U.S. President Donald Trump will wreak havoc on trade and Premier Scott Moe has played politics with transgender issues, say readers.
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Orville Myrvang’s Nov. 26 letter to the editor entitled “Academics out to lunch on President Donald Trump” demands a response. This letter is a compilation of unfounded opinions and lacks objective facts.
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Post U.S. election statistics show the majority of Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris’s supporters “read the news,” while the majority of Trump supporters “do not read the news.” They are too immersed in nonsensical conspiracy theories to bother with objective facts.
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The list of senior cabinet officials Trump is attempting to install is a clown car of Trump loyalists who are disturbingly unqualified with zero relevant experience or expertise.
A disturbing number of them have a history of serious sexual allegations. For example, vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s main claim to fame is the death of hundreds of Samoan children after he convinced then president of Samoa not to vaccinate children for measles.
The list of incompetents goes on.
Unfortunately, Trump’s agenda is driven by personal grievances — not rational policies. His plans to slap huge tariffs on virtually all U.S. trading partners has been demonstrated by all reputable economists as a sure-fire way to wreck the global economy.
Not even Saskatchewan would escape unscathed. Even Premier Moe is quoted in the Leader-Post saying that Trumps tariffs would be “disastrous” for our province. It is high time that more people, especially Trump fanatics, start reading the news.
Robert Welte, Regina
Affordability more important than decorum
Urgent affordability and population explosion related health and education issues render Murray Mandryk’s comments on legislature “decorum” a continued time wastage. Undoubtedly, experience taught that neither professed loyalty nor enhanced pay will keep dishonourable colleagues quiet.
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I also believe the “urban-rural divide” narrative is false. while Carla Beck’s NDP swept all but one one seat in Regina and Saskatchewan, the Sask. Party still received a lot of the urban popular vote.
Changes resulted not from any “divide,” but voters demanding results addressing their own personal issues.
As for the city election, the new phenomenon: City voters will risk voting in untested unknowns for council, as residential/commercial property owners and tenants worry about rampant city debt and city taxes.
Provincially, urbanites demand senior health care and education now and rural voters want a robust economy, strong leadership and a trustworthy government.
Michael Lee, Regina
Moe’s attack hypocritical
If Scott Moe had discovered shortly before election day that the two children in question were those of a Saskatchewan Party MLA rather than those of a Regina NDP MLA, one wonders if this issue would have been mentioned — let alone touted as his first order of business should his party win the Oct. 28 election. Something to ponder.
Bonnie Haaland, North Saanich, B.C.
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