The GOP isn’t ruining the country

A recent letter writer blames Republicans for potentially pushing our country into default.  He claims that they demand drastic spending. 

I see that as a rather ludicrous statement, as it comes on the heels of the Inflation Reduction Act, which packed millions in dubious spending.  The Democrats also wasted millions on the so-called Russian election interference conspiracy. That has been proven to be false. 

Biden has given in to the radical left and continues to spend, spend, spend. And, of course,  everything that has gone wrong with this country in the last two-and-a-half years, the big guy blames on Maga Republicans.  Someone please point him towards a mirror and tell him to look into it. He will get a glimpse of a man who is ruining this country. 

Bob Henderson 
Narrowsburg,  NY

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I’m delighted to see you have added another humor writer. 

I laughed out loud at the Containing China column (online, May  2023), which begins with “The Athenian general and historian Thucydides—whose experiences led to the Peloponnesian war between a strong Sparta and a rising Athens—”

Thus making Thucydides a sole figure of unimaginable power and bringing about war between two powerful city-states, a classical precursor to our own George Soros, who managed to convince an entire WORLD of a fake virus, chuckling and twirling his moustaches.  

I grinned at  “China cares nothing about human rights, which has mass appeal to pariah nations who avoid dealing with Western economies due to ideological differences on the value of every human life.”

Because starving people do often refuse the hand that feeds them unless it meets with their ethical ideals of not having ethical ideals. 

I love the satiric SAT-type sentences:

Read the paragraph, then answer the questions: “Underestimating these capabilities and those of our regional allies—given its ambitions for Taiwan—would unleash a decisive tactical advantage we possess across the Pacific designed to confuse, delay, draw and terminate any offensive action”

What is the author saying here?

What is the subject, the verb, the, well, anything?  

How does this underestimating “unleash a tactical advantage,” and by whom? 

And exactly WHAT is designed to confuse, delay, draw and terminate anything, but the poor befluxed readers?

Please, my sides are aching. 

Thank you for the pleasure, 

Harriet Quimby 
Damascus Township, PA