discussion but most Missourians recognize what the real problems are. Final Thoughts: I don’t claim to be the smartest guy in the room but I know this much; the constitution was not established so the government Thursday, February 28, 2013 THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Page 7 could control the people; it was established so the people could control the government. The people of the United States should be in charge of our governmental decisions. We, as states, should also respect the government of our county and cities, those closest to the issues. And, those of us elected by the people, should do our best, every day, to be a reflection of the people we represent and to honor our oath of office! Thanks for your many emails and phone calls in support of what I do on your behalf at the capitol. Email: don.phillips@house. mo.gov Phone: 573-751-3851. Address: Rep. Don Phillips, House Post Office, Room 135, 201 W. Capitol Ave., Jefferson City, MO 65101. Marionville Library Want to stay safe? Want to protect your family? Want to protect your business and farm? Join us at the Marionville Branch Library 303 W Washington Monday– March 25th, 2013 6:30 pm CPL Krissa Smith, Dawnielle Robinson MS, LPC and Detective Kozisek will share some ways that you can stay safe. Children’s activities will be provided. For more information– call (417) 463-2675 FREE OFFER http://tlc.library.net/bll/ We are now offering invitations for your special events through McPhearsons! Come by and look at our vast selection! If you are wanting to submit a Letter To The Editor, you MUST come by our office and sign a waiver and have a copy of your Drivers License. Also, If you are wanting the name of a person who submitted a Letter, you MUST come to our office in person and we will release the name to you. NOT BY PHONE IT’S A LAW!!
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