Trade policies hurt us
Recently, every time I have driven by the old Nabisco plant I get a sick feeling in my stomach. Seeing it in its current state, half torn down and exposed, is a visual reminder of the pain inflicted by trade policies that reward the top 1 percent and screw working people.
For generations, the Nabisco plant provided good-paying jobs. Thousands of families benefited from those jobs. Now where are the jobs going? To Mexico, where Mondelez (Nabisco’s successor) can pay workers slave wages. This is all perfectly legal. In fact, they get a tax benefit for doing it.
Who makes out in this system? The richest 0.1 percent of our population. On the floor of the House of Representatives, I exposed how the CEO of Mondelez was given $120 million for her “good work” running the company. Part of her massive payout was a reward for closing our Nabisco plant and moving it to Mexico.
This system is stacked against American working families. It’s killing us. We must change this system. If we don’t, the new face of America will look like the Nabsico plant does right now.
Congressman Brendan F. Boyle
13th District, U.S. House of Representatives
“Marie’s Birthday”
“She’ll be 16 this September,
On the eleventh, our Marie.
It’s obvious she can’t remember…..
All the people screaming,
Because she was dreaming.
And while thousands were dying,
she was crying.
And so were millions of others
crying like Marie.
And what of the other millions
under twenty three or four years old?
What memories have they, if any,
of that day 16 years ago?
To Marie it matters dearly.
Our brave young girl has sworn
“We must carry on its meaning
For the screaming
While I was dreaming…..Mom,
For the dying,
While I was crying…..Dad,
For the generations unborn.”
Thomas G. Wetten
Modena Park
Back our law enforcement
The Philadelphia FOP had a rally to back its officers. A lot of people attended this rally. FOP President John McNesby stated that all elected officials were extended an invitation. Predictably, some people decided that attending was not in their best interests. This, in a few words, is ridiculous and appalling
The individuals not in attendance were Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Democratic district attorney candidate Larry Krasner, Democratic city controller candidate Rebecca Rhynhart and City Council member Helen Gym. If you ask why I included Helen Gym, she is an individual who is pushing for the removal of the Frank Rizzo statue. A statue, by the way, that is a symbol of law enforcement.
These individuals have a common bond that should have nothing to do with backing the people who keep us safe but it does. This bond that they all have is far left liberalism. It is an ideology that doesn’t back law enforcement and is very unsafe. They back groups that believe you can show up at a police officer’s house and intimidate an officer’s family.
This is not right and is not fair. This is a group of elected officials and candidates who have put ideology over backing law enforcement. We the people must remember this on Nov. 7 and beyond. The police officers of our great city deserve better.
David Lee
Chalfont
Millennials are clueless
This is what happens when you have people who are ignorant of history, especially the rioters who are carrying the signs: “America was never great.”
Why don’t they take a trip to Gettysburg and reflect on that hallowed ground — the 500,000 white soldiers of the Civil War who gave their lives on American soil for the freedom of the blacks?
This is what happens when you forget the sacrifices of the past for the price of our freedom today.
Yes, America is great.
You have soldiers, policemen, servicemen, all putting their lives in harm’s way for our freedom.
So to all the millennials who have no clue to our American history, obviously the common core curriculum did no justice to your intelligence.
Al Ulus
Somerton
