March 21 Letters: Our Readers’ Opinions

Downright lies

President Joe Biden started off his State of the Union speech by claiming there was a threat to democracy both home and abroad. He claimed it was the Republicans and his predecessor, but is it?

The press since 2015 have told 32 untruths about Donald Trump, according to CBS, while covering for President Biden a minimum of eight times in the last three years. That was before his speech’s stretching of the truth and downright lies. If you need to lie about a political candidate, what are you trying to do other than subvert democracy?

President Biden urged Congress to pass the legislation from the Senate to tighten the border, and I guess it would only allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day into our country but making it so the next president could not close them. He never mentioned the additional 320,000 people his administration has flown directly from Central America to 43 United States cities because they would not have been permitted into this country any other way. Why? And why isn’t the press questioning this?

He claims another Trump presidency would be the end of NATO, but during Trump’s presidency, NATO was strengthened, Russia behaved, Iran was broke, China’s economy suffered and Americans prospered, gaining an average of $5,000 in wealth per year with the poorest Americans gaining the most.

How could any real patriotic American vote for Trump again? I think having a Chinese national on California’s election committee is a far greater risk to democracy.

Dan Long

Clarkston

None of their business

Idaho Sen. Chuck Winder (and other Republicans) blame a lack of service workers on abortion. This gives me the vibe of a pre-Civil War slave-breeding program where government masters breed citizens for servants.

It also looks like Idaho’s government breaking its human-trafficking laws (Idaho statute 18-8602). This compels Idaho taxpayers (myself included) to financially support the illegal and immoral activity of state-run child trafficking.

A government managing childbirth is a government engaged in child trafficking. I’m old enough to remember the oppression of the China Communist Party’s childbirth management program. The finger now points home and, a different spade still being a spade, Idaho is managing childbirth and running a state-run child trafficking operation.

Insisting the government expand to engage in child trafficking is not a high moral ground for religious folks and institutions. Personal religious beliefs do not necessarily make good public policy, especially when it results in child trafficking. The good news is that it’s not hard to stop being a child trafficker: quit worrying about uterine contents. Pretend, if you must, that it’s none of your business.

Janet Marugg

Clarkston