Letters to the Editor category, Page 276
Letter to the editor: Steelers should be sold
After watching the Steelers’ playoff game against Cleveland, I now know for sure what the problem is with the Steelers. Pittsburgh will need 12 first-round draft picks to correct half of the problem. The other half can be corrected by replacing every coach on the team. The best thing that...
Letter to the editor: Trump and the DC terrorists
Here we are. Is this what we want in a democracy? I’m willing to bet that you President Trump supporters are proud of what happened last week. This is nothing less than treason. Where is your coward president? Was he hiding in his bunker watching all of those idiots (terrorists)...
Letter to the editor: Government impeding electric vehicle progress to make money
I welcome letter-writer Doug Waldron’s comments (“Calculating electric car fees,” Dec. 28, TribLIVE) on my letter “Electric car fees? Fair is fair” (Dec. 4, TribLIVE). He points out that based on the average statistics I’m getting a bargain with the proposed annual $175 flat fee for an electric vehicle (EV)...
Letter to the editor: U.S. had a good run
Joe Biden will be installed as our next president Jan. 20. As the saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for — you may get it.” Remember this: Biden and Kamala Harris have expressed support for loosening immigration restrictions, free health care for illegals, Medicare for all (watered down) at...
Letter to the editor: Never forget who legitimized Trump
Last week, my neighbor removed the Trump flag from his Westmoreland County home. It took the death of a police officer, a veteran, three others and more than 50 injured Capitol police. I find it troublesome that some of my representatives continue to support President Trump because they feel safe...
Letter to the editor: Trump has been stoking fires for years
Make no mistake — the insurgency in Washington was not an unexpected, spontaneous incident. President Trump and his Republican supporters have been stoking this for years. Trump has consistently been coddling the vilest elements of society — neo-Nazis, proud punks (or whatever) and similar hate mobs — egging them on...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment won’t calm the nation
I am appalled Congress is further inflaming the current political situation by impeaching the president. This type of action is definitely not what is needed at this point to calm what has been months of increasing polarization and nastiness on the political front. The name-calling, exaggerated grievances and vindictiveness have...
Letter to the editor: George Washington would not have approved of insurrectionists
Trump insurrectionists and Rush Limbaugh are of the opinion that the Founding Fathers would not mind their violent insurrection words and acts. They are wrong. For instance, here are the words of George Washington to Gen. Henry Lee on an ongoing insurrection, written Aug. 26, 1794: “This insurrection is viewed...
Letter to the editor: Reaping what we’ve sowed
Of course no one wants to hear it, and most refuse to believe it, but it was written long before we planted our seeds of despair: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” And what we are reaping is...
Letter to the editor: Texas case not sedition
In his letter “Will Joyce and Reschenthaler need pardons?” (Dec. 30, TribLIVE), Scott Huber commented on local congressmen’s support of the Texas attorney general’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Pennsylvania’s presidential election results. Huber predicted dire consequences if the court granted relief to the appellants. He used...
Letter to the editor: Biden should demand election investigation
President Trump is accused of inciting a riot with his rhetoric about a stolen election. On Jan. 7, President-elect Biden said the incident was the result of Trump’s long record of disdain for the rule of law. What happened Jan. 6 is nothing for our country to be proud of....
Letter to the editor: Why is Pelosi concerned about Trump running in 2024?
I thought it was strange Nancy Pelosi wanted to impeach President Trump when he only had 13 days left in office, but when I heard impeachment could prevent him from running in 2024, it made sense. Another thing that bewildered me was why Pelosi was so concerned Trump would run...
Letter to the editor: Comparing rules for voting, hunting
It’s amazing what you learn as you get up in age. It seems that many years of education were wasted. I thought rules were to be followed by everyone equally, and insuring integrity was important. I guess that is applied to alcohol and tobacco purchases in many places and definitely...
Letter to the editor: Biden voters aren’t going away, either
Let me correct letter- writer Stephen Sokol (“Half the country who voted for Trump not going away,” Dec. 4, TribLIVE) with some facts, something many of President Trump’s supporters can’t seem to deal with. Sokol states, “Half the country, 74 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump” and they’re “not going away.”...
Letter to the editor: Events in DC inevitable
I read the article on the locals who went to President Trump’s “rally” (riot) on Wednesday (“Western Pa. residents share experiences from chaotic day in nation’s capital” (Jan. 7, TribLIVE). The people who traveled to D.C. to see the chaos firsthand were either naive or lying. The torrent of hateful...
Letter to the editor: Trump is exposing corruption
President Trump has poked a hornet’s nest with his so-called conspiracy theories. But he does not have enough strong backers to defeat the people and organizations who have been working since day one to take him down. I believe there are elements working to change our country and values as...
Letter to the editor: We need to get rid of career politicians
I am so sick and tired of politics. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans opposing $2,000 checks handed the Democrats a win in Georgia. Average people need the money! I would be ashamed to be a member of either party. That’s why I am an independent. Career politicians are ruining our...
Letter to the editor: Trump lost because of Trump
President Trump stated that if he lost, it would be because the election was rigged, beginning to sow the seeds of distrust. Following that logic, Democrats who lost also can claim the same. Yet many Republicans won their elections. If it was rigged, it should have been rigged down the...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler should resign
Dear Rep. Guy Reschenthaler: Last week, President Trump incited a crowd — that he had assembled — to advance on the Capitol buildings. Their conduct constituted rebellion against the government you have pledged to support and defend. You called what happened “reckless events,” as if we were enduring high school...
Letter to the editor: Questioning Pens’ CARES loan
I don’t think the media has made a big enough deal about the Penguins borrowing almost $5 million under the CARES Act to help cover expenses. At the same time, co-owner Ron Burkle was buying Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California. Quite obviously, many small businesses are struggling to say...
Letter to the editor: Infectious leftist populism
The center-left populism was exhibited for all to see in burning cities and still the “educated” voters in the Pittsburgh suburbs voted for the clearly addled, seemingly semi-competent Joe Biden, who never renounced the mayors of these kindled Democrat-run cities. That’s the inexorable Exhibit A that shows just how infected...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler, why don’t you resign?
And so my question is for Guy Reschenthaler: What are you doing in Washington, D.C., masquerading as a U.S. congressman from the 14th District of Pennsylvania? Since you and 140 other congressmen and 12 U.S. senators claim the Pennsylvania election was a fraud, you and Joe Biden were on the...
Letter to the editor: Pence reacting to a threat?
Vice President Mike Pence publicly announced his decision not to proceed with President Trump’s plan to recognize objections to the presidential election results by some senators and/or representatives of some states during the formal approval of the vote of the Electoral College by the combined houses of Congress prior to...
Letter to the editor: Trump responsible for DC chaos
The shameful bedlam, anarchy, desecration of our sacred Capitol and rioting that took place in Washington on a modern day of infamy was precisely what one could have expected, and the responsibility for it is to be laid solely and squarely at the feet of Donald Trump: so much for...
Letter to the editor: End chaos, accept results and come together
What has happened to our great country? Regardless of party, we are all Americans living in a democracy, not a dictatorship. We have the privilege to vote for a person we want to run our country. We have all the freedoms given to us by our forefathers. Yet we now...
