Letters to the Editor category, Page 38
Letter to the editor: When did decorum disappear?
In 1964 if you sat at the family dinner table with a ball cap on, you were told to remove it. In 2004 Howard Dean on the campaign trail yelled “YEAH!” and that one action doomed his presidential campaign. Today we have a president who constantly wears a baseball hat...
Letter to the editor: Bravo to Pine-Richland performers, staff
I recently attended a performance of Pine-Richland High School’s musical “42nd Street.” What an enjoyable evening. Professionals couldn’t have staged a better show. The set decorations and scenery rivaled what you see in major cultural sites. The cast was no less amazing. Vocals and dance routines were top notch, especially...
Letter to the editor: This Land is MAGA Land
MAGA Land: This once was your land But now it’s MAGA land From Panama’s canal To the Greenland island From Canadian forests To a strip called Gaza Your land, it now belongs to me. This song, thankfully, has yet to be written. But it’s easy to imagine that MAGA songwriters...
Letter to the editor: Trump is getting results
Despite his occasional off-putting communication style, President Donald Trump’s actions are proving the adults are now in the federal government room. He has almost totally secured the southern and northern borders against the flow of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl, a complete reversal of what people saw on TV as...
Letter to the editor: I voted for Trump — why would they come for me?
First they came for the immigrants and DEI, and I did not speak out — because I was not a minority. Then they came for government workers, the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Service, and I did not speak out — because I did not work...
Letter to the editor: Fixing Biden’s mess will cost money
The American people spoke in November. They want something done to solve the illegal immigration problem. President Trump is trying, but it will take time and lots of money. In my opinion, we have President Biden to thank for the situation. Trump needs to finish the southern border wall. Biden...
Letter to the editor: National debt our biggest problem
What’s left but to fire people and rip the government apart? I’m laughing because the biggest problem is our national debt. It’s $36 trillion and trillions in interest paid per year. President Trump talked, all talk, about a flat tax. I had hope, but it probably won’t happen. Declare corruption,...
Letter to the editor: We must stand with Ukraine
Last week, Pittsburghers gathered downtown for a We Stand with Ukraine demonstration, making clear that our city refuses to abandon Ukraine in its fight for survival. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance mock President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, block critical military aid and treat Vladimir Putin’s war as a...
Letter to the editor: Why no lawsuits for laid-off Volkswagen workers?
When Volkswagen of America laid off all its employees and moved its plant from New Stanton to Mexico, I don’t remember any lawsuits being filed for us to keep our jobs. Evidently our government employees are more important. Tim Scheeren Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Musk does have security clearance
The writer of the letter “Speak up to stop Musk’s coup” (Feb. 15, TribLive) claims Elon Musk is a billionaire with no security clearance. That is false. Musk holds a top secret security clearance for his work with SpaceX. It is time to think with your head instead of your...
Letter to the editor: No one elected Fauci, either
2020 was the year that the world changed. A pandemic spread across this country and over a million people died. I mention that because in the middle of it, Dr. Anthony Fauci took over the handling of it. He was unelected but with the help of the Centers for Disease...
Letter to the editor: Saving horses from slaughter
I was shocked and horrified to learn that for decades, our nation’s horses have been shuttled into the horse slaughter pipelines, delivered to Canada and Mexico and killed for food. I am so grateful to Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeleine Dean for sponsoring the Save America’s Forgotten...
Letter to the editor: How can people not be alarmed by Musk’s actions?
People say I’m an alarmist. How can anyone not be alarmed by the takeover of our government by an unconfirmed, unvetted, unelected South African billionaire taking it upon himself to tell the American people what we need and don’t need? In his personal opinion, we don’t need the National Institutes...
Letter to the editor: Disruption strategy has many risks
In response to letters to Pennsylvania’s Republican senator about cabinet nominees, I received the following: “President Trump has nominated a team of disrupters to deliver on his promise of change.” Sen. Dave McCormick was a Connecticut-based venture capitalist before running for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat. Venture capitalism’s guiding principle is...
Letter to the editor: What about pro-life funding, Gov. Shapiro?
Gov. Josh Shapiro is up in arms about federal funding he was counting on being withheld from Pennsylvania agencies. He didn’t seem to have any trouble canceling funding to pro-life counseling centers throughout the state. Psalm 22:28: For the kingdom is the Lord’s and he is governor among the nations....
Letter to the editor: When will voters opt for change in Pittsburgh?
Watching the latest episode of the city government failing yet again, this time involving the sudden departure of the acting police chief (“Leadership vacuum: Ragland withdraws as Pittsburgh police chief candidate plans to retire,” March 4, TribLive), eerily reminds me of watching a high school-themed comedy from the 1980s: the...
Letter to the editor: Who elected Musk president?
Elon Musk invested approximately $250 million in Donald Trump’s campaign, and now it seems he is the de facto U.S. president. Who needs free and fair elections if money buys you a position that you can’t aspire to because you don’t meet the qualifications? It appears Musk is calling the...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s tyranny like past purges
President Trump’s tyrannical purge in government, media, education, military, intelligence, etc., is no different than any past authoritarian purge. The subterfuge that people are being removed for incompetence or fraud is the fraud. The goal more likely is to eliminate dissent and challenges to the regime. Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red...
Letter to the editor: Christians had reasons to vote for Trump
The writer of the letter “Christians and Trump” (Feb. 27, TribLive) displayed typical Democrat judgments of Christians. But what is a Christian? John 3:16: No one can earn their way to heaven. Romans 3:23: “We are all sinners and fall short of the grace of God.” Jesus did it all...
Letter to the editor: Ukraine’s rare minerals
Wake up people! It’s not President Trump who wants Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, it’s Vladimir Putin. Think about it. Craig Smith Irwin...
Letter to the editor: Fetterman ought to turn Republican
Yo, Sen. John Fetterman, what are you trying to prove? How broad-minded you are? I once heard that an open mind is an empty mind. Why don’t you move into your boy’s basement in Key Largo or wherever he slithers about? You realize, of course, your goose is cooked in...
Letter to the editor: Grateful to Shapiro for aiding fired workers
Leave it to our honorable governor to enact yet another innovative solution to help people. That is what Gov. Josh Shapiro has done in seeking to make it easier to hire federal workers who have found themselves innocent pawns in the Trump/Musk rampage of firings. While Office of Management and...
Letter to the editor: No kings in America
Our country got its start by rebelling against a king. It was based on a Constitution complete with a Bill of Rights. Our government included a system of checks and balances with three different branches to ensure that no one person (or aristocracy) could have absolute power and control over...
Letter to the editor: End of democracy?
Call me crazy, but I have a strong gut feeling that America’s democracy is coming to its end under the current administration and our spineless Congress. That our president has allowed the nonelected richest man on the planet to be his hatchet man and surrounded himself with people I consider...
Letter to the editor: Let’s get back to respecting others
Respect, such a small word, but such a big meaning in itself. Some people don’t respect authority. You see it in everyday life. You see it on the news, people not respecting the police, teachers, clergy, parents, elected officials, in sporting events and to say the least disrespecting human life....
