D.C. insurance policies ignore kids’s plight
The federal government shutdown is a joke that’s not humorous. You virtually snort within the face of these conservatives claiming to guard infants by removing Roe v. Wade, whereas clamoring to honor households.
But right this moment, the “don’t give a rattling” Republicans in Congress (who’ve barely been in D.C. for the previous month) have shut down the federal government with the implications of inflicting kids to go hungry with out meals advantages. The ruthless shutdown means some households aren’t getting an revenue.
I shudder to assume how limiting well being care on this nation will have an effect on kids; if in a roundabout way, maybe one or each of their dad and mom’ well being. Then contemplate the dearth of funding to the Division of Schooling, one other lower that has direct adverse results on kids.
I see so many of those similar “children-loving” people have their mouths transferring together with their writing declaring that they’re Christians. Christianity and harming kids will not be synonymous. Actually although, in the event you look to our chief, I doubt he actually thinks about kids on this nation. {Golfing} comes first; cash for doable funding goes to Argentina, or to actually destroying the historical past of the White Home for a ballroom for his rich pals.
Midge Fournier DeLand
White Home renovation is OK
The Nov. 4 editorial (“Trump unleashed bulldozers on a nationwide treasure”) is pure balderdash. The White Home, the one most People know and love, hasn’t been touched. The East Wing was inbuilt 1902 because of a necessity for assembly house. There’s a additional want right this moment as illustrated by President Barack Obama conducting a state dinner in a tent. Additionally, the complete Rose Backyard wasn’t “paved over.” The grassy space was, which made it extra serviceable, particularly after rain.
Lastly, the development of the ballroom is financed by personal donations, and never at taxpayer expense. That used to incur admiration, not distrust and disdain.
Donald Duenes Orlando
A selfless gesture
Within the midst of warfare, political unrest and Mafia-related playing tales, it warmed my coronary heart to examine financier Timothy Mellon making an nameless $130 million donation to maintain our armed forces paid throughout the shutdown.
George Steinbrenner as soon as mentioned that in the event you do one thing good and greater than two individuals find out about it, you’re doing it for the incorrect causes.
It’s necessary to notice that Mellon made his unbelievable gesture with the intent to stay nameless, however as is commonly the case contained in the Beltway, it’s almost not possible to maintain an excellent story from getting out.
President Trump referred to as Mellon an ideal citizen and a “substantial man.” I recommend that he award Mr. Mellon the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to encourage extra acts of patriotism. And if the shutdown persists, who would be the subsequent patriotic billionaire, with $130 million to spare, to observe Mellon’s lead?
John Sasko Boca Raton
Trump’s juvenile antics
It’s onerous to know how far we’ve fallen as a nation. Our president — the supposed chief of the free world — launched a video of himself sporting a crown, flying a jet and dumping excrement on fellow People. Within the White Home, he’s even changed President Biden’s portrait with a photograph of an autopen.
This isn’t management, it’s juvenile cruelty. If a scholar behaved like this, I feel he’d be despatched to detention or expelled. But hundreds of thousands cheer him on.
Many People — reporters, clergy and residents — have spoken out in disgust. However we want extra voices, extra unity and extra ethical braveness. This isn’t about politics; it’s about decency. How can we maintain our heads excessive as People when infantile cruelty defines our management?
Let’s remind the world who we’re — not with crowns or jets, however with conscience and character.
Pat Matthews Orlando
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