America: Never Better, Empowering Women: PD Letters

America: Never better

EDITOR: America has never been better. Do you want to chop wood to burn, cook and keep warm, rely on animals for transportation, candles so you can see when it is dark, do you want to live in a log cabin with dirt floors?

Wake up, take a look around at what we have now. We eat fresh food grown 1,000 miles away, electricity, electric cars that don’t pollute, computers with spell checkers and printers that type, ovens, air conditioners, planes and trains that move us miles in minutes, swimming pools, golf courses, television, hospitals , 40 hour work weeks, some staying home and working, public schools and Social Security, plus Obamacare, thanks to the Democrats. We live better now than kings did years ago. Help us stop pollution so we don’t lose what we have now.

As far as inflation is concerned, it doesn’t matter which political party wins the elections, because inflation is here to stay. When inflation is 2%, it means that it is 2% more than last year. It does not mean that prices have fallen. will become lower.

LEONARD RIEPENHOFF

Santa Rosa

Libraries help children

EDITORIAL: I hope people will support the continued funding of the Sonoma County Public Library system. As a retired reading specialist, I can say that research shows that children’s reading improves when they have access to libraries. Unfortunately, schools have had to cut back on their libraries, often hiring non-librarians to oversee their collections. But having a vital provincial library system, especially all the ways in which the libraries are more accessible, helps counter this unfortunate trend in the schools. Support Size W.

MOLLY BISHOP

Monte Rio

Empowering women

EDITOR: There have been 46 presidents. They have all been men. Some were better than others, but overall not a stellar record. Kamala Harris running for president, as she is only the second woman to do so, is an alternative. And it is historic.

In the US we have a history of the Equal Rights Amendment and the women’s movement. Internationally, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris marked the first time that there were as many women’s events as men’s events. Women have come a long way in proving that positions of power are not just reserved for men.

We are now at a crucial turning point in our history, because the continuation or demise of this trend is what is at stake in this election. Many members of a political party want to limit women’s rights, and they are led by a man whose history with women is well known.

As Michelle Obama recently explained, voting for a woman to lead our country benefits men. It gives men and women equal rights. When men vote for a party and candidate that women want to respect and not control, both have power and Americans will make history on Election Day.

JEFFREY KAHN

Sevastopol

Sonoma County’s Legacy

EDITORIAL: Carol Mitchell’s letter (‘Let’s keep the cows’ Wednesday) brought back many memories. When my family vacationed at Disneyland in the 1950s, the highlight of the trip for my father was visiting the dairies at 5 a.m. before Disneyland opened. Dad was a dairy farmer from Santa Rosa and cared more about cows than himself. His care for cows has been passed on to my children and grandchildren, and it is my wish that they may continue to follow in his footsteps. Please vote no Size J – Sonoma County’s legacy depends on it.

REGINA AGGIO

Sevastopol

Trump’s policies

EDITOR: Word has it that you may not like Donald Trump, but you do like his policies. Can someone please tell me what that policy is? He never really tells us except for tax breaks for himself and his rich friends, and that he will get revenge on those he hates.

Kamala Harris’ policies are known because she talks about them. She will cut taxes for those making less than $400,000 and reinstate Roe v. Wade. She will continue the policies that have produced a strong economy with a great job market, lower gasoline and grocery prices, huge stock market gains, etc. She will continue to lower drug and drug prices. She will help first-time homebuyers with a $25,000 down payment, help small businesses get started with a $50,000 tax credit, and there’s more.

What will Trump do to help anyone? He appears to have no plans beyond deporting immigrants and imposing high tariffs on imported goods, driving up costs for consumers. Please tell me if you find out and put it on the front page.

BARRY TAYLOR

Santa Rosa

Terror, not hate

EDITOR: I wish people who try to defend Donald Trump would stop saying his critics are just haters (“Recommendations in the newspaper,” Letters, Friday). This willfully ignores countless recordings, testimonies and public statements documenting his dangerous unfitness for the highest office. He is intolerant, capricious and vindictive. He has no humility, no empathy. He doesn’t want to take advice from someone with more experience, but he is open to hearing what he wants to hear. He is easily seduced by flattery and sucks for dictators.

I don’t feel any hatred. I’m terrified.

NADENIA NEWKIRK

Santa Rosa

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