Debate showed tipped scale
The PBS, CNN democratic presidential debate, CNN ran anti-Medicare For All ads full of lies about single-payer Medicare For All that was full of for-profit healthcare and drug industry talking points.
There was no disclosure on who’s ads they were, paid by $3.4 billions reportedly spent by for-profit medical industry and pharmaceutical industries annually paid to major media CNN, MSNBC, FOX and affiliates.
PBS, CNN, MSNBC, engaged in a Bernie Blackout. Most others candidates were interviewed after the debate. This is the corruption in politics influenced by corporate money in media and government.
Leslie Iijima
Waikoloa
Trump only president to try taking on tyrants
Thank you, West Hawaii Today, every once in a while you publish a conservative opinion and I am gratified to see at least an attempt on your part to give equal representation as in the Victor Davis Hanson opinion. That being said, it is difficult reading columns from Paul Krugman with the New York Times, as this person is the most ignorant economist known to man and he has been consistently wrong on every issue he writes about.
Ever since Nixon opened up China to the United States and the rest of the world, the world stood by and did nothing to corral China until the Trump presidency. This is not like rebuilding Japan and Germany after World War II. We and the rest of the world will never be able to put this genie back in the bottle, but containment and damage control is going to be ongoing for the next 100 years.
Give Trump credit for trying with a house full of haters (pun intended) to do something even if it is to open up people’s eyes to the real threat to this country! Russia is not an economic threat and also will never use its nuclear arsenal any more than we will, so please wake up all you liberal Trump haters and get on board fast because our way of life is being threatened daily, and not by Russia!
Look at all the evidence of the pollution coming from China. The great Pacific garbage patch twice the size of Texas! Look at all the single-use cheap garbage we buy from them making them rich while we toss that garbage in our landfills and attempt sending recyclables back to them so they can make and send more cheap garbage back to us. Nice program for them but we are drowning in debt and garbage, so how about a little support and a little less armchair quarterbacking?
Trump is the the first president in over 30 years to even try and stand up to China along with North Korea so to be this disingenuous is ludicrous to anyone with a brain not steeped in “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Bob Johnson
Kailua-Kona