DOGE ditches efficiencyfor lawlessness
We’re having the fallacious public dialog about federal authorities “efficiency” and spending cuts. It’s not about effectivity in any respect. It’s about lawlessness.
I supply the next analogy: In case you are involved about crime in your neighborhood, and also you present up on the police station and open your trunk to point out them the “suspects” you’ve apprehended, they’re not going to reward your industriousness. They’re going to throw you in jail as a result of vigilantism could be very dangerous. It results in our bodies hanging in timber and mobs with pitchforks and outlaws within the sheriff’s workplace.
Proper now, we shouldn’t be asking whether or not any of the our bodies in timber (DOGE cuts) are actually horse thieves (wasteful spending), we must be asking how the outlaws received into the sheriff’s workplace and the way we get them out.
John BiundoWalnut Creek
Voters purchased Trump’sline about value of eggs
One of many fundamental causes folks voted for Donald Trump was the worth of groceries, particularly, eggs.
Regardless of inflation being tamed by President Biden, eggs had been nonetheless a bit larger final November than earlier than the COVID pandemic, which killed over 180,000 needlessly throughout Trump’s first presidency. A slim majority voted Republican, for cheaper eggs.
How’s that working for us? Ummm, not so good. Eggs at the moment are twice the worth they had been when Democrats misplaced the election. Some blame chicken influenza; some blame inflation. Trump’s choose for Well being and Human Companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is unlikely to manage the chicken flu since he’s anti-vax. If chicken flu jumps into the human inhabitants, 1000’s extra folks will die. You may thank Republican senators who confirmed RFK’s nomination, together with the opposite incompetent Cupboard secretaries, whose solely qualification is to observe Trump all the way down to oblivion.
Republicans’ insurance policies carry cheaper eggs? You’ve been fooled once more.
Bruce JoffePiedmont
Trump merely enforcinglaw on immigrants
Re: “Trump’s orders are a reminder of WWII Japanese internment” (Web page A8, Feb. 16).
President Trump has not declared warfare on immigrants. It’s warfare upon unlawful entries, a vital distinction. As a authorized immigrant and proud American citizen, I deplore unlawful entry to our nation, whereas candidates who do it the proper manner wait for his or her quotas to come back up.
The president is America’s protector-in-chief. He has a congressional mandate. That “people suffer” is abjectly horrific however of no pertinence to this course of. One breaks our legal guidelines, one dangers seize and prosecution. Criminals break our legal guidelines, they endure, therefore harmless households endure. Folks endure.
The comparability to the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Individuals is irrelevant, albeit against the law to humanity we are going to lengthy remorse.
Robin HallWalnut Creek
We should sound alarmon Musk-Trump ‘coup’
As an 82-year-old elder, I’ve lived via many political crises on this nation — however I’ve by no means seen an assault on our democracy like this.
Up to now, there was bipartisan opposition to lawlessness. As we speak, the guardrails are being dismantled earlier than our eyes, and we should sound the alarm to defeat the Elon Musk-Donald Trump coup.
Martha BreedWalnut Creek
GOP senators’ silenceis wake-up name to U.S.
Watching the present administration’s dismantling of our democracy is gut-wrenching. Governing by presidential decree, threatening our allies and neighbors, making a mockery of our current legal guidelines and Structure aren’t democracy. These actions strongly contradict the oath of workplace, to uphold and shield the Structure. The phantasm of lowering authorities paperwork, “saving the country,” is in actuality consolidating all energy to 1 man. Merely, his ball, his sport, his guidelines, the vast majority of Individuals be damned.
Our Structure intentionally separates energy between three coequal branches of presidency to forestall this sort of takeover, or it did. Republican congressional members are willfully complicit by their inaction and silence. Living proof, Trump’s cupboard appointments, largely a set of disgracefully unqualified puppets, all receiving Senate approval. The diploma of head-in-the-sand capitulation by Republican senators ought to function a wake-up name to all Individuals.
James MillsWalnut Creek
