DEAR EDITOR:

All American multi-billionaires hire lobbyist firms with huge sums of their money to lobby our Congress “to get whatever they want,” a threat to our democracy, foreign policy and workers’ cost-of-living wages. It must be true, money talks and “BS” walks.

In 1980, 45 years ago, two labor unions endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan for president: the Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) organization and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Reagan fired all the PATCO members when they went on strike for airplane safety, a very demanding, stressful job keeping all those airplanes and helicopters apart in the sky.

Sound familiar? Multibillionaire Elon Musk eliminated many jobs for Trump under the assumption of government bloating.

Musk and Trump will be friends again — billionaires stick together.

All the many big trucking companies represented by the Teamsters Union, dockworkers, pick up and delivery, and road drivers across America are all gone in 2025. These were employees who could afford to build or buy a home, pay high rent and participate in our 2025 economy — again all gone!

The American Trucking Association must have a well-funded lobbyist firm? So my question to the ATA — who is responsible for all the Teamster jobs that have been lost?

Under the Republican administrations from Nixon to Trump, the wealthy keep getting richer and the American workers keep getting poorer. When is it all going to stop?

DAVID P. GAIBIS SR.

Edinburg, Pa.