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Donald Trump has made America unrecognizable

DEAR EDITOR: Star Parker doesn’t get it. She thinks everything is political. It is not that Democrats don’t love the United States, we just don’t recognize it any more. Can you imagine Eisenhower or Kennedy hawking gold shoes or Bibles for sale on TV or selling them in the White House? None of the other presidents destroyed part of “the People’s House” to make it look like a gaudy casino. Don’t let him destroy the Kennedy Center! Did you have to hustle your kids out of the room when other presidents were on TV because they were making crude remarks about disabled people ...

The real cost of Trump’s war for Americans

DEAR EDITOR: Trump attacks Iran, you pay. A $100,000 retirement fund invested to mirror the S&P 500 has lost $5,000 since Trump’s attack. If you had $200,000 invested you’ve lost $10,000 ... in 3 weeks. But wait, there’s more. The Pentagon wants a fresh $200 BILLION to keep fighting Trump’s war. That’s money you’ll be paying. Hold on, we’re not finished. Gas is up 30+%. So if you drive 1,000 miles a month and buy 30 gallons of gas, that’s about $30 more a month or $360 a year — more if you drive more or get under 33 miles a gallon. BILL ADAMS Austintown

Trump suffers from a failure to execute

DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump has great bumper sticker ideas. Secure our borders, election integrity, lower taxes, transparency. The problem is he is incapable of properly executing any of them as policy. It’s difficult to have a sovereign nation without secure borders. However, sending under-trained, incompetent, unidentifiable, armed thugs to cities governed by Democrats to arrest, and invade without legitimate reason or warrant using unnecessary roughness is not helpful and possibly illegal. If half of ICE funding were spent on enough immigration courts to handle immigrants seeking ...

Stuck with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presidency

DEAR EDITOR: Mr. Donald Trump ran as Dr. Jekyll and morphed into a Mr. Hyde. We’ve been forewarned. In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave us a clue of what might come. Again in 2024, Kamala Harris predicted the outcome if Mr. Trump became president. Nevertheless, our testosterone-fueled nation disagreed. “What the heck do they know? They’re only women; their jobs are in the kitchen.” Today’s battle cry from our president is “Macho, Macho, Macho,” as well as the echoes of the Republican Party on the brink of insanity. Our president, Mr. Fabulous, introduced the so-called ...

YSU should practice due diligence as it expands

DEAR EDITOR: I am cautiously optimistic about YSU opening a satellite campus in Steubenville. Four members of my family are YSU graduates with six degrees in widely varied fields of study. We all faced challenges, but on-campus support services and dedicated faculty who truly wanted their students to succeed helped us complete our degrees and move into fulfilling careers. Our youngest child chose a program that is not available at YSU but could be completed at Kent State East Liverpool. Being neurodivergent, she was concerned about entering college, but hard work and determination ...

Learning the truth about employee-paid health care

DEAR EDITOR: You’re a locally important civic leader with formal authority in your organization and significant influence outside of it. You see the rescission of Obamacare for millions of Americans as a complicating factor with unknown consequences for your thinking about health care. How should you think? What should you and your colleagues in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys’ civic leadership do? Consider this. Approach your colleagues and ask for their public support in proposing the Chief Actuary in the Health Care Financing Administration conduct an investigation into ...