Letters: The place had been enterprise leaders earlier than vote?

Trump taking guardrailsoff your complete nation

Re: “Trump will drive nation into ditch” (Web page A6, Dec. 18).

A author says that the president-elect is ‘’undermining institutional effectiveness and credibility” and worries he’ll ‘’drive the nation right into a ditch.” It’s a lot worse than that.

Donald Trump and his bootlickers are spreading lies and chaos all through the world. Insulting our allies and fomenting hate amongst factions at house and overseas is his shtick. He’ll torpedo any science-driven assist for the atmosphere and speed up the desecration of our pure habitat, all for cash.

So, goodbye to safeguards: Trade will now be free to extend dumping poison into our air, water and soil. What may very well be the hurt of that? And, talking of illness, I can hardly wait to see how they mismanage the following pandemic: get your syringe, bleach and UV gentle prepared. Perhaps we’ll get fortunate and it’ll simply “go away.” Then we will give attention to polio, quickly to re-emerge on the heels of withholding vaccines.

Marilynn Grey-RaineDanville

Wooden smoke threatensthe Bay Space’s well being

Do you know that wooden smoke is the biggest supply of air air pollution within the Bay Space throughout the winter? Some residents could also be inclined to fireplace up their woodburning stoves or fireplaces across the holidays. Sadly, burning wooden may be dangerous to ourselves and our family members.

The fantastic particles in wooden smoke are so tiny that they’ll transfer past the lungs and into the bloodstream, which might result in bronchial asthma assaults and coronary heart assaults. Folks with lung illness, coronary heart illness, in addition to youngsters and older adults, face greater dangers from this smoke.

To enhance the air high quality in your house this winter, the Bay Space Air High quality Administration District’s Clear HEET program helps cut back the price of switching from a wood-burning range or hearth insert to an electrical warmth pump. Yow will discover extra info on methods to defend your lungs at lung.org.

David PepperOakland

The place had been businessleaders earlier than vote?

Re: “Tech makes an economic case for immigrants” (Web page C9, Dec. 23).

Now “Tech makes an economic case for immigrants.” Current experiences point out that agribusiness is lobbying to permit immigrant labor on farms, too. The garment and hospitality industries additionally search exemptions. Enterprise leaders in all places agree that the Republican crackdown on immigrant staff, together with excessive tariffs on imports, will increase client costs considerably and spike inflation.

I perceive their level. That’s the reason this Republican voted for Democrats up and down the poll in November. Donald Trump promised to deport 11 million immigrants, slap heavy tariffs (taxes) on client items and turn into dictator on his first day in workplace. Why did so many of those moguls help Trump, towards America’s pursuits, and wait till now to make their case?

Please ask the company elite to elucidate why so few of them had the integrity to defend migrant staff and clarify tariffs’ influence on inflation — earlier than the election. Taxpayer subsidies, maybe?

Chris ConradEl Sobrante

Trump schooling pickmotivated by revenue

Re: “Trump’s education pick shows he understands assignment” (Web page A6, Dec. 19).

Erika Donalds lauds Donald Trump’s choice of Linda McMahon to be our subsequent schooling secretary. Donalds’ doesn’t disguise the contempt she has for public schooling when she helps somebody whose foremost qualification appears to be her function as an proprietor of World Wrestling Leisure.

The ultimate phrases in her opinion piece inform all of it – the aim is for the Training Division to “turn off the lights.”

As with most of Trump’s picks, the aim is to close down the operate for which these departments have been arrange, from defending the environment to defending civil and labor rights, and, with McMahon, to destroy public schooling and substitute it with a profit-making constitution, non secular and personal system which might make billionaires like McMahon even wealthier.

David WeintraubOakland

Purdy’s cash couldhave been higher spent

Re: “Purdy spreads the holiday cheer, gets SUVs for his O-line” (Web page C3, Dec. 21).

Extra nonsensical than their pay.

Why would you give 10 gamers who earn more money per yr than most of us will make in our lifetime presents that complete greater than $500,000?

I perceive that he’s very grateful and that he needs to indicate them that, however wouldn’t that type of cash be so a lot better spent on these lives within the Bay Space, or anyplace for that matter, which might be in dire conditions, particularly at the moment of the yr? Wouldn’t a tearful hug and a smack on the butt at a fantastic restaurant someplace present simply as a lot feeling?

There may be a lot foolish cash there {that a} $50,000-plus automobile as a thank-you present is just not thought of excessive. Simply suppose what that type of cash dropped into the purple basket of a meals financial institution might present.

Mark HertsteinPittsburg

Protecting Diablo Canyonopen isn’t definitely worth the threat

Re: “Nuclear plant stays open; bills to rise” (Web page B1, Dec. 23).

The rationale for decommissioning the Diablo Canyon nuclear energy plant is extra pressing than rising electrical energy charges.

The growing older advanced is surrounded by 4 energetic earthquake faults with the potential to provide quakes and tsunamis better than the plant is designed to resist. A Fukushima-scale disaster is within the playing cards for San Luis Obispo as long as Diablo Canyon stays in operation.

Mat BergmanRichmond