11/26/2024
My Dear Friend & POTUS, JRB,
How nice that you had a beautiful day & a big crowd for the turkey pardon yesterday! I enjoyed your quips, especially, “Keep Calm Gobble On” & “No Fowl Play, just Minnesota nice”. Young Grant & his dad looked tickled pink & Peach gobbled just enough to show her true feathers. Your statement about how the peach blossom symbolizes resilience was poignant.
Friendsgiving with the Staten Island Coast Guard also looked fun. I’m sure the troops appreciated your presence.
I’m curious about your proposal to have Medicare & Medicaid cover GLP-1s that help obese folks. Clearly, many people’s lives are changed when they shed excess weight so for the time being, let’s provide the meds, but let’s not lose sight of our broken food system where the cheapest foods are the unhealthiest. Perhaps along with the drug proposal you could address “Big Food” by adding Regenerative Farming to the Farm Bill & then make sure the Bill passes before you exit DC. We’d all be better off if you could do that!
Today’s news from Burma about the Kachin Independence Army taking the border town of Kanpaiti makes me wonder if the situation in the Greater Himalayan Mts will cause an international crisis as China loses access to the rare earth that is mined there. As I’ve mentioned before rare earth is necessary for everything electronic such as electric motors, wind turbines & high-tech weapons. Of course, we’d all be better off without the weapons but we need the other stuff to address global warming. Please do what you can to ameliorate the situation.
I hope you have fun in Nantucket this week.
BYBS,