On Monday, April 7, The Facts ran a guest opinion piece by Janel McCann of West Columbia. (Should you look it up, it was The Facts weekend edition for Saturday/Sunday, April 5-6 that I receive on Monday.) She gave a well-written and comprehensive discussion of some of the bad things and good things the Trump administration has done. The good things, as it turns out, are all corrections to badly planned and executed decisions by the president and his cast of people with little experience in government, and in many cases, with little leadership experience at all. I was so excited to see someone in our crimson-red county speaking out for the value that government brings to our lives. She is a public school educator. Surprise . I responded to her article with a letter to the editor which The Facts ran yesterday in its April 10 edition. It follows:
Janel McCann’s guest column on Saturday provided an important service. Too many of us have sat silently while the administration has set about destroying the government that has been assembled over many years. Yes, government often muddles through on the way to getting things done, but the job of governing is complicated and unprofitable yet gets done when it really matters. After all, the products of government (like social security, defense, public education, health care for elderly, public health services, civil rights for all, pure science research, emergency response, weather prediction, etc.) are essential to the civilized, modern existence we have come to expect. And don’t wait for the private sector to do all these things for us.
Too many have been silent while our eyes and ears were telling us that something we hold dear is being taken from us.
No more. It is time for the new “silent majority” to roar and let America and the world know that the super-negotiator-in-chief has poked a sleeping bear. We are still America. We are still a democracy. We still believe in the rule of law. We still believe in peace, love, understanding, sharing and hope. These are the values that have been and always must be our message to our politicians and to the world.
Thank you, Ms. McCann. Just before Easter, your writing could not have come at a better time. On that day, we celebrate the resurrection of love. It cannot be forever suppressed.
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Thank you, Tom. I am just now seeing this today. Affirmation is a good thing.
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Thank you, Tom. You have and Janel have said what many a afraid to utter.
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I met Janel just recently and was very impressed with her knowledge and opinions about what has been happening in our country since the inauguration of a man who lacks empathy, lacks information, and lacks understanding of all things “government”. Janel addressed this comprehensively in this letter.
And, thank you Tom for your good response. I hope between hers and yours it will help people begin to understand we are all “one”.
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