Give President Joe Biden some credit for mid-term election Democratic successes when most everyone, including the media, predicted otherwise.
Instead of focusing on himself, he quietly avoided states where he’s unpopular and helped Democrats win Pennsylvania where he grew up and is still popular. He presented us with our country’s greatest challenge: to save our democracy from autocratic ambitions of the MAGA faction that dominates the Republican party. He inherited a mess and time spent cleaning it up detracted from time for positive accomplishments. Our democratic institutions had been trashed, traditional allies alienated, and tyrants like Vladimir Putin ingratiated.
It’s unclear to what extent, if any, Biden is responsible for inflation.
The previous Republican administration’s inflationary spending had exploded due to huge tax cuts for the rich and corporations that weren’t paid for. In contrast, Democrats funded the Inflation Reduction Act by taxing the rich, and the deficit has been reduced under Biden. Meanwhile, large corporations are profiting like bandits while common people pay for it with rising prices.
Violent crime fell precipitously from 1990 until 2000, more slowly until 2014, then generally rising until 2020. It continued rising during the pandemic spanning both previous and present administrations, until declining the first half of 2022.
All this time we’ve witnessed the increasing proliferation of guns, including high capacity assault rifles, and school mass shooting that Republicans refuse to confront.
Republicans blame Democrats for inflation and crime while admitting no responsibility, and are short on any real solutions.
Norm Luther
Spokane
I was disappointed to learn President Joe Biden’s USDA is giving out more than $223 million in grants and loans to expand the nation’s slaughter capacity.
Instead, the department should have invested these funds into cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without killing.
Propping up traditional animal agriculture is a betrayal of the progressive values Biden campaigned on. cultivated meat requires a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that raising livestock does. Since animals are removed from the process the threat of zoonotic diseases making the jump to humans is greatly reduced.
Finally, widespread adoption of cultivated meat would help usher in a more compassionate age for God’s creatures.
Jon Hochschartner
Granby, Conn.
Dear Adams County
Susie Weis
Your voter turn was dismal to say the least. Now thanks to those who benefit from living in this country but neglected to take the responsibility and vote, we are stuck with a Senator who is a career party politician. Compared to a triage nurse who has fought diligently for veterans. Patty Murray was a preschool volunteer before her rise to power and graduated with a degree in PE. With mail in ballots, you have no excuse. It is not King County that is controlling who represents this state, it is the apathetic voters who are not exercising their right to vote that my father fought for in WWII. Shame on you for disrespecting those who sacrificed for that right!
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