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HORRIFIC EXAMPLE
President Trump just used
the Bible as an excuse to
divide parents from infants
and abduct and torture
children at detention sites.
Our president has now
reached the lowest bar,
repeating a similar program
that Nazis once employed
under Hitler. Trump is not
only a horrific example for the
Christian faith; he is a horrific
example and disgrace for our
country.
~ GRANT MARCUS
VIA EMAIL
TARIFFS TOO LOW
Donald Trump has been placing various tariffs on
products produced overseas. There are arguments between
economists as to whether these tariffs are helpful to the
American economy. So far it seems the tariffs have been
useful to the Trump administration in opening discussions
with other nations in renegotiating trade agreements.
What is not being thought about is the cost to the
environment of the global economy. When viewed for this
standpoint, the Trump administration’s tariffs are far too
low and far too temporary.
It is true that US manufacturers have moved production
from the United States to China, Vietnam, India,
Indonesia and the like to avoid those burdensome and
costly regulations. We are shipping steel, aluminum,
glass and plastic production to places that impose lower
environmental standards than those in place in America in
1955. This, naturally, leads
to local environmental
degradation where the
factories are located. But
this unregulated production
also pollutes the entire
world’s air and oceans. This
shift in production from
places with clean air, soil
and water regulations to
places with no regulation
has an obvious worldwide
systemic negative impact.
The United States,
Europe and the British
Commonwealth should
develop tariffs based on
the differential of the cost
between complying and not
complying with clean air,
soil and water standards,
plus a penalty for the
pollution, plus a further
penalty for shipping the
products halfway around
the world. Yes, the shipping
has an impact on worldwide
clean oceans and clean air.
These tariffs would improve
worldwide water, air and soil
quality by encouraging either
production in nations with
high ecological standards
for production or for nations
without those standards
to implement them to keep
production there.
The United States can,
and as the world’s largest
consumer should, implement
tariffs that protect the
environment of the whole
Earth.
~ STEVE LAMB
ALTADENA
UNITE FOR CHANGE
“Christian” conservative
politicians have no empathy
or emotion. They do not
know love. They are
psychopaths hidden behind
a “mask of sanity” that
presents them as Christians,
but they are not Christians.
They are “Caricatures of
Christians.” Their actions
are not Christ-like. They take
everything from their fellow
man. They are fascists who
create misery, pain, civil
oppression, economic failure
and endless war. They don’t
care about us; they have no
guilt, conscience or remorse.
Our thinking is atomized.
Whatever we concern
ourselves with grows.
Emphasize democracy, not
fascism. All we do is discuss
possibilities of what was
bad, what is bad, and what
may be bad. We see, hear
and know what is right
but we are too cowardly
to take on the injustice we
see festering everywhere.
We have all the information
we need to unite and break
free. We deny what we know
because our awareness
demands that we unite
in every different fight.
Think only how to unite.
Unite your intelligence and
intuition into one thinking
unit for change. Think only
on how to change America
for the better.
~ CHRISTOPHER JUDGES
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