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Energy independence will be easy

To the editor: In his acceptance speech at the RNC, Donald Trump provided a stream of conscious description of the world as he wishes it was but not the world as it is. Repeating themes from his campaign rallies, he made up the story as he went along. Countries are not sending inmates to America from their prisons and asylums. The violent crime rate is going down. According to the CBO, as a percentage of GDP, both Reagan and Obama implemented tax cuts bigger than Trump’s cut. A lie takes a sentence. Refuting a lie may take paragraphs. Trump promised to make America energy ...

Save Social Security

To the editor: A reaction letter was published on July 3 in response to my letter of June 20. I was touched by the lifetime of triumphs and tribulations described by the author. My sympathy goes out to him for his health struggles, particularly waiting so long to receive the disability benefits to which he is entitled. Wait times for approval of Social Security disability benefits are atrocious. According to AARP, “Average time to get initial decision on benefit claim has doubled since 2016 … SSA officials largely pin the breakdown on chronic underfunding. The agency’s ...

Save our democracy

To the editor: Today, July 1st, 2024, six Supreme Court Justices sold out our country paving the way for a dictatorship. Why would they do that!?! If you don’t want a dictator for president you must vote for the only other party that has a chance to win whether you like their policies or not. It’s the only way to save our democracy. Lorna Rafness Marshall

Propaganda and the presidency

To the editor: “It is now apparent that the DNC will push its narrative over facts, regardless of the state of its candidate, whether he is healthy or not. What’s worse is the paid press that claims to be independent but repeats the company line. NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and MS-NBC all follow suit. Both Facebook and Google follow their lead. In 2013, the Smith-Mundt Act allowed the CIA to propagandize the US population. Apparently, many networks and internet companies lined up. How else do you explain the media covering up mental gaps, the running together of words, and other word ...

Repeating history?

To the editor: With the Fourth of July approaching, we would be wise to take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, and read (or reread) the Declaration of Independence and ponder how much the concerns and principles that are written in that document, apply, for good or bad, 248 years later. It should take only minimal discernment to realize we’ve chosen collectively to embrace many facets of government that caused the colonists to declare a separation from Great Britain and King George. There are many spiritual blessings, individually and as a nation, we are currently missing, from ...

Biden saved economy? You live in a bubble

To the editor: (Reply to Biden saves the economy, June 20) Unlike college math teachers who earn a good income, some of us have to survive on a more limited income. The oil reserve was sold to China, not the U.S. market, so it didn’t help the price of oil in the US that much. If we have to replace it, we may be in a World War soon. In terms of jobs, most of the jobs created in the last year were either government jobs, jobs for criminal aliens, or, worst of all, part-time. People whose hours were cut back have to take a low-wage part-time job and now work two jobs. What about the ...