Dear Editor:
How did we get here?
A graduating HS honor student, one of many eighteen-year-olds detained and deported without parents or family. Are we safer now? Hey ICE, wasn’t it supposed to be drug dealers and rapists?
Seniors anxious that 401Ks won’t cover their retirement because fiscal chaos destabilizes financial markets. Hey Mr. Speaker, how great is that?
Grocery prices soaring out of control. Certainly, they can’t still be blaming the previous administration? Oh, yes! they can. Hey Trump-Vance platform writers, is that egg on your face?
Allies and adversaries skewering TACO tariffs. Our allies don’t trust us. We’ve lost the respect of the international community. Putin is not our friend. Hey DT, a great big parade doesn’t replace cogent, consistent, and coherent policy.
Millions of dollars spent stroking the president’s ego. Hey sycophants, this is a bottomless pit. Too much is never enough with this guy. That beautiful (no-strings, of course) new Air Force One. That beautiful (clearly urgent) new White House ballroom. That beautiful (self-congratulatory) military parade. That beautiful (self-serving) tax cut for the mega-wealthy.
Millions of Veterans and Medicaid recipients are projected to lose health care while the Big Ugly Bill adds trillions (with a “t”) to the national debt. Hey Mr. Cave-in Hurd, you’re not strengthening Medicaid. Let’s be honest. You’re inflicting a great deal of pain on your most vulnerable constituents in service to your big-money doners who are ruining - oops! - running this country.
Medical research grants canceled. Arts and Sciences trashed. Cultural centers hijacked. Museums and libraries censored. Environmental and weather monitoring canceled. National Parks critically understaffed. FEMA handicapped. Hey Nazi-wannabes, reaching for great new lows, are ya? Succeeding at that.
Have we lost our common sense? Our ability to grasp basic math? Our self-respect? Our humanity? There is nothing in Trump’s extreme agenda that speaks of greatness. It all adds up to a mean-spirited, short-sighted money and power grab.
Hey clear-eyed Americans, please speak out before it gets even worse.
Hurd (DC) 202-225-4676.
Sincerely,
Kathy Muth
