Withholding funds slows progress in California wildfire recovery
Last weekend, as California marked the one-year anniversary of the wildfires that all but obliterated Altadena and neighboring communities, the CBS Sunday Morning news program aired an update showing the meager progress that has been made toward reconstruction. As a matter of fact, they stated that 80% of the survivors of the fire remain displaced.
In addition, the request for $40 billion of critical federal funding to rebuild the community is on hold and still under government “review.”
Having grown up in Colorado, and currently a resident of New Mexico, both states that have had (and will no doubt continue to have) their share of devastating fires, I’m concerned. I question why federal funds have not been released, especially under an administration that touts the motto “America First.”
It’s difficult to square how quickly President Trump doled out $20 billion to President Javier Milei to bail out the citizens of Argentina last October when financial aid is not forthcoming to help fellow Americans.
To make these observations is not disloyal or unpatriotic. It’s what smart people do.
Linda Swalm Wolcott, Corrales, N.M.
‘This is our fall of Rome’
Re: “Riot ‘does not happen’ without Trump, Smith told Congress,” Jan. 1 news story
The American people should celebrate Jack Smith as a bold patriot seeking justice for a horrific insurrection instigated by Donald Trump. History will hold Trump accountable even while Congress and the Justice Department will not.
What a different world we’d be living in if we were willing as a nation to say not even a sitting president can act outside the law. This is a man who insists on sending immigrants to be tortured in El Salvador without due process, “governing” by revenge — such as vetoing the pipeline from Pueblo reservoir — and dismantling foreign humanitarian aid. This is a man who claims to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. This is our fall of Rome.
Mindy Klowden, Denver
Hard political truths from the funny pages
Re: “Pearls Before Swine,” Sunday comics, Dec. 21
The comic strip shows how, under our two-party system today, we are stuck in an alternating power-and-destroy cycle. The out-of-power party will “yell, obstruct and hope [the other party] fails” with a punch line of “if the party in power fails, doesn’t the nation fail?”
This suggests why extremism of either party is not good. By definition extremists are “uncompromising” and, thus, cannot arrive at a consensus that will be livable by both sides. Only moderates will be able to live with the decision and try to build the nation.
Extremists cannot arrive at a consensus that will be livable by both sides. With extremists in power the nation’s leaders lose their ability to compromise and thus the entire nation fails.
Extreme liberals seem to think they are right since science says they are. They seem to think that science is always right. They must come to a consensus with unscientific thinking in order for democracy to work; the two must be in balance.
Extreme conservatives seem to think they are right because the majority of the population thinks they are or their elected officials say they are. But they haven’t factored scientific studies into that thinking. They must come to a consensus with the science in order for democracy to work; the two must be in balance.
Don Quick, Fort Collins
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