Trump and Musk work to reduce gov’t power
Regarding “Greed, power driving today’s America” (Feb. 9): To the letter writer despairing about the “current regime,” how are greed and power driving things today when Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working for free to reduce the government’s power? This is the opposite of a greed and power move.
When I hear “greed and power,” I think of career politicians becoming wealthy due to their “public service” and fighting hard to expand government power.
DANA R. HERMANSON, MARIETTA
Trump’s policies have far-reaching consequences
Trump and his sidekick, Elon (or is that the other way around), have, among other things, disabled USAID.
Meanwhile, malnourished children in undeveloped countries will die because lifesaving nourishment will not reach them. Vaccines will spoil for lack of refrigeration or fail to reach vulnerable children who will die from measles and other preventable diseases. Trump has thwarted the schemes of legions of transgender women who thought they could letter in swimming and access the ladies’ room simply by undergoing sex change surgery.
He abolished DEI in favor of a merit-based society. There’s some cruel irony there since women, people of color, the handicapped and LGBs (Trump did away with the “T”; why not erase the most vulnerable among us while you’re on a roll) have long been excluded, no matter how much merit they possessed. Have these diverse groups (read everyone except straight white men) ever been treated equitably? Will they ever be?
Fun fact: Black athletes could not receive scholarships to UGA until 1971, presumably because they lacked merit.
MARTIN HUDDLESTON, DECATUR
Get ready for trickle-down economic damage
I am concerned that Gov. Brian Kemp is promising to send “surplus” revenue to taxpayers. Perhaps instead, our state should save those funds for a rainy day because the forecast is foreboding.
On the horizon is the trickle-down damage on the way from Washington, D.C., as the new president and his unchecked, nonemployee henchmen chaotically disassemble federal programs and agencies and suddenly put many thousands of federal workers and contractors out of work.
The subsequent flood headed toward Georgia might well be catastrophic. So, instead of inducing potential Senate race voters with cash, we should be ready to deploy those funds to replace lost emergency and disaster aid, farm subsidies, wages, health care and benefits.
The damage done by Trump and Musk’s reckless coup is going to swamp our state long before Kemp needs to count votes in a coming Senate race.
DREW PLANT, ATLANTA
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