Focus on victims
My heart goes out to Theresa Bliss, whose son was brutally murdered (“Stop ignoring victims”, Postopinion, 3 June).
Mrs. Bliss also said it so well: legislators must stop ignoring the families whose children have been killed uselessly.
It is outside the conviction that legislators go to the utmost to support these despicable murderers, while ignoring the pain of these destroyed and deeply sadly -driven families, who will probably never come over their unbearable tragedy.
It is high time that civil servants look further at what they do on behalf of these terrible perpetrators and reach and support these families, rather than admitting these criminals. Enough is enough. And prayer to you, Mrs. Bliss. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Jeannie McDermott-Weldin, Dumont, NJ
Foolishness of Medicare
Re: “They don’t cut enough” (editorial, June 4), when I turned 65, I was happy with my private insurance and I had little desire to register for Medicare, who, like Medicaid, shall shaky financially.
Yet I was told that if I had not registered for Medicare when I was 65, I would be punished if I later opted for such cover. That is why I reluctantly registered for Medicare and I bought a private “supplementary” plan to cover the gaps in Medicare.
I wondered why the government would force people like me to register for a financially stressed system when I was more than happy to pay for my private insurance and therefore not to tax the government.
The answer that is given the most is that it was part of a subtle attempt to destroy the private health insurance policy and therefore to achieve a “universal” plan that is controlled by the government, with which people such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez openly argues for.
That would be the same government that brought us into this precarious position with regard to the long-term viability of Medicare and Social Security-Plus a non-sustainable national debt.
Edward Hochman, Manhattan
ADL’s irrelevance
As an honorary member member of the National Commission of the Anti-Defamation League, I am very similar to the starting point of the excellent criticism of Kathryn Wolf on the most important Jewish organizations of America (“Mission Drift” PostScript, 1 June).
For example, I believe that the ADL did not fill its original mission from 1913 of combating anti -Semitism in the United States.
On the contrary, it is concerned with precious, advanced statistical research, but does not focus enough on education.
Furthermore, it is inappropriate with Israeli policy, which reduces its focus on American institutional and university anti -Semitism. The question is: how relevant have the major Jewish organizations been?
Ma Fermaglich, Tenafly, NJ
Ernst’s fake ‘sorry’
Senator Joni Ernst seems to have dug her own grave with a Bonkers cemetery “Applied” for her snarky and inappropriate “we are all going to die” commentary in her town hall the day before (“Senator in Mock Apology”, 2 June).
In her Ersatz Mea Culpa she dissolved the tooth fairy (?) And told us that they had to hug her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
Ernst probably gave her Saner and Wisere opponent, Nathan Sage, the inside of the next senatorial elections of Iowa. Even the tooth fairy can agree.
Bob Canning, Petaluma, Calif.
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