Over the last 8 days (4/3/25) personnel from the US and many other NATO allies, especially Poland, Estonia, and Lithuania worked around the clock to locate and recover 4 American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania. As Washington rattles about the relevance of NATO and critically damages the US relationship with all of our European allies, we must not forget the sheer camaraderie, care, and bravery that all serving under NATO have for each other. The streets of Villnius were filled today, not with cars, but with people lining the route of 4 hearses that carried the remains of 4 fallen American soldiers as the small Baltic nation bid one of the greatest thank-yous and farewells I have ever witnessed for American enlisted men on international soil. The sight of American and Lithuanian flags were everywhere. Even Major General Curtis Taylor of the US was amazed at the love and response of the Lithuanian people. More people today live in free countries, with free and fair elections, freedoms of speech, religion and press than at any time in the history of the world. That is in no small part, because of the US and the example and military we have to protect those with less than we have. We also have the greatest economy the world has ever known for the same reasons. We must not abandon or shrink from our responsibilities to be that example and assist those who have freedom or yearn for it around the globe. Please take a minute to express your gratitude to our Congressman and Women and encourage them to live up to the example that has created this blanket of freedom and to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for it.

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Recently, some in the federal government have been calling for the privatization of certain public sector services like the post office, Amtrak, airports, and air traffic control. We explore if this is a good idea. The short answer is: it depends. Certain services, like waste collection, work really well in private hands; some private school competition is good for education. But some services have been set up to fail and don't have to. Dozens of airports are being replaced or upgraded with almost no project using any tax dollars. That is great value for the air traveler and the cities working on these projects. Amtrak has one section of rail that they own and is actually profitable, the NE corridor. If the federal government hadn't been deliberately starving this entity of funding, so many more routes would be profitable. It needs continued subsidy because the government has poorly funded it. Clearly, it is well managed, since the area they focused on, they own, are upgrading and is profitable. The Post office is another one. It would be self-sustaining, but Congress has, on more than one occasion, raided the pension fund for its own use. How can that remain solvent if Congress keeps stealing from them?

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In this episode, we look at the brilliance of how our founders created a country they knew was imperfect and how we have made it more perfect throughout the 250 years of our existence. While there is still work to be done, the US has always expanded rights for its people throughout our history. We should always be wary of anyone trying to limit rights of the people. Remember the US government is not the boss; We the People are. Power in our government comes from the consent of the governed, not the other way around.

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