Tax dollars at work

Because of Hurricane Dorian, our president decided to stay at home rather than travel to Ireland. Instead, our president sent Vice President Pence to the meeting in Dublin while he stayed home and played a few rounds of golf.

However, rather than staying in Dublin, Pence stayed at a Trump property on the other side of Ireland and will have to fly back and forth across the country to attend the meetings.

I guess the current president would rather pocket our tax dollars by using one of his own properties nowhere close to Dublin and then waste more taxpayer dollars on airfare for the VP to attend the meetings.

Am I missing something, or is this how we make America great again — by wasting taxpayer dollars in order for the president to make a buck. Sad!

Jim Propert, Fort Myers

Liberal thinkers 

Letter after letter is written by Trump supporters claiming that liberal thinkers are all Trump haters.

Speaking for myself, what I want in a president is a couple simple things. Not to lie on average of eight times a day. Trust what your National Security advisers are telling you and stop throwing them under the bus. Stop cozying up to murderous dictators. We have allies for a reason, stop treating them like enemies. When there is a disaster don’t make it seem like you’re the victim. And how about not locking kids in cages.

I could go on but I’m sure the trumpsters stopped reading after the first line.

RBG, hang in there girl.

Charles Perkins, Cape Coral  

Public display of left-wing partisanship

The USA TODAY editorial board had a public display of left wing partisanship in their Sept. 3 editorial in the News-Press. "Where’s the leadership in Mattis book?" was literally apoplectic that former Defense Secretary James Mattis, in his new book, "Call sign Chaos: Learning to Lead," did not join the whining chorus of liberals in bashing President Trump. 

The partisan venom literally drips from the board’s outrage and frustration that Mattis took the high road and refused to criticize a sitting president, yet at the same time they bemoaned the current climate of partisanship in this country. What hypocrisy!

Mattis, showing his love for America, never crossed the lines of hypocrisy, disloyalty or dishonesty yet he was roundly criticized by the editorial board for not educating the American people on Donald Trump's faults.

Once again the liberal media is trying to tell the voter what to think and why. Who designated USA TODAY as the arbiter of the body politic? Their job is to report the news as it happens not tell voters what to think. Trump's presidency in itself is proof that the voters were sick of USA Today’s brand of fake news.

J F George, Sanibel

Gun lawsuits

To those suing the gun manufacturers over gun violence: I can only say they are thinking way too small.

Why stop with the gun manufacturers, who are just individual companies with limited financials, when you can sue the entire country of China for inventing gun powder to begin with?

Perhaps you can solve our national debt with China at the same time with the settlement?

David Liebenguth, Fort Myers 

Are we not that civilized?

I disagree with the writer of the letter titled "Answer to gun violence is common sense." The country does not need more guns and I do not need a mandate to get trained to kill.

Hunters should have their deer rifles and there should be licensed hand guns. AR-15s and other military weapons are not needed. Since they have been allowed, our country has been facing regular, violent, purposeless attacks.

I do not wish to kill anyone and would like to go back to when these weapons were not allowed. As the chance of being gunned down while tending to mundane activities in life increases, our freedoms decrease. I believe, in a vote, the majority would choose to have military weapons outlawed and turned in as in New Zealand. Are we not that civilized?

Sandy Schwartz, Cape Coral

Your vote does count

Our country ranks near the bottom in the number of people who vote in an election, either due to dissatisfaction with the candidates or the feeling that their vote doesn't matter or count.

If you are upset by the outcome of any election, take a look in the mirror if you elected not to go to the polls. Especially in equally divided states like Florida — it is even more imperative that you exercise your right and duty to vote.

Glenn Chenot, Cape Coral

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