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Do your part to save Bay Area transit
Re: “Rail future on shaky ground” (Page A1, Feb. 23).
I rely on transit to get to work, visit my family, visit my friends and run errands. We have a wonderful transit system here in the Bay Area. It’s easy to critique the details, but I love that I can get where I need to go using just my Clipper Card and my own two feet, and that transit reduces traffic and keeps our air cleaner.
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If someone asks you to sign the petition for the ballot measure to the Public Transit Revenue Measure District, please do sign. Or better yet, join me as a volunteer.
Lisa Danz San Francisco
Israel’s annexation plan is true path to peace
Re: “Netanyahu playing Trump, U.S. Jews for fools” (Page A9, Feb. 22).
Tom Friedman thinks that Israel can achieve peace by renouncing its 4,000-year-old religious heritage and its historic claim to the land of Israel, and yielding the heart of that land to a separate Arab state. This would not bring peace, but endless conflict.
The Palestinian Arabs have none of the essential attributes of nationhood, and have never shown any interest in developing them. Their only consistent national aspiration has been to destroy the Jewish state. Full annexation of Judea and Samaria is the correct move both legally and morally. Friedman’s fear of disaster is vastly overblown.
If Israel acts with confidence and resolution, it will prevail. By maligning the Jews’ 2,000-year-old longing for the restoration of their ancient nation in the land of its birth as a type of insanity, he merely shows the depth of his estrangement from his own Jewish heritage.
Martin Wasserman Palo Alto
Executive Orders should require OK by Congress
Re: “Trump boosts new tariff rate to 15% a day after announcing 10%” (Page A4, Feb. 22).
I’m sure most people would agree with the Supreme Court that the Constitution doesn’t allow Donald Trump to set tariffs, but now he wants another tariff of 15%.
Trump seems to be too lazy to roll up his sleeves and do the real work of being president. It’s much easier just to dash off a new executive order or complain on X about other people.
Congress needs to pass a law that requires its approval before executive orders are implemented. Presidents from both parties have used them to sidestep a vote from Congress too often.
Bill Graham Salinas
Gu turned her back on America’s freedom
Re: “Eileen Gu finds gold in the halfpipe for her 6th Olympic medal” (Feb. 22).
Apparently, Eddie Pells didn’t study civics or world history.
The United States is a democracy where the individual has certain rights guaranteed by the Constitution, among them are the right to free speech, to religion, to vote, to peacefully protest, etc. Its economy is capitalist, based upon free enterprise. The People’s Republic of China, on the other hand, is a communist country where the individual has no rights, dissent is not allowed, there is no political opposition, no independent judiciary and the economy is controlled by the Communist Party. China ranks high when it comes to human rights abuses. It is diametrically opposite of everything that makes the U.S. the standard bearer of freedom.
Eileen Gu’s decision to represent China in the Olympics, rather than the country of her birth, where she was raised and educated, was a poor choice.
Frank Nicoletti San Jose
Valley’s wealthy showed colors at inauguration
Re: “Silicon Valley flexes financial muscle in gubernatorial race” (Page A8, Feb. 22).
The last thing California needs is the demonstration of Silicon Valley commitments as demonstrated by Bay Area billionaires groveling at the feet of Donald Trump during the last inauguration.
What California needs, as the fourth-largest economy in the world, is the streetfighter spirit of Eric Swalwell and his willingness to challenge the Republican stench emanating from D.C.
Who in their right mind would trust a billionaire businessman about anything in light of the murders, violence and wreckage served up during the last 18 months?
Marion Baldwin San Jose
Affordability has gone to the dogs
We are dog-sitting our son’s dog, a mutt from the Humane Society, for five days.
Mango likes to chew dog bones and went through a package of eight from Petco, so I bought another package of eight, plus a package of three longer bones — total price $75.
Tell me again how living is low-cost now, and ordinary people can afford to keep an ordinary dog.
Jean Ricket Saratoga
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