rick caruso is founder of ca caruso, one of the largest privately held real estate companies in the country there was a headline from the "l.a. times" that caught my attention, dire covid warnings ignored as people follow holiday traditions >> i read that also. it's in the 70s and clear skies. it's human nature. we all have a shared responsibility to follow the rules and protect each other and protect our community. but clearly people are out, clearly people are traveling and people want to continue to celebrate the holidays with family and friends and it appears that the surge we're seeing now from what i've read is tied back to the holiday travel during thanksgiving and also the gatherings during thanksgiving so what i'm worried about is we're going to see that again in a few weeks after the christmas holiday. i know it's tough on people but we can see the end zone at this point, which is great. i would ask everybody to be as disciplined as possible, be as smart as possible. but people are still out shopping they're still out of properties, they are seeking safety and seeking joy, rewardi

over two centuries before the philosophers caruso expressed the idea these pilgrim settlers were living it. they had grasped that freedom means not lawlessness, but living in accordance with the law that you dictate to yourself. so as inauspicious as this event was at the time, taking place so far away from the known world, the centers of power and influence and population and civilization, it proved to be a crucial milestone in the development of self-governing political institutions. the signatories were following the same pattern of self-government that new englanders would use in organizing their churches, justice in the congress gong greg congregation and asserted their right to do so. what made these developments even more astonishing is they amounted to a real world dram dramatize, here they had done it, and done it years before john locke and thomas hock son had gotten around to forming the idea, not to mention a century and a half before the declaration of independence, which would pro claim they derive their consent from the government, famous words and that is the right to ha

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but one things that people know a little less about him because they think of robinson caruso and so forth is that he was from the very beginning as enthusiasts of the new ideas. the very first in the book was an acacia on projects. it was a catalog and celebration of all of the things people were trying to do, new ways to farm the land and ways to manufacture. he loved that stuff. and as britain actually invented the tools of credit. aggressively in the 1690s inventing what we now call the idea of a national debt. that is a thing that has a birthday, right? and that recent has a birthday up until then and the european system and certainly in england, the idea behind running these dates of finances is ultimately rested on the person of the monarch. the person of the money has many, many removes by the time you get to this. but it is still in theory the king's purse or the queens purs purse. and what happened in the 1690s that change. parliaments control and they started contracting stetson authorizing them by parliament. trying different revenue streams they could get for this was a

adam caruso, ann dwyer, jonathan goldman, terry harvey, sally yang, christian lunda, greta paisch, ashley schipitle, beth frable, jamie white, arielle warnoff. special committee on aging -- stacy sanders, josh cramer. from the committee on indian affairs, kim moxley, anthony sadio. i'm sure this is very hard on our typists, but thank you very much. from the committee on small business and entrepreneurship, sean moore, ron storehog, jacob press. from the committee on rules and administration, dusty brandenberg and lindsey kirk. to all of those great people and many more -- i apologize if there are some we left out -- thank you, thank you, thank you. to everyone on the committees. and i also want for a moment to thank my staff. everyone believes they have the best staff on the hill. i am certainly no exception. i would never, ever, ever be able to do what i do without them. i know over the past several days many of them have tested the limits of exhaustion, hardly sleeping at all. but i want them to know that all their energy, ingenuity, and brilliance will have made the lives of their fell