VTA strike leavesvulnerable caught
As a disabled girl, the continuing VTA strike has devastated my life. I can’t drive, so I rely on the buses for transportation. I can’t afford Uber day-after-day, so I’m principally caught.
I’m not the one one inconvenienced by this bus strike. How lengthy is that this strike going to proceed to damage our lives?
Alexis NicholsSan Jose
Many commutersneed a brief strike
The VTA strike impacts not solely VTA drivers but in addition passengers who commonly depend on the sunshine rail for transportation.
Though I’m annoyed that I needed to discover another path to San Jose State this morning, I acknowledge that VTA workers are absolutely inside their rights to go on strike in protest of unfair compensation.
In my case, I’m lucky to personal a automotive; I select to take the VTA to high school to economize on gasoline. Nonetheless, many individuals can’t afford the posh of proudly owning a automobile. I hope that VTA will agree with their employees quickly, for the sake of each drivers and passengers.
QB NguyenSan Jose
Trump abandons planto lower seniors’ taxes
Bear in mind Donald Trump’s incessantly repeated promise to eradicate the revenue tax on Social Safety advantages? A easy govt order might try this.
How about, “Senior citizens no longer need to enter Social Security payments they received on their 1040-SR. Should the courts or the legislature overrule this, I am issuing a presidential pardon in advance that absolves all seniors of any interest or penalty based on not claiming the income.” No kind or software program change is important.
Why would this be any totally different from different govt orders? It doesn’t assist his billionaire buddies, for one, and he wants our cash to assist the subsidies for Elon Musk’s companies — not less than $38 billion through the years.
Trump didn’t obtain a mandate — he acquired lower than 50% of votes forged. Businesses being decimated have been there to guard us from crooks and con males.
Jane PowerSan Jose
With democracy hobbled,what’s subsequent for U.S.?
If you happen to keep in mind highschool authorities class, our Founding Fathers created three equally highly effective and impartial branches of presidency: the legislative, the chief and the judicial. This was to guard us from ever having a king once more, and the strain amongst these three branches has saved our democracy wholesome for 250 years.
Donald Trump now controls all three branches of presidency. Moreover, since pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, he has a paramilitary drive (Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and so on.) loyal to him alone. (Bear in mind “Stand back and stand by”?)
Worse, Trump has allied himself with billionaires, i.e., Elon Musk and different tech giants who management a lot of our info. Lastly, he has appointed loyal toadies over the departments of our federal authorities, together with the army.
Our cherished democracy is gone, and we’ve got a king once more. What now?
Don EgglestonAptos
Lack of funding isColumbia’s personal fault
Re: “Trump strips Columbia of $400M in grants, contracts” (Web page A4, March 8).
Columbia College has been generally known as one of the vital hostile campuses for Jewish college students, so it’s only becoming that it will likely be the primary college to lose federal funding for its refusal to make its campus secure for Jews.
4 hundred million {dollars} in grants have been withdrawn by the Trump administration. It was completely avoidable. All Columbia needed to do was to implement its personal code of conduct and implement the regulation when it got here to anti-Israel demonstrations. Threats and intimidation towards Jewish college students ought to have been stopped and takeovers of campus buildings ought to by no means be tolerated.
Each the school administration and college students are studying a easy lesson: actions have penalties. Within the case of the college administration, its inaction additionally has penalties.
Different faculties ought to take observe. Do your job as a result of nothing would make Donald Trump happier than to chop your funding.
Gilbert SteinAptos
Has phrase ‘antisemitism’outlived its usefulness?
Possibly we should always cease utilizing the phrase antisemitism. It might probably imply both anti-Jewish or anti-Israeli.
Anti-Jewish is what we normally imply by antisemitism. It’s a slur on everybody from a sure background. Anti-Israeli is criticism of Israel. That’s one thing all Americans have a proper to do, like criticizing our personal authorities.
To label criticism of a nation (Israel) for its remedy of Semitic folks (Palestinians) antisemitism blurs an essential distinction and lets us interpret an occasion in keeping with our preconceived concepts.
Alex HavasySunnyvale
