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 To the editor:The year long
run-up to our next presidential election should prove interesting
now that Republican leaders such as Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell,
John Kasich and Mitt Romney have condemned President Trump’s
decision to abandon our Kurdish allies in the Syria.While President
Trump sends our troops as mercenaries in support of Islamic Saudi
Arabia, and while President Trump turns over our Syrian military
bases to Russian forces, informed Americans fret over the fact that
a Turkish despot now holds hostage 50 of our nuclear weapons.
Back at home, a serious blow to President Trump is his son Eric’s
defense of the practice of personal enrichment through the holding
of public office. The President’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,
also has confirmed the Trump practice of self-enrichment at the
public’s expense. The self-dealing the President has been practicing
in plain sight is now a matter of record in Washington D.C. and it
may well generate a vote in the House of Representatives to impeach
Donald Trump in the midst of his bid for re-election.
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For those of us who live in “flyover country,”
disappointment grows as the President fails to deal with the real
issues of our day: growing federal deficits, failure to confront
environmental changes that threaten our roads, bridges, rivers and
crops, high drug prices, continual attacks on our hospitals and our
health care systems, and the unaddressed threat of recession owing
to an unsustainable bubble of student loan debt. If you attend a
school or teach in one, if you farm for a living or if you worry
about the future of your retirement savings and our Social Security
system,if you depend on our hospital and need reasonably priced
drugs, know that you are not alone.The good news is that you may be
one of many whose votes can set things back on the right track.
Apathy won’t do it. Action will. Make sure you are registered to
vote and mark Election Day: November 3, on your new 2020 calendars.
America’s future is in your hands.
Gary Davis [Posted
November 2,
2019]
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