‘This is what voter
remorse looks like’
Donald Trump said he’d lower grocery and consumer prices. But costs continue to rise.
Trump said he’d deport immigrant “murderers and rapists.” But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took hard-working farm workers, landscape crews and restaurant/hotel staff — leaving their employers stranded. ICE took a Venezuelan mother and her two children during a Tucson, Ariz., traffic stop — refusing to accept her ID or take her home to get her other two children.
Trump said he’d “trim” the budget. But his new appointees want to dissolve the Department of Education and cut $880 billion from Medicaid.
Trump said he cared about “free speech.” But he barred the Associated Press from White House briefings and hopes to defund PBS and NPR.
Trump said he cared about workers and the welfare of their families. But he suddenly fired 200,000 people without warning, leaving them with no recourse.
Trump said he would be “working” every day. But he played golf nine times in the first 30 days, costing taxpayers $10.7 million.
Trump said he wanted to keep criminals off our streets. But he released Jan. 6 rioters from jail — despite their violent assaults on 150-plus Capitol police, vandalism, criminal records for spousal abuse, gun and drug charges.
Trump said he supported the military. But he’s proposed cutting $50 billion from the Department of Defense every year over the next five and a 10% cut to the Veteran Administration. (The VA is suing.)
Trump said states should be allowed to run things without federal interference. But he’s ordered states to follow his orders, despite conflicts with their own constitutions.
Trump said he wanted world peace. But he’s antagonized Canada and our European allies, destabilized NATO, threatened China and befriended Russia. The U.S. could end up in a world war.
This is what voter remorse looks like.
Martha Hodges
Kailua Kona
Response to letter
regarding taxes
Shawn Lathrop (letters to the editor, Feb. 13) really needs a lesson in civics to understand the purpose of taxation.
Nothing is free, including all the various services government provides. Where would the money come from if there were no tax revenues?
The problem, which he complains about, is how efficiently the money is being used. Definitely, there is a lot of corruption and wasteful spending. Isn’t this what the present administration is attempting to address?
As for the tea tax, it wasn’t the tax per se that was the issue, but taxation without representation. This was the underlying cause for the American Revolution.
Don Baker
Volcano
