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Editor’s Note: Although written over 140 years ago, the Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by then President Abraham Lincoln gives more than a small bit of applicable advice to our handling of the economic challenges of today as compared with our nation coping with the terrible civil war of that day. That similarity is that of keeping our faith.

More than enough can be said about the government bailout of the financial wizards who got us into this recession mess in the first place. As usual, our politicians are primarily interested in saving their campaign contribution meal tickets and if anything is left they might have a consideration for the rest of us.

To add to my column of last Friday about the building of a road to where existing roads already go, I have to share information from a phone call I received from a friend in this regard. This person may or may not know the real story, but the information is so illogical and ridiculous, as is usually the case when dealing with the state and it’s agencies, it has the ring of validity.

 And then there’s that old saying, “You win some and you lose some,” which applies to getting information from folks about stuff that other people don’t want you to know. However, in the case of my information source who told me the Blue Springs highway project was the result of a promise our governor made to Toyota, I think there were some guarantees about distances and elapsed times between plants and they are being used to justify and camouflage some additional reasons for the road to go where roads already go.