These following Letters to the Editor were submitted to The Palm Beach Post Opinion Page. The Palm Beach Post wants to hear your opinion − conservative, liberal and all points between. Letters must include the writer's name, address and daytime phone number. Letters are subject to editing for clarity and length, and become property of The Palm Beach Post. We ask that you limit your letters to 200 words. To send a letter, email to
letters@pbpost.com, or fax it to (561) 820-4728. You can also send it via snail mail to: The Palm Beach Post, 2751 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33405. Whether the topic's growth and development, traffic, the environment, or government spending, we want to hear from you.GOP too rich for our blood
When we can’t afford something we don’t
buy it. Affordability and the economy is our top issue for the upcoming elections, and Republicans are far too expensive. Under them jobs are hard to find, wages are sluggish and the cloud of inflation still hangs over our heads as rent, insurance, gas and grocery prices soar, making life hard for so many.
Republicans take tax dollars from the large, less-financially-secure community to give more money to the rich to help pay for their mansions, yachts and private school vouchers, instead of using our money for the greater good, like healthcare, food, shelter, Medicaid and public schools with a living wage for teachers. It’s time to use our precious votes to move forward for the wellbeing of the larger community instead of just a small group of extremely rich who have more than enough money to take care of themselves. We just can’t afford Republicans.
Elin Chernow Shusterman, Boynton Beach
America still needs Obamacare
It annoys me greatly when I see how the Republicans continue their assault on the Affordable Care Act. What's worse for every American is when they use health care and profitability in the same sentence. I have an idea, let's give the trillion-dollar defense budget to provide healthcare to all citizens and tell the Department of War to go out and become profitable. [Republican Sen.] Mitch McConnell must be very pleased he has been granted a few more days on this earthly plane to see his dream of demolishing Obamacare become a reality.
William Damato, Boynton Beach
This investment won't wipe you out
My new investment strategy: I am diverting one quarter of my assets to toilet paper, toilet bowl manufacturers and emergency bandages. Montezuma’s Revenge, long a scourge associated with unsanitary conditions, has been joined by Explosive Diarrhea, its first cousin, and toilet bowls are being destroyed, exploded, across this nation. Pray for anyone standing in the way if explosive diarrhea hits after your salad in a fine restaurant. [Health and Human Services Secretary] Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s investments must also be in this product mix.
I no longer use public restrooms. They pose the hazard of flying porcelain, and not clean flying porcelain at that. Diarrhea strikes fear into a normal, healthy person. Precede it with EXPLOSIVE and at my advanced age, lettuce is now a hazard. With my agricultural background, I understand the need for sanitary conditions in the field, porta-potties, handwashing facilities, and enforcement of the regulations. Reduce inspection personnel and take other measures to make lettuce toxic and other vegetables suspect, then invest in the industry that will benefit. The last time I invested in toilet paper and revolving doors, I was wiped out before I could turn around. This time will be different. Ronald Running.
Clayton Hutcheson, West Palm Beach
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