To the editor: How can Republicans sleep at night time? How do they clarify to their kids that they watch because the Trump administration took bread from the mouths of the hungry and drugs from the dying by chopping the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth? (“We may all regret dismantling USAID,” Feb. 22)
And it isn’t simply USAID. Don’t we wish our grandchildren to breathe clear air and be protected from storms fueled by local weather change? Don’t all of us wish to defend our healthcare and schooling programs?
Who voted for Elon Musk to grab our non-public private data and hearth folks? How can we permit an unhinged, heartless bully into the cockpit of our nation when he plans to crash it?
Seizing the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza? Actually?
I’m a grandmother who remembers marching for peace, civil rights and girls’s rights. We cheered with hope when the disgraced President Richard Nixon flew off in that helicopter and the nice guys received.
Resist this insanity earlier than the unhinged, heartless bully shreds our Structure and our future. Hold the religion. Democracy will prevail.
Pleasure Hamlat, Oxnard
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To the editor: America voted for change final November (by a small margin — hardly a mandate), however not at a billionaire’s whim.
Congress ought to determine how we spend our cash, however as a substitute, informal cruelty has changed debate and accountability. Irrespective of who indicators the order or sends the emails, nobody ought to be allowed to vanish an company resembling USAID over a weekend.
At underneath 1% of the federal finances, the extremely expert and devoted USAID staff at residence and overseas has saved lives, prevented wars and helped America’s farmers.
USAID is just not the issue. However Trump and his billionaire advisers have to search out scapegoats to cover their self-serving priorities. It’s not about waste. It’s about how they’ll get extra money and energy. They don’t care about the remainder of us.
Congress should defend USAID and the way in which we make choices. Resist the billionaires. Reject appeasement each step of the way in which.
Mary Malhotra, La Cañada Flintridge
