A wonderful thing happened after this nation was formed. Did New York’s Governor Clinton wish to strike out for himself and create the “Empire State” and leave the remainder of the colonies behind? Was he only interested in himself? Were there others who were behind Governor Clinton? What did they do regarding the states’ rights issue of the day? Empire State? Commerce? Economy and commerce by spending, not holding back? Risks? You bet.
According to author, Larry Lowenthal (Marinus Willett: Defender of the Northern Frontier; others, too), Governor Clinton and people who were close to him, such as my ancestor and namesake, Col. Marinus Willett, wished to make New York an empire and NOT join with the other colonies in forming a new Federal Constitution. Governor Clinton’s vision for New York City and the commercial development of New York in its entirety involved leveling hills on Manhattan island and digging a “ditch” from the Hudson River to the area now known as Buffalo, in the Niagara Frontier, located on Lake Erie. President Washington was jealous of this move because he wanted the commonwealth of Virginia to be the “top dog” (Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters).
Andrew Carnegie utilized government and business alliances to build railroads. Without the government, westward expansion would not have been completed. One can say it may have been better for the native indigenous people. That is true. There are some things in my own life which, if I could go back and do again, some things MIGHT have been better, too. What’s the point? Progress is progress. The problem is that white supremacists do not want to share the progress with others who have a different skin color.
One of my favorite Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt, said: “Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much.
Is this difficult to understand?
Senator Barasso of Wyoming, as well as so many of those involved with the Proud Boys and the thugs of America who attacked our government, all forget to thank those of the past, whether white, black, Asian, brown, male, female, gay, Lesbian, or what not, for what they have today which puts this nation in better position than some of the less developed nations of civilization who are BEGGING to receive something like vaccines for COVID-19.
In my first paragraph, I mention my namesake. Others in my ancestry who have all been both patriots and pioneers for the USA, in spite of sometimes wishing for other things (like the Empire State of New York rather than a nation; suppose debatable, but some is what I recall from New York State History class in 7th grade with Art Evans who described the fights NY had with other states/colonies – Massachusetts wishing to extend itself in a straight path westward through what people in New York City/New Amsterdam wished to pursue and the Vermont Green Mountain boys), were also pioneers across a band of the USA, from Boston to Seattle, over many generations. Clinton may have built what those who scoff at the Erie Canal as being “Clinton’s Ditch,” proclaiming and shouting their bloviated crap about it, brought labourers from Europe who came here for seven-year indentured servitude and then released (Italians, Irish, Greek). Carnegie built the railroad westward with help of whom? Was it not from people of Asia called Japanese or Chinese? Whom? Who helped Barasso and others in leading the way for the state which he now represents in the U.S. Senate? What about the expansion to Senator Thune’s South Dakota?
Republican Teddy Roosevelt also said, “He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.” Wish many Americans would bury their damn egotistical operations and take this which was said by TR more seriously.
So, Mr. Expert (drip under pressure), Senator Barasso, you sit there with others and attack President Biden and the Democrats regarding their stimulus package and cite him for mistakes BEFORE we see the results. Rick Scott of Florida wished to cite professionals like me who were teaching in the classroom BEFORE we were assessed and THEN assess us with ridiculous crap, while these senators and the wealthy of big pharma, big insurance, big business, are not held accountable, at all. A whole slew of “experts,” or “drips under pressure,” as we would sometimes repeat when I was working on a U.S. Air Force base. Trump, too. he never makes mistakes and so he makes no progress at FULLY solving the problems of this nation by getting to the details of what we have to do to stop illegal immigration and immigration of those who are criminals with drugs. The wall may have cleared things up for a town or tow on the border with Mexico, but, if it had succeeded, Mr. Drip Under Pressure Senator Barasso, why are there STILL people coming into this nation, even with the wall? And you and others wish to pre-assess President Biden and affix the blame on him? How stupid and despicable. The man who once spoke some sense, until he mentions the divisive thing in order to bash “blue states.” More like, how much can you do to SABOTAGE “blue states,” with the use of a KKK, Proud Boys, or other sources?
Mr Drip Under Pressure (from fear of retribution from Trump and the Trumpicans), I have ancestors who were pioneers to Wyoming. As I said, from Boston to Seattle. From Boston to New York City, up the Hudson, westward into the hinterland in upstate New York, to Michigan, to Dakota Territory, to Nebraska to Wyoming and finally to the state of Washington. I am thankful, due to those pioneers. Are you, Mr. Drip Under Pressure? You don’t seem to appreciate anything which has given us the economy and commerce through progress.
Mr. Drip Under Pressure, do you realize what happened when a bipartisan effort of the late 1990s drained the Federal budget, but replenished it later, as well as improved the economy? Or would you rather be a pessimistic self-fulfilling prophet so as to get your way, when we are now spending money to bolster people and local governments? What is it that Mr. Drip Under Pressure and so many other Republicans want? I have no idea, especially when Judy Woodruff asked the same question THREE TIMES tonight in your interview and you never answered the question once. instead, your egotistical mind went back to what YOU wished to impart and tell Ms. Woodruff and NOT answer the question. After the interview, I really failed to understand what Dr. Barasso was trying to impart. I am not a fool or someone who has difficulty understanding. Barasso gave us no explanation which made any sense.
I sit and listen. Nothing. At one time, I would sit and listen to a former Republican politician who was an engineer at IBM, as he explained many things. I listened and learned. With you, Mr. Drip Under Pressure, I listened but I learned NOTHING.
As a campaign organizer for Bill Clinton wrote in the 1992 election when Clinton ran against an incumbent George H.W. Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid [referencing Mr. Bush].” Sounds like a bloody mean thing to say, eh? It is. But when someone does not get the point and address the REAL issues, that statement is not so far off the mark.
Mr. Drip Under Pressure, Senator Barasso, this stimulus package is about getting the economy humming again and balancing the Federal budget so we can move forward. There is no perfection. You should be ashamed to have an expectation that it will NOT work, is there? But at least give it a chance.
When Trump talked about dealing with China with a tariff and so forth, I had hopes that it might work. I heard some people make a claim that “it won’t work.” I heard the claim, not from a Democrat, but from Republicans. I could understand what they said about it not working. Still, I did not practice “political witch hunting,” as Trump has falsely claimed about Democrats, WITH NO EVIDENCE, except tweets with lies. I had high hopes, in spite of what some were saying. I am more inspired right now about what President Biden and the Democrats are attempting to do regarding the stimulus package.
Tonight, I heard NOTHING from you, Mr. Drip Under Trump Retribution Pressure. Repeat. I heard nothing. I sensed a fear of retribution if you did not carry through and avoid the Woodruff questions. I heard a fear of retribution should you not bloviate lies about immigration and so forth (and Woodruff called you on those lies, did she not?). I heard other lies designed ONLY to put down Democrats, not solve the problems of America. I heard lies to put down blue states, not to solve the problems of America.
Shame on you and the other Trumpican Drips Under Retribution Pressure who lead this nation astray.
Mentioning you are a doctor meant what? That you are like the elitist snotty character, Frasier, in a 1990s sitcom. The character who bloviated that he “was a psychiatrist and a graduate of Harvard” The doctor who won my respect dropped out in his bid to become president and defeat George W. Bush, in 2004. I don’t recall that he lied, but maybe he did and I missed it. I am not a perfect expert.
The stimulus package is about the economy, not acting like a bunch of dumb dimwitted Republicans like those when FDR was in charge and he made attempts to meet half way and then failed to improve the economy. He tried to get us to help Britain when it was being bombed by Hitler, but Republicans refused to go along, until, like other reactionary measures, ultimately it costs more money in the long run so as to avoid spending in the short term.
Historical evidence, stupid, from which we learn, rather than use it so as to seek to REPEAT it – like Jim Crow, suppression of voters, and continuing systemic racism.
I can go on and on and on, but people claim my writing is too lengthy. When I get on a roll, I get on a roll.
I am not perfect, so I write to teach, inform, and consider constructive criticism for errors of fact. Period. I don’t write to express an opinion. If anything, my intent is like Walter Cronkite, who ended each news program with, “And that’s the way it was…” At least we had a better sense of what reality was and not the reality blowing in the air by Tweets or social media – aspiring dictators and their own reality imposed upon Americans.
Tioga Herald 
New York Times Book Review (March 14, 2021 by Ted Genoways): Mark Bittman Book: Animal, Vegetable, Junk
After reading a review written by Ted Genoways, Professor Cornwell is interest in locating and reading this book, Animal, Vegetable, Jun: From Sustainable to Suicidal. It contains a “sweeping history of our sources of food, tracking the shift from agriculture to agribusiness.” It will be interesting to understand the path for the future, as Bittman sees it, as we move forward with the nominee for the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture nominee, Tom Vilsack.
What caught Cornwell’s attention was the discussion about how agribusiness has hurt farming and agriculture in smaller rural areas. The reference was to “ranches,” which can be compared to large or factory farms. It is understood that such farms in “rural areas” have been hurt. Professor Cornwell then asks, what about non-factory farms in rural areas such as Upstate New York? Cornwell has always spoken up about the destruction of small business, the backbone of America as it developed, with big corporate “boxes” created by “free market” methods with which Cornwell has no stomach. It has been written that “free markets” are good for some who pick themselves up from nothing and become huge corporations in the process, only to then destroy the “free markets.” This idea can be considered analogous to another an issue discussed in another book review in this edition of the New York Times (“Pilgrim Law,” by Frances J. Bremer in a review of Tobey Pearl’s book, Terror to the Wicked: America’s First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation). This would be idea that religious organizations which have seen discrimination against their own people but then they become the “discriminators.” Same thing with “free market” advocates like Libertarians and anarchists as big corporations are developed into monopoly-style businesses and then work, like Roman gladiators, to destroy the competition. Religious groups work to destroy the competition, the same as Roman gladiators did to Christians and others in the arenas of Ancient Rome. Dictatorship.
To justify this sense of being “unchecked corporatization” and “laissez-faire economics,” The discussion centers on the “delineation” between this activity in America to what Joseph Stalin did to agriculture in the former Soviet Union. Professor Cornwell has been discussing facts that there IS no delineation between centralized economics of big corporate monopolized industries of ANY kind, to what the big communes of the former Soviet Union. Both are based on supply side economics with no concern for the demand side, which is truly a major part of capitalism and capitalist competition which can be controlled by regulatory practices from a third party: the government. Otherwise, we end up with the supply side of the economic picture regulating itself, similar to a government which controls the supply side by removing corporate businesses completely. Both are dictatorial and in the case of the USA, there is too much influence by the big corporate giants and the 1% of those who own the resources, of our government by way of PACs and lobbyists. Does this type of lobbyist and PAC influence exist in Senator Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont? Do not big corporations exist in Vermont only in more densely populated areas of the state, thus helping to make the small businesses more like King David, the underdog, when fighting the big Goliath of the industries?
New York state and other states, too, lose out (perhaps Vermont, too?), due to the hills. Such states were once the largest producers of agricultural goods in the USA. Between Prohibition and the development of factory farms, New York is one state which has been hurt. After all, with soil in hilly areas, big factory farm equipment is unusable. Cornwell’s late father mentioned this when asked why there are no factory farms in New York. Was he correct?
In the hills of Pennsylvania, the observation which could be made is that its industry was the coal industry. Now, without the coal industry, what about factory farms on the hills of Pennsylvania? One could say that Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, with the hills, are hurt by the factory farms.
What was not mentioned in this review of a book was the impact of the fast food industry on the increased obesity and rates of type II diabetes in America. Certainly, America as the breadbasket of the world is one of honor for America. However, in documentaries discussing the low cost of fast foods, those who are low income have turned to the fast foods. In America, which parts of the population generally fall more into the “lower classes?” According to documentaries about the increase of diabetes, which groups of Americans have seen an increase in diabetes to a great extent?
Into the picture comes big pharma. We are delighted at the great role America takes with big pharma, yet we ignore the fact that lower class people are usually those who suffer from larger unemployment or work at jobs which do not provide healthcare insurance (as was done to America by lousy, lousy, lousy former Governor Rick Scott of Florida, now a lousy, lousy, lousy U.S. Senator and the goons who are attempting to destroy Obamacare, designed to help stimulate CAPITALIST COMPETITION, not SOCIALISM, as the liars who wish to destroy it make a lousy false claim. Professor Cornwell is angered by this attitude and its strong influence with money, over people of America.
Yes, there is a wonderful thing for lower cost fast foods. But how much fast food can one eat and then purchase trade name meds at ripoff prices. Fast food and this food industry today, with many of its retailers, do little or nothing to provide foods which are better for diabetics. Yes. “We have the bananas,” but the foods which are highlighted are GF or gluten free. All for those types of diets. Fact. Cornwell’s mother and maternal grandmother rarely ate fast foods. The diabetes developed later in life. Go ahead, twist it all around because of not being comfortable if there might be some truth to this and the truth hurts.
Thanks so much for big fat corporate conglomerate agribusiness and the fast food industry. The fast food industry like McDonald’s, was run by vicious people like Ray Kroc who worked diligently to locate new restaurants in places where there were nearby “mom and pop” restaurants. They grabbed at the “instant gratification” movement. Being blamed for this “reality” today is the development of fast food businesses, due to females of the 1960s who wanted to get out of the kitchen and go work in jobs. Oh, really? What a sad thing to consider. Perhaps it was the big corporate misogynists who just found a way to take advantage of this situation and then work for “anything goes” ideas resulting in sexual harassment?
The bumper sticker was, “Women belong in the House [of Representatives], not the kitchen.” With many female Democrats going to the “House,” Trump and his misogynist friends don’t like that. In fact, he gropes women and gets away with it, along with all the other crap for which he gets acquitted.
Today, McDonald’s wishes to replace employees with robots. Wonderful. And how is this move going to justify what happens to the supply siders in their thrust for dictatorship in America. Then we have people out of work and turning to drugs, then beef up law and order because “idle hands is the devil’s playground.”
Reading the book might help clear up anything, should there be a misunderstanding here. Do we await the availability in Upstate New York libraries or purchase one? Is there a library which rents all the newest books and checks them out to patrons? Hmmmm… That would be nice.
Folks can be thankful for the reviews in the New York Times. Folks can stay abreast of the latest books and that works, too.
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