To the editor: We now have seen President Trump lower off meals and medical support to poor international locations, particularly in Africa, which can probably end in tens of hundreds, if not tens of millions, of deaths. Now we’re seeing his cruelty right here within the U.S.
By slicing off federal meals help (or SNAP), he’s utilizing starvation as a weapon in a partisan energy play (“Trump administration posts discover that no federal meals support will exit Nov. 1,” Oct. 26). For the reason that fundamental political disagreement answerable for the federal government shutdown is whether or not healthcare insurance coverage subsidies shall be ended, what Trump is telling tens of millions of poor and working-class Individuals is that if they need meals, they need to hand over healthcare. In the meantime, he’s constructing himself a gilded ballroom to wine and dine his rich company.
Michael E. Mahler, Los Angeles
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To the editor: We simply made an enormous donation to our native meals financial institution, which we now have supported for years. I really feel like I additional perceive these presently confronted with the choice to both maintain working within the authorities to reserve it, or to stop over not wanting to assist this administration.
I didn’t wish to donate the cash as a result of it not directly helps Trump and his Republican Occasion proceed to destroy our nation. However how can I let folks go hungry? There must be sufficient meals for everybody, to the purpose the place we don’t want meals banks. However the unhappy actuality is that we do — particularly now.
Carol Spector, Ventura
