Cao is not good for our state or our country
Dear Editor:
Shame on your publication for publishing a letter to the editor last month endorsing Hung Cao, and it is nothing more than a free political advertisement for Hung Cao, candidate for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.
It included the typical objection that government needs to stay out of businesses and homes. But the leading plank of the GOP, and a central issue of Hung Cao’s campaign, is an anti-abortion drive. This drive seeks to have government regulate inside our homes and bodies.
This drive is widely repudiated currently as real costs in states with strict anti-abortion laws are having a strong negative effect on women’s health, and we are seeing doctors and some businesses fleeing from affected states.
The letter wrongfully implies President Biden and his party are at fault for rising gas prices, although it is widely recognized that a president has virtually no control over this. The letter fails to note most of the world is suffering from blistering fuel prices.
Is Biden at fault outside our country too? Will he get credit now that prices are starting to recede? The letter also condemns Cao’s opponent, Jennifer Wexton, for supporting high government spending as a cause of runaway inflation (another worldwide problem, not just the U.S.).
The author took a partisan slap at government lockdowns and policies in dealing with Covid-19, when the former administration labeled it “a hoax.” Mr. Cao and his promises would cut away our health insurance safety net and leave countless citizens vulnerable to unexpected health costs.
I have personally seen these costs threaten the life savings for friends and relatives. Mr. Cao is not good for our state or our country.
Daniel Stapleton, Aldie
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OK. I get the partisan slam but please don’t assume all readers are THAT STUPID!
When the chief executive publicly says he will shut down all fossil fuels it forces costs up as the eventual life of those assets become shorter and that doesn’t even include the closure of domestic pipeline progress. Congress and the President BOTH cooperated with the federal reserve pumping $120 billion into M2 every month through March of 2022 since Mr Biden was elected which CAUSED INFLATION! Did our representative have any problems with such absurd actions? NO! Did our representative have any problems with a TRILLION dollar inflation driving gift to tuition recipients THAT WILL WORSEN INFLATION! Did our representative who is a former prosecutor have any problem with NOT enforcing the laws agains protesters trying to influence Supreme Court Justices at their homes? Please accept that not everybody getting ready to vote in November is so stupid they can’t appreciate that covering up the Hunter Biden laptop was inappropriate for our government to do? VOTE!