Let’s make child care affordable for Georgia parents
Rather than babbling on about transgender bathroom rules, Georgia legislators should get down off their culture war soapboxes and increase funding for child care.
Making child care more affordable would relieve a crushing burden on working parents and improve the quality of life for families. It would also raise GDP by freeing parents up to take jobs.
Substance, just for once, please. I know that’s not what the ruling party generally does, but make an exception.
DEAN POIRIER, LILBURN
Real ways lawmakers can make life better for kids
I was happy to find in the Jan. 16 AJC article “Georgians agree there’s transgender discrimination, yet favor restrictions” this statement: “Republicans have been unable to identify any transgender children competing in sports in Georgia.”
This reminds us that our Republican representatives have spent hours and hours worrying about something that plays to “their audience” — if there is real concern about safety for children in Georgia, they would be defining the new housing statements making rentals “habitable for humans.”
Real concern about safety would cause them to examine red flag gun laws in other states. Real concern about children would require figuring out why so many schools are rated as “poor” and creating schools with the windfall of money the state seems to have. Real concern about children would cause them to carefully look at how hard it was for families to get back on Medicaid once their kids were put off.
Thank you, Republican legislators, for working hard on swim team safety. Now, start doing something real to make life better for our children in Georgia. We are waiting to see what you come up with. I’m not sure sports betting is it.
DEBBIE GATHMANN, CLARKSTON
Keep flags low in honor of Carter
I am appalled that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has caved to the vanity of a petty tyrant and has agreed to dishonor the memory of former Georgia Gov. and President Jimmy Carter by raising the flags at the U.S. Capitol to full staff on Monday, in contradiction of U.S. Code Title 4, Chapter 4, Paragraph 7(m), which calls for flags at half-staff for 30 days following the death of a president of the United States.
I call on the entire Georgia delegation to sponsor a resolution demanding that the flag fly at half-staff for the full 30 days to honor our native son. Once sworn in, the new president can still claim the flags were at full staff and the crowd was the biggest ever.
ROBERT ABRAHAM, MARIETTA
Nation divided by religious right vs. progressives
Mike Luckovich’s recent cartoon about the Gulf of America was somewhat naive. The division in America today is not caused by those who are informed and those who are not. It is mostly caused by a brand of white Christian nationalism that despises what progressives stand for.
For more than five decades, men like Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (some of the better-known ones) have alarmed their congregations with lies and propaganda to suit their agenda. The white Christian nationalist religious right is full of misogyny, racism, hatred of the LGBTQ community and xenophobia. They have called on their men to be muscular and masculine “warriors” for Christ using violence and lies. These people are not uninformed. They are delusional zealots who are dangerous to our democracy. Let’s hope that sanity will prevail, and we don’t end up with a Christian Taliban.
MICHAEL DE GIVE, DECATUR
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