U.S. needs to re-examine priorities
Once again, Congress has allocated billions upon billions more to our already obscenely bloated “defense” budget, for fighting a pointless and apparently unwinnable war abroad. While our infrastructure is crumbling; while poor children are cruelly lunch-shamed because their parents are behind in payment; while veterans sleep in cardboard boxes, our so-called representatives in Washington continue catering to defense contractor fat cats. The United States spends more on its military than China, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, India, the United Kingdom and Japan combined. Even if our defense budget was cut in half, we would still be the No. 1 military spender in the world.
What kind of country regards the poor as parasites and social programs as optional, while beefing up its already grossly over-beefed military budget? Not a country that has any business calling itself “great.”
F. HARRIS, ATLANTA
Dems don’t know what to do about Trump
Donald Trump works with Democrats on the budget. Pelosi and Schumer even said that Trump did the right thing, and you know they had to be biting their tongues to say something good about Tump. This is their worst nightmare; Donald Trump is becoming one of them, a “politician.”
Trump is used to barking out orders to his employees because he is their boss. But now he is actully working with the Democrats, and they don’t know what to do. Trump is learning the ways around Washington. He threw DACA back into Congress since they would never work with him him on anything. Now they are responsable for immigration reforms. He has turned the tables on them, and they hate it.
Trump is doing everything right, from storm relief to immigration. He has turned the ecomomy around in eight months, created millions of jobs and got people working again.
JIM CORDER, ACWORTH
