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Kitchen Table Issues

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Editor, Times-Union:

Definition of title: Issues that are of concern to the average person that might be discussed by the family around the kitchen table. Examples are jobs, taxes, social security, health care, the economy. In other words, the sort of everyday concerns that confront ordinary folks on a daily basis.

Democrats’ activities and plans related to above title (past 2 ½ years):

Admit to and provide remedies for a deadly pandemic - check

Increase number of jobs for all citizens - check

Lower health care costs - check

Work to improve economy - check

Seek to “secure” social security, Medicare, Medicaid - check

Strive to strengthen gun laws to reduce gun violence -check

Develop and bring more manufacturing to America -check

Set forth plans to improve environment and save planet - check

Set forth and develop infrastructure plans for entire country - check

Fight to preserve and restore rights for ALL people everywhere - check

Seek to ensure everyone pays fair share of taxes - check

Restore safety regulations for the benefit of workers in particular and the public in general - check

Republicans’ activities and plans related to above title: ?

Republicans’ activities and plans for other “pressing” issues (past several years):

Expose everything on Hunter Biden’s laptop - nothing after 5+ years

Call for the elimination of all rights for all persons who are not straight or white or Christian - check

Use self-recognized wisdom (or complaints of a couple parents) to ban all books deemed inappropriate (by their standards) for all students - check

Try and try again to sneak in disguised cuts to Social Security and Medicare - check

Make sure to always appease “big business,” the NRA, and billionaires - check

Investigate and subpoena all who may put a wrench in plans to divide and destroy our democracy - check

Push to return women’s health care rights to the dark ages - check (ongoing)

Fire, demote, expel anyone who does not agree with them (easier than compromising) - check

Expand voting restrictions especially in areas where opposition is strongest - check

Relax gun laws so no one can be denied the right to solve disputes by lethal means - check

Insist that teachers are grooming their students to be whatever they are not - check

Insist that a disgraced, twice-impeached, indicted former president who never won a popular vote is still the rightful president  - because he said so - check

Kowtow to the incoherent, mind-numbing rantings of “Ultra MAGA’s” who are now pulling all the strings of their puppet leaders - check

Overturn/rescind anything good accomplished by Dems - still trying

Keep telling the general public that the Dems are doing all the horrible things that they are actually doing themselves (it’s called projection) - check

Make sure the general public is always fearful, skeptical of facts, and free to blame others for their grievances - check

Convince the public that more people with guns will lower the death count of children - still trying

The only issues needing attention on my kitchen table right now are the dirty dishes. All real issues are being handled by a party that cares … while the other party is drooling, plotting revenge, and sowing the seeds of its own destruction.

Jeanne Schutz

Winona Lake