Left’s Misinformation
To The Editor:
I reread Mr. Kuhn’s letter (FCR 5/6/22) and did not find the “wrongful accusations” or “destruction of political dialogue” Mr. Mikus claims in his recent letter (FCR 5/13/22). Mr. Kuhn expressed a clear opinion that Mr. Mikus doesn’t agree with. Maybe I should report Mr. Mikus to the new Ministry of Truth for his misrepresentations/misinformation?
Mr. Mikus is the one who has wrongly accused the Republicans of “inability to govern” while neglecting to give credit to the Democrats for leading the U.S. into uncharted territory by dissolving traditional bedrocks of the American system such as Constitutional law and order, and free speech.
Biden has 44 years of collective government service as a U.S. senator and vice president, before his inauguration as President and has amassed a substantial foreign and national security record that raises serious questions about whether his votes and decisions detrimentally affected the U.S. economy, U.S. national security, and international peace and security. Robert Gates, (Obama’s Defense Secretary), reported in 2014, “Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” How has he changed?
With respect to Mr. Mikus’s reference to “offshoring of American jobs and manufacturing to China,” Robert Gates also reports “Biden championed and voted for President Clinton’s initiative to normalize trade relations with China and facilitated its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. China’s economic rise contributed to the closing of some 60,000 U.S. factories. The Economic Policy Institute reported that it also cost about 3.7 million U.S. jobs, mostly in the manufacturing sector.”
Mr. Mikus confuses me with his rant about providing security for Middle East oil we no longer need when U.S. energy production has been put on hold by Biden policy. The U.S. has large deposits of oil and gas and the know-how to build safe pipelines and ensure the cleanest energy development—which the Biden’s administration has throttled with a wall of bureaucratic red tape. He stopped the Keystone pipeline project and the Dept. of Interior recently halted the potential to drill for oil in over a million acres in Alaska as well as in the Gulf of Mexico.
Regarding the accusation of obstructing “green energy economy,” Mr. Mikus must not have seen this headline in the Federalist (2018), “Taxpayer funding for ‘Green Energy’ Has Been a Financial Dumpster Fire.” The final two paragraphs of the article are particular poignant. “Leading “green” companies can’t seem to conduct themselves honestly. While ending subsidies to these boondoggles would be best for taxpayers, insisting on more frequent audits and greater transparency would be a welcome first step for financial regulators looking to restore order to the market.” The renewable energy sector can be incorporated alongside the oil and gas industry but neither should be taxpayer subsidized.
President Clinton signed the Financial Services Modernization Act that repealed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999. Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in 2010.
Medicare for all is unsustainable and just as unfair to the general populace as cancelling student debt.
To quote a respected author, “Once obscure, crack-pot academic theories—i.e. “modern monetary theory,” critical legal theory, critical race theory—now dominate policymaking in the Biden administration.” Ideology overrules common sense.
The left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.
Cindy Rodibaugh Flatonia