Letters: Trump’s AmeriCorps cuts are not making America great
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Trump s cuts are not making America great Re California other states sue Trump Page B April I am a volunteer with The Reading Venture which is funded by AmeriCorps I requested to give a first-hand account of what these cuts mean I ve been helping a struggling -year-old learn to read at her grade level She is so invested in learning and looks forward to our tutoring sessions invariably asking when we will meet again To have this tutoring just cut off will hurt her progress as well as the trust we have built If regime oversight wants to review how funds are spent fine I don t agree with just axing vital programs no questions questioned These kids are being hurt It is not making America great it s shameful Amy Asquith Campbell After days Trump is the same old fraud Re Trump marks first days in office focused on grievances Page A April Donald Trump suggests to be a master dealmaker who will make America great again Only about a third of America s eligible voters backed Trump in the balloting hardly a landslide mastery Now that he is literally tearing the country apart countless evidently still believe him The facts tell a starkly different story Before Trump had no noteworthy prior experience in governmental dealings That fact alone should be disqualifying He has since been convicted by a twelve-person jury of multiple felonies for falsifying business records in an effort to influence the electoral contest His private company stands convicted of massive tax fraud Those facts should be disqualifying Furthermore Trump has an abominable business history chiefly as an unscrupulous upscale landlord triggering thousands of litigations involving bankruptcies unpaid contractors and fines That history reveals both his business incompetence and his utter contempt for the law In sum Trump is as inevitably a self-aggrandizing liar and a fraud Jerry Meyer San Jose Trump should take page from NFL s book The NFL is punishing the Atlanta Falcons and their offensive line coach for the bogus call made to Shedeur Sanders during the NFL draft Their reaction was appropriate and responsible Then you have to compare it to President Trump and his administration s reaction to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth s chat indiscretion on two separate occasions No punishment total denial that anything was wrong with war plans being discussed with his wife brother and lawyer listening in What a frightening contrast Hegseth is only one of the unqualified members of Trump s cabinet who are running our country into the ground Lynda Martinez San Jose Milieu must be central in resistance Re Pope Francis was a prescient circumstances hero Page A April and Offering weary bus riders a seat Page E April As the world responds to Donald Trump s chaos I m glad to see the Mercury News squeeze in particular articles about the importance of surroundings change In a fresh protest I attended in San Jose there were hundreds of signs but none mentioning surroundings change The opinion piece on Pope Francis summarizes how the context situation poverty and selfishness are connected Francis reminds all of us to urgently take action and to cooperate for the care of creation This leads to the second article Mingwei Samuel s work to build benches for bus riders in the Bay Area Rather than complaining or being frozen with despair he took action with others and got the work done As opposition to Trump crystallizes we must keep the atmosphere front and center Humans are a small part of nature but our impact is enormous and the rest of nature doesn t get a vote Tom Calderwood Los Gatos Big Tech is big because it works Re Google chief says breakup plan would hobble its business Page C May I don t want the Justice Department to break up Google or Apple or any of the others The fact that their products work so well within their ecosystems is why I use them I don t want to go back to trying to fit together email and browsers etc together on my own What we have right now works Leave it alone Karen Brenchley Santa Rosa State should offer help to all its citizens Re Bill would give homeowners cash to fireproof Page B May Related Articles Letters Lee must demand more assessment of Oakland Airport expansion Letters Pope Francis was prescient on environment Letters Newsom must answer for CPUC makeup Letters County must find alternatives to office of schooling layoffs Letters Restore NIH funding to keep nation healthy and great This is a nice law for a region however why is it that politicians think that only low-income individuals need assistance especially during this financial dilemma which we all are facing Let s face it even though California may be the fourth largest economic activity in the world it won t lift a finger for all its residents We need better executive and not just a welfare system for the limited Otherwise why pay property taxes sales taxes or even file state taxes if the establishment doesn t represent all of its citizens Jeff Staben Santa Cruz
