Letters to the Editor: Taking issue with conservative columnist. Revisiting 2020 election.
Column misleading
Letter writers keep complaining about all the liberal columnists carried in the Herald-Leader’s Opinion section. I must be receiving an incorrect copy because I keep reading articles by conservatives like Kathleen Parker, Hugh Hewitt, and a recent column by Jay Ambrose. I need to take exception with the major thrust of his opposition to the Build Back Better Act, which is the cost of $3.5 trillion over 10 years (President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell ran up $7.8 trillion in just four years with their tax cuts for the wealthy). Ambrose claims this cost will be $27,000 per household. The fallacy with this is that the plan will be paid for only by individuals making over $400,000 per year and collecting minimum taxes on major corporations that are currently paying nothing in federal taxes.
Howard Stovall, Lexington
Election question
The 2020 presidential election, according to mostly Republicans, was stolen from then President Donald Trump. Allegedly, Democrat operatives reprogrammed U.S. voting machines to switch millions of Trump votes to Joe Biden, hence Biden won. Yet for some mysterious reason the election thieves neglected (or forgot) to also switch enough Senate votes to win the Senate by a filibuster proof majority, which would mean Biden wouldn’t need any Republican votes to pass his programs.
On those same presidential ballots were our votes for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. So that begs the question: Having “fixed” the presidential election, why wouldn’t they also have “fixed” the Senate, too?
But the Democrats apparently were so inept that they forgot to ask whoever they hired to steal the election for Biden to also steal a 60-vote majority in the Senate. I wonder if that is what election deniers essentially believe happened — the Democrat geniuses who fixed a presidential election in such a way that no one has been able to prove it in any court of law, at the same time forgot about needing the Senate.
Edward Ray Wolfe, Bowling Green
Word play
l keep reading and hearing that “activist” conservative Supreme Court judges are destroying the Constitution. I am 63 and the only “activist” judges I have seen are the liberal judges who made up a constitutional right to abortion and want to take away our plainly stated rights under the Second Amendment. I also have owned guns since I was 8 years old and none of them have ever committed an “act of gun violence”. A gun is an inanimate object and cannot perform any “acts’‘. Do we call it “automobile violence’ when a drunk driver kills someone? Many if not most of the groups fighting to preserve the Constitution have fallen for the liberal twisting of the meaning of words. Liberals are also attacking the First Amendment under the guise of “wokeness”.
William Riffe, Lancaster
Support for dementia
There are many unique challenges and needs when caring for a loved one with dementia. As a progressive disease, the caregiving journey often feels like you’re putting out fires and reacting rather than being able to plan for the best way to care for a loved one. As a former caregiver for my father who had frontotemporal dementia, I understand how complicated it is to navigate healthcare and support services.
Our family was shuffled from one specialist to the next just trying to receive a diagnosis. Living in a rural community, we were unaware of available services. My father’s quality of life would have been so much better if we had not spent so much time trying to find support for the unique needs of a dementia patient. We felt very much alone and unsupported by the healthcare system.
The Alzheimer’s Association has introduced two measures that can better support caregivers and families. First, the Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer’s Act would streamline healthcare options for those living with dementia and their caregivers, reducing costs and improving the quality and delivery of care. Second, the Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Act would provide grants to expand training and support services to offer much-needed relief to the more than 11 million dementia caregivers across the nation.
I’m calling on my congressional representatives to support this legislation. Please join me.
Caitlin Dunworth, Richmond