Response to letter praising Trump
Lee Roy Lollar and I have something in common despite being on opposite sides of the political spectrum: we frequently criticize. Lollar’s letter from Sunday, 12/27 was fundamentally different from mine in at least one respect, though. Unlike that letter — based entirely on speculation about a Presidency yet to officially begin — my criticisms are based on facts. The current President has a record to evaluate — President-elect Biden does not.
How fitting that Mr. Lollar’s letter was printed on a day when President Trump, whom Lollar is so enamored of, signed — under ‘cover’ of the late evening news cycle slow-down — the Covid-19 relief bill he at first threatened to veto on Christmas Eve. Let us not forget that President Trump’s own Treasury Secretary and chief negotiator on the bill had led everyone in Congress to believe that the President would sign the bill as it was. What did we gain from this delay? Well, the President got 3 more days in the spotlight while millions of people got to ‘enjoy’ Christmas under the threat of eviction, hunger, or both, just when they thought that at least some help was in sight. In other words, nothing except a heaping helping of stress. Swell. I’m sure that brightened the holiday for those on the edge considerably.
While Mr. Lollar will no doubt dislike my comments above, unlike him, I am evaluating things that have actually happened.
Paul Mack
Columbus
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