Do you see the COVID 19 pandemic as a problem or not? You suggested the presidential election be postponed because of the close proximity of voters waiting in line increases the possibility of exposure to the virus. Yet you don’t see it as a problem when it comes to schools reopening since you are threatening to cut off federal funding to public schools unless they open for in school-classes even though teachers and students will be in close proximity for a lot longer than just one day at the polls.
Why aren’t you releasing your income tax returns like all other modern day presidents have done voluntarily? An innocent person has nothing to hide.
Are we to believe that you really care about National Parks and other conservation/recreational projects by signing into law the legislation allocating almost $3 billion for them, claiming there hasn’t been anything like this since Teddy Roosevelt, while you are pushing for legislation to open up the parks and preserves for more fossil fuel exploration?
Why doesn’t your budget cuts include NASA’s contribution to the $8 billion 10-year project to bring back to Earth samples of Martian rock to analyze for evidence of the life on that planet millions of years ago? Is that such a priority now? You don’t have a problem with cutting into entitlement programs such as welfare since you took such pride in getting so many recipients off simply by raising the eligibility levels and requirements which had nothing to do with them finding employment.
Why have you increased the military budget by $52 billion? We currently have military bases in 70 of the 195 countries in the world costing American tax payers $741 billion. Is there any accounting that this “global policing” is protecting us from the real danger which is now cyber hacking?
What is your proof that mail-in voting is riddled with fraud? Five states use it almost exclusively and have found no such evidence, at least no more so than in-person voting. You oppose mail-in ballots and are attempting to cut the U.S. Postal Service budget to ensure huge numbers ballots aren’t counted which you are convinced will secure your reelection. This is a flagrant abuse of presidential powers. Do you realize that while your Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to you and other Republicans, is slashing the postal budget and limiting service to hamper mail-in votes, some of those ballots might be for you? Also U.S. mail delivers medications, Social Security checks and paychecks.
Have you considered taxing those huge little-or no-taxpaying companies what they should be paying like Amazon and Google, email internet corporations to help out so that U.S.P.S. can continue to deliver what they can’t?
Mary Trump, your niece, states in her book “Too Much and Never Enough” that because of your upbringing, you have a diminished capacity for empathy, curiosity or kindness. Quoting her “a large minority of people still confuse his arrogance for strength, bravado for accomplishment and his superficial interest in them for charisma.” Any comments?
Is any part of your agenda for the next four years based on anything other than what will increase the Gross Domestic Product? Ever consider Gross Domestic Well-Being or Gross Domestic Happiness?
I have many more questions but will stop here. I am however asking your supporters to consider what your possible answers to these might be and consider whether you indeed deserve their vote.
Reenie Grybko Clancy is a resident of Deerfield.