Letters to the editor Dec. 2

Out of control

This administration is out of control and our legislators don’t have the courage to speak up for the people they represent instead of remaining silent about an administration that has gone off the rails.

People are losing food subsidies and formally affordable health care is vanishing for millions of people. Meanwhile the president is throwing lavish parties while Americans are seriously hurting. The Big “Beautiful” Bill this administration gleefully passed gave the richest people and corporations tax cuts of $3.7 trillion, while the less fortunate were given cuts to health care and food programs to the tune of $1.3 trillion. (As stated by the non-partisan Tax Foundation and the Congressional Budget Office.)

ICE’s criminal behavior is stunning. Attacking American citizens and legal immigrants. One man is now in intensive care because of the reported ICE attack on him. The horrors that are being committed every day by these armed, masked thugs is out of the Third Reich. The vast majority of people attacked by ICE are innocent citizens.  

Dozens of fishermen are dead because their boats were blown up in waters near Venezuela. No due process and without any evidence that these men were anything but fishermen. The U.S. has non-lethal technology to disable boat motors to stop suspicious vessels without causing harm to the occupants. But instead of using this non-lethal option, this administration wants to indiscriminately kill people and claim, without a shred of proof, that these are drug boats.

The corruption and cruelty demonstrated by this administration has no bounds.

— Barbara Palmer, Kalispell