Americans’ affordability disaster: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump dismissing claims that Americans face vital affordability points.
President Trump is as delusional as his predecessors (“Affordability is an issue, and voters want action,” Editorial, Nov. 7).
Leaders on this nation have no concept what it’s like for the average particular person.
Down right here on the ground, I watch as my income is eroded by the rising price of residing with no finish insight.
The Biden years have been terrible and now President Trump is simply making it worse.
It’s time we begin electing people who’ve been confronted with the pressures of residing in the actual world, not those who’ve by no means needed to.
Chris Plate
Waterloo
I voted for Trump and wish to take my vote back.
In December 2024 I used to be paying round $5 for a can of espresso (1 lb, 9.9 oz).
The identical container of espresso is now over $20.
Trump brags that the economic system is doing great.
Unfortunately, it’s on the expense of the patron.
I’m on Social Security, and if this retains up, I can be serving to Trump brag in regards to the rise within the job market as a result of I’ll be on the lookout for one myself.
Cecelia Clark
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Every day I learn one other article saying Trump hasn’t finished enough to deliver costs down.
Apparently, this was a main purpose Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor.
Was anybody paying consideration during the prior administration?
Overall costs began escalating early on within the Biden administration and continued to spiral upwards for 4 years.
How can anybody realistically assume this catastrophe may very well be fixed in much less than a 12 months?
It is all the time simpler accountable Trump than those that began the issue.
Both sides of the political aisle need to put their partisanship apart and repair this albatross.
Agatha Nadel
Glen Head
I recommend Trump allot $100 to personally store for primary requirements in a native grocery store.
That may fill one bag.
It will quell any illusions or doubts he has about the associated fee of residing in America as we speak.
Elizabeth Bride
Gillette, NJ
Nowhere in your editorial did you point out that Trump is preventing ferociously with the Federal Reserve to dramatically decrease rates of interest.
Cutting them three full factors would free up $935 off my month-to-month mortgage funds on the “cost of money” alone.
Imagine what hundreds of thousands of Americans like myself may do with that additional income.
This is well the most important nonpartisan financial story within the nation.
The Post ought to dedicate sources to following its progress.
Luana Dunn
Glen Burnie, Md.
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The Issue: Jamaal Bowman’s push to develop into Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s faculties chancellor.
Religious and personal faculties need to know the risk to schooling posed by socialism, Marxism and anti-semitism (“Zoh school fools seeking top job,” Nov. 9).
These alternate options to public faculties ought to shortly develop to accommodate households unable to flee the town.
Teachers alarmed by the help for antisemitic candidates ought to rethink their future and re-kindle their understanding of Germany circa 1933. It’s pressing that media repeatedly broadcast all of the videos of candidates, corresponding to Jamaal Bowman, publically cursing our democracy, Israel and anybody in contrast to them.
Michael Horowitz
Fresh Meadows
It seems not one of the chancellor candidates is even remotely certified to go the nation’s largest public-school system.
Parents need their kids to study the fundamentals and get forward on benefit, not be brainwashed with antisemitic classes.
But Bowman ought to be put in charge of all fire drills, as he’s an knowledgeable.
J.J. Levine
Miami Beach, Fla.
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