To the editor: Contributing author Jon Duffy’s headline applies to so many different areas apart from reverting to previous applied sciences for plane provider launches (“Trump is spending billions to reverse American progress,” Aug. 31).
Look at the federal finances and insurance policies. The identical headline might be utilized to President Trump spending cash on packages in environmental destruction, lawlessness in justice and rewriting historical past. It could actually apply to the spurning of allies and diplomatic collaboration and initiating and combating spurious wars. Then there’s the defunding of well being packages and spreading confusion about vaccines.
There are numerous different examples: slashing federal help to schooling, legalizing discrimination, exploding the nationwide debt, selling fossil fuels on the expense of inexperienced vitality, defanging civil and human rights legal guidelines, undermining gun management legal guidelines, growing the ability of billionaires and firms to purchase elections and establishing limits on voting. The weakening of Congress and the curbing of the ability of decrease courts, the constructing of private monuments and the destruction of others and the cuts to scientific analysis grants are all additional examples of how our tax {dollars} are at work reversing American packages that now we have fought so lengthy and exhausting to determine.
Duffy’s description barely represents the “tip of the iceberg,” as most lately uncovered by the melting of a glacier in Nepal, whereas the Trump administration denies local weather change.
Joel Pelcyger, Los Angeles
