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Hypocrisy thy name is Republicans who continue to spew one sided, quasi truths in their quest to buttress the baloney they feed us. Why is it that whenever the right screams about the abuses of the left they conveniently overlook their own transgressions?
On the border, a problem kicked down the road for decades, a bipartisan Congress tried last year to pass a needed start to immigration reform. The liar-in-chief shot it down as the issue was his ticket back to the White House. If this administration, parts one and two, had spent as much money on revamping the immigration courts as they have on border walls, detention camps and ICE raids a lot of the border issue likely would be resolved.
Obstructionists? An art perfected by Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell. Why is the national debt only an important issue when Democrats are in power? Why must the rest of us suffer in so many ways yet realized to provide tax cuts for the wealthy? I could go on and on but you get the idea. For every argument the right pitches a cognizant counter argument can be put forth. Complex issues cannot be resolved by constantly distorting the facts to fit ones predilections. Two hundred words cannot adequately convey my thoughts so I will just say there is a sickness upon the land.
-Steve Bennett Newport
I want to know if you’re ready?
It doesn’t matter to me who you blame, I want to know if you are ready to recognize that none of us are blameless.
It doesn’t matter to me what triggers you carry, I want to know if you are ready to summon the courage to investigate what they are hiding from you.
It doesn’t matter to me what your story is, I want to know if you are ready to notice that yours is not the only one and intentionally listen to another’s.
It doesn’t matter to me if you don’t perceive propaganda, I want to know if you are ready to think for yourself beyond mainstream and alternative media.
It doesn’t matter to me what chaos happens, I want to know if you are ready to find that space of peace within and hold it when needed.
It doesn’t matter to me who you voted for, I want to know if you are ready to work together for the sovereignty and survival of our species.
It doesn’t matter to me if you are hopeless about the future, I want to know if you are ready, willing and able to work to make a better place for our children.
-Stacy Cossey Priest River
I want my tax dollars spent on the
greater good
Is the MAGA crew the only group that can tout “saving taxpayers’ money”? How many times have we heard this line? By closing USAID and leaving millions of people worldwide without lifesaving medicine we are saving taxpayers’ money. By not funding agencies with the money they have been promised by Congress we are saving taxpayers’ money. By firing hard-working, knowledgeable Federal employees who predict hurricanes and floods, we are saving taxpayer money. The list goes on under the guise of saving taxpayers’ money.
I want my taxes used for reliable health care for the majority of my neighbors, for the education of all our country’s children, for life saving relief after natural disasters. I don’t want my taxes to go for tanks patrolling a peaceful US city, or a military parade through the streets of our nation’s capital.
If I had the choice, I would not let my tax dollars be used to create concentration camps in the Florida everglades or fund masked ICE storm troopers ‘capturing’ law abiding people where they work. I want my taxes to fund a government based on the Constitution and the rule of law rather than the chaos of a mean-spirited dictator in training.
-Martha Nichols Newport
The price of giving billionaire a tax break
Well, you have your big ugly bill that may cause our local rural hospital to close. Think about diving 100 miles plus to Spokane for a medical test that could be done at the Newport public hospital. That trip will be the price for giving a billionaire a tax break. Your political leanings will be in the rear-view mirror as you waste your time and money driving to find medical care that is currently available from our local public hospital.
There are many more similar traps in the big ugly bill, but the bill is passed and can’t be changed when voters find out how the trap affects them.
Our best hope is that the next president and congress will pass bills that reverse the big ugly bill of 2025. Potential relief won’t come until 2030 and America will be where it was in 2016. Call this the “Trump effect”. Our country won’t be great. It will be where it was before Trump entered politics fifteen years in our rear-view mirrors.
Perhaps medical research will be restarted and new vaccines developed. Maybe floods and other disasters will be prevented. Fixing broken political sewer pipes is a messy business.
-Pete Scobby Newport
Need clarification on relevance
In response to the author of the July 9th letter, “Context with numbers important.” Once again, the author has demonstrated my point. I did not claim I sought an “apples-to-apples” comparison. In contrast, I was highlighting the fallacious analogy presented in their letter, of which they have subsequently admitted they were wrong.
Now their current argument is supported by a substantial collection of questionable data that appears to have been manipulated to align with their preexisting biases. Upon reviewing the numbers provided, utilizing their own reference, the dataset consists of January’s monthly data for each year from 2021 to 2025, which appears to have been employed to support the allusion of a consistent decline in annual inflation. Certainly, in this instance, their assertion regarding the significance of context is accurate.
Furthermore, my letter was published in the July 2nd edition, not the June 2nd edition. The successes keep piling up. As discussed in my previous correspondence, the decline in the inflation rate during the former president’s administration was primarily attributed to the Federal Reserve’s “series of interest rate hikes.” Perhaps the author could please clarify the relevance of this newest dataset to the original letter they were complaining about?
-Renee Webster Newport
