Deal with victims
My coronary heart goes out to Theresa Bliss, whose son was brutally murdered (“Cease Ignoring Victims,” PostOpinion, June 3).
Ms. Bliss mentioned all of it so nicely, too: Lawmakers should cease ignoring the households whose youngsters have been senselessly murdered.
It’s past perception that lawmakers go to extremes to assist these despicable killers, whereas disregarding the agony of those devastated and heartbroken households, who will probably by no means recover from their excruciating tragedy.
It’s excessive time that public officers take a better take a look at what they’re doing on behalf of those horrible offenders and attain out to and assist these households, relatively than pander to those criminals. Sufficient is sufficient. And prayers to you, Ms. Bliss. I’m so very sorry to your loss.
Jeannie McDermott-Weldin, Dumont, NJ
Folly of Medicare
Re: “They’re Not Chopping Sufficient” (Editorial, June 4), after I turned 65, I used to be pleased with my personal insurance coverage, and had little need to enroll in Medicare, which, like Medicaid, is financially teetering.
But, I used to be informed that if I didn’t enroll in Medicare after I was 65, I might be penalized if I later opted for such protection. Thus, I reluctantly enrolled in Medicare and bought a non-public “supplemental” plan to cowl the gaps in Medicare protection.
I’ve questioned why the federal government would coerce individuals akin to myself to enroll in a financially pressured system after I was very happy to pay for my personal insurance coverage and thus not burden the federal government.
The reply most frequently given to me is that it was a part of a refined try to destroy personal medical insurance and thus to deliver a few “common” plan managed by the federal government, which individuals akin to Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez overtly advocate for.
That will be the identical authorities that has gotten us into this precarious place relating to the long-term viability of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Safety — plus an unsustainable nationwide debt.
Edward Hochman, Manhattan
ADL’s irrelevance
As an honorary lifetime member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Nationwide Fee, I’m in robust settlement with the premise of Kathryn Wolf’s glorious critique of America’s main Jewish organizations (“Mission drift,” PostScript, June 1).
I imagine that the ADL, for one, has not been fulfilling its unique mission from 1913 of preventing antisemitism in the USA.
Moderately, it engages in expensive, refined statistical analysis, however doesn’t focus sufficient on training.
Past that, it has involved itself inappropriately with Israeli politics, thus diminishing its give attention to US institutional and university-based antisemitism. The query is: How related have the main Jewish organizations been?
M.A. Fermaglich, Tenafly, NJ
Ernst’s pretend ‘sorry’
Sen. Joni Ernst appears to have dug her personal grave with a bonkers graveyard “apology” for her snarky and inappropriate “we’re all going to die” remark at her city corridor the day earlier than (“Senator in mock apology,” June 2).
In her ersatz mea culpa, she dissed the Tooth Fairy (?) and informed us to embrace her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
Ernst has in all probability given her saner and wiser opponent, Nathan Sage, the within observe in Iowa’s subsequent senatorial election. Even the Tooth Fairy would possibly agree with that.
Bob Canning, Petaluma, Calif.
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