The McDowell Memo

McDowell Memo  July 29th, 2022 Our Farmers in Peril Today it appeared as a news item that our farmland is being purchased by Chinese businesses as a method to control our agricultural economic viability, We are seeing a President that we know has family ties to Chinese businesses in the past, allowing this to occur. When do we say enough is enough?  Hunter Bidens illegal dealings with the Chinese government-controlled parties are documented by his laptop and bank suspicious activity reports. This should be enough for Congress to open hearings into Hunter and Joe Bidens previous activities and whether those activities had compromised the President's ability to control the agricultural rape of our farmers.  Take a minute today and contact your Senator and Congressional Representative to ask for a congressional investigation and public hearings.  Tucker Carlson: While China buys up American farmland, we may run out of food | Fox News Ron DeSantis calls out 'huge problem...

Keep our sense of humor it's important  When the whole world seems to be at war with itself and the plague has arrived, it's time to look back at what makes us laugh and spend time on that . So here goes  Jerry Clower 

Why Tioga County Needs A Local Hospital                  Up until the early 1980’s , Tioga county had a hospital , Tioga General in Waverly where Elderwood Nursing facility is now. The reason that this hospital was non-sustainable economically then was the proximity to Robert Packer in Sayre, Pa. only about a 5-minute drive from anywhere in Waverly . Since that time Tioga County has been one of the very few NYS Counties without a hospital. For along part of the ensuing history, there was almost no need for a local hospital because Ideal, Wilson and Robert Packer were all growing and services especially Emergency Room services were enough for the population that the county had. Yes, they were in many cases a long drive in an emergency but manageable. First, United Health Closed Ideal and turned it in to a type of nursing home. Then when the population started to diminish in the triple cities, Wilson ...

As we enter 2020, we are faced with the potential to improve the lives of our children and grandchildren and the opportunity to fail them miserly.          This year we will be faced with decisions such as staying in the Middle East, eliminating the North Korean threat, impeaching a President for disagreeing with the opposing party, and reducing the size of government and the huge number of regulations on us all.   We have for over 20 years had a presence in the middle east to "keep the peace" when in reality , they do not want peace it is a religious war between rival Muslim factions against each other and all "infidels". Do we have the need or right to keep them from killing each other? Do we have to be on the ground there to protect our interests in oil? I would propose that we need to back away and let them settle their wars. But keep protection of the oil that they owe us for driving out the dictators. And I contend that we need to do mos...

What a Year it has Been This year has been a year of great accomplishments and great disasters      We have had the greatest economic year in the past 50 years . Lowest unemployment , over a trillion dollars back into the US in profit earned over seas that companies would not bring back because of our high tax on these profits. That made for the highest investment in the US by our companies since the 60s. With this jobs became available and people went back to work , the welfare rolls dropped .  But we also had a year long session of investigations, hearings and finally an impeachment that wasn't yet ready to send to the Senate all of which caused the average American to lose confidence in our government as a whole in following the rule of law and be fair and consistent in it's actions. We saw violent acts committed by insane parties and also by violent fringes of both the left and right. But , we again saw the media portray many items with out telling the whole...

Emergency Services dropping out of our ability to sustain  As many of you know for the last 10 years I have railed against government imposing training standards and equipment standards on small and rural Fire Depts and Emergency / Ambulance Services. We now know see the impact of those increasingly restrictive regulations on local communities in Upstate New York. Many small areas have stopped providing EMS and the slack has had to be taken up by adjoining communities. In some cases the communities have gone to charging which if the medical insurance industry would lower the co pays to a reasonable amount might be somewhat sustainable. But, they haven't and I assume won't unless the state forces them to. On average the co pay is about $350 for basic and $500+ for Advanced care needs. If you are the poor senior citizen living on Social Security in a rural area this could mean the difference between paying the bill and eating for the month.  Fire companys are not excluded f...

The Speed of a life may not be the Quality of Life we want I set tonight thinking about how when I was young I had so much free time to hunt, date, read, and yes sleep. Today we are awakened early each day to be able to get our "Face" on as they say. Today we have special body wash soap with fragrances , when I was young Gramma insisted on Borax soup better described as smell with sandpaper. It would take off all the dead skin and four or five layers of live skin. Ladies there was no need to defoliate. But you know my skin was a lot better then and I felt cleaner. For your hair you had what ever was on sale. No blow dryers or fancy hair machines there was a comb and Brylcream gel to slick it all down. Then for Breakfast you had a sit down with the folks and eggs and bacon and toast , no breakfast sandwiches made in a microwave they didn't exist, no bagels we didn't know what they were. You walked to school and stood in line at the door. Once in school , teachers ...