Letters to the editor

In praise of service dogs

Thank you for your Sept. 24 editorial on service dogs. When I was in high school in the 1960s, I attended a concert by the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Sitting next to me was a blind man in his 40s with his guide dog. In my youthful ignorance I petted the dog, who very properly ignored me completely. Years later I realized that I had probably distracted the service dog of an Iwo Jima survivor. I have felt shame about my action ever since and I hope to atone now by expressing my support for the proposed service dog legislation.

— Bill Kuttner, Charlestown

Tax change fallout

So if ElizabethWarren is the next president, the first thing she promises to do is change the tax brackets and individuals making over $2 million will probably have a tax bracket over 50%. Well guess what happens next, corporations will somehow be based out of the U.S. and the U.S. economy will nosedive and you can kiss your 401(k) and IRA goodbye. It’s not socialism but a close second with Warren in charge. Also Warren as Commander in Chief of the military, there’s too many jokes with that thought. No matter how bad some people think of Trump, Warren as president is right out of a Dilbert cartoon

— Tony Meschini, Scituate

Biden’s blunders

Joe Biden’s decades-long career is littered with more mistakes than Elizabeth Warren pledges to raise taxes. Bidenites quaintly describe the erstwhile senator and vice president’s many gaffes as endearing. Well, sir, the 1988 plagiarism of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in order to burnish Biden’s flagging effort to garner that year’s Democratic presidential nomination was decidedly not endearing, nor to my mind is his serial disregard for facts. Would anyone claim that President Trump’s fact-challenged statements are equally endearing? And what about former secretary of defense and CIA director Robert Gates’s statement in his memoir that Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades”.

— Paul Bloustein, Cincinnati, Ohio

Trump delivers

In 1979, carrying into the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan in the early ’80s, there was an oil/gas crisis. I can remember the long lines and frustration at gas stations throughout the country. We were at the mercy of OPEC. Both sides of Congress cried, “Never again” and promised the American people that we were going to achieve energy independence. Nothing, to very little, happened.

Yet in the first two years of his presidency, Trump, as promised, truly achieved energy independence for our country. For the middle class, gasoline prices are a major factor and an indicator as to not only how our economy is doing, but how our country is being managed. During the recent bombings of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing facilities, the United States is able to sustain ourselves with oil and energy supplies due to the leadership of President Trump.

— Al DiLascia, Chicopee

Unsteady platform

Can anyone image a more un-American platform than most of the candidates running for president support ?

Rewarding people for making bad decision by forgiving debt they willing signed up for.

Punishing people who worked hard to be successful by taxing them to pay someone else’s bills.

Taking away people’s health insurance choices by providing a one-size-fits-all solution and if you don’t like it there is nowhere to go as private insurers are gone.

Paying welfare and medical benefits to illegal immigrants.

This is best we can do for candidates who promise you freebies and push our country further into debt.

— Paul Quaglia, Billerica

 

 

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