Letters to the editor Dec. 9
Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 2 weeks AGO
Health care costs
It’s easy for our congressional delegation to be so blase’ about the pain being inflicted on many Montanans by the rising health insurance premiums caused by the Republican repeal of the health insurance subsidies.
After all, we, the taxpayers, pay for their health care because they “serve” us so well by being our “representatives.”
Remember their lack of concern next November.
— Ron Wick, Kalispell
Moral judgment
Histories of the second Trump administration will begin to appear by 2030.
As with all presidents, historians will evaluate the grand achievements and failures of the administration. But like most histories of our past presidents, small but important decisions that, at the time, enlisted moral judgments by citizens will likely be missing, pushed aside for presenting the “big picture.” But morality has a place in history.
Of course, observes today will disagree on what is moral and what is not. To date, there are a number of actions by the Trump administration that should be judged not on a party basis but on a moral basis.
We need to ask ourselves if it was morally right or wrong to: intercept a 19-year old coed at an airport en route to visit her parents (who brought her to America when she was 7 years old) and dispatch her to Honduras; to fire career FBI agents who were assigned at the time to investigate Trump’s classified documents stored at Mar-a- Lago and those agents assigned to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on our Capitol; to pardon those who were convicted of violently attacking police on Jan. 6; to fire the first female admiral in American history without due cause; to pass a tax bill that will keep taxes low for the more affluent Americans and deprive millions of poorer Americans of health care; and recently, to kill two men clinging to a boat in the Caribbean.
These actions require moral judgments. While historians will likely not include these events in their analysis of the Trump administration, it is important that we today make our own personal moral judgments.
— Jim Swab, Kalispell