Lawmakers’ victim apathy and more: Letters – Latest News
Focus on victims
My coronary heart goes out to Theresa Bliss, whose son was brutally murdered (“Stop Ignoring Victims,” PostOpinion, June 3).
Ms. Bliss stated all of it so properly, too: Lawmakers should stop ignoring the households whose kids have been senselessly murdered.
It is past perception that lawmakers go to extremes to assist these despicable killers, whereas disregarding the agony of these devastated and heartbroken households, who will possible by no means recover from their excruciating tragedy.
It’s high time that public officers take a nearer have a look at what they’re doing on behalf of these horrible offenders and attain out to and assist these households, moderately than pander to those criminals. Enough is enough. And prayers to you, Ms. Bliss. I’m so very sorry on your loss.
Jeannie McDermott-Weldin, Dumont, NJ
Folly of Medicare
Re: “They’re Not Cutting Enough” (Editorial, June 4), once I turned 65, I used to be proud of my personal insurance coverage, and had little want to enroll in Medicare, which, like Medicaid, is financially teetering.
Yet, I used to be instructed that if I didn’t enroll in Medicare once I was 65, I might be penalized if I later opted for such protection. Thus, I reluctantly enrolled in Medicare and bought a personal “supplemental” plan to cowl the gaps in Medicare protection.
I’ve puzzled why the federal government would coerce individuals resembling myself to enroll in a financially harassed system once I was more than pleased to pay for my personal insurance coverage and thus not burden the federal government.
The reply most frequently given to me is that it was half of a delicate attempt to destroy personal health insurance coverage and thus to result in a “universal” plan managed by the federal government, which people resembling Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez overtly advocate for.
That could be the identical authorities that has gotten us into this precarious place concerning the long-term viability of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — plus an unsustainable national debt.
Edward Hochman, Manhattan
ADL’s irrelevance
As an honorary lifetime member of the Anti-Defamation League’s National Commission, I’m in sturdy settlement with the premise of Kathryn Wolf’s wonderful critique of America’s main Jewish organizations (“Mission drift,” PostScript, June 1).
I consider that the ADL, for one, has not been fulfilling its authentic mission from 1913 of preventing antisemitism within the United States.
Rather, it engages in expensive, refined statistical analysis, however doesn’t focus enough on schooling.
Beyond that, it has involved itself inappropriately with Israeli politics, thus diminishing its concentrate on US institutional and university-based antisemitism. The query is: How related have the foremost Jewish organizations been?
M.A. Fermaglich, Tenafly, NJ
Ernst’s pretend ‘sorry’
Sen. Joni Ernst appears to have dug her own grave with a bonkers graveyard “apology” for her snarky and inappropriate “we’re all going to die” remark at her city corridor the day earlier than (“Senator in mock apology,” June 2).
In her ersatz mea culpa, she dissed the Tooth Fairy (?) and instructed us to embrace her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
Ernst has most likely given her saner and wiser opponent, Nathan Sage, the inside monitor in Iowa’s subsequent senatorial election. Even the Tooth Fairy may agree with that.
Bob Canning, Petaluma, Calif.
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