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Feb. 19, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: While complaining that the economy is in the Dumpster, why do over 100,000 people pay an average ticket price of over $200 to attend the Daytona 500, $377 to attend an NFL game, and over $1,000 for a Taylor Swift concert ticket (transportation, food and lodging excluded). Store shelves are full, and interstates are loaded with trucks carrying commodities from greedy manufacturers! Stop buying nonessential stuff and prices will come down. Consumers drive the economy, not the president.
Additionally, every bullet, rocket and piece of military hardware sent to Ukraine is replenished with equipment built in America by Americans living in Arizona, Alabama, Pennsylvania and other swing-states. This is creating good American jobs, but Mr. Trump wants the economy to tank so he will have at least one talking point while “camplaning.”
We have been reminded continually by the Republican Party about the disaster on our southern boarder. After four months of bipartisan negotiations finally resulting in a compromise, the same Republican Party refused to pass legislation that would help alleviate some of the issues because a twice impeached, 91-counts-indicted ex-president told the Republican Congress to kill the bill. Are they representing their constituents or genuflecting to an autocrat who doesn’t want the problem even partially solved solely for his own political gain?
Again as a reminder, in 2010 Republicans said they had a better health care plan which we still haven’t seen. In 2018 Trump promised Infrastructure Week which never occurred. Biden’s bipartisanship infrastructure plan was passed in his first year despite Representative Benjamin Cline’s no vote to improve your roads, bridges, broadband internet and much more. But he will be given credit for these improvements as they are implemented. Trump and his party have no solutions only complaints and false promises. My way or the highway will not accomplish anything. They will be remembered as the overpaid Do Nothing Congress.
Lastly, how’s Trump’s audit going, seen any of his aging health records? TOM DeSANTIS Buena Vista
