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Editor,
In a recent (Sept. 12) letter, Lance Hames uses my prior letter to the editor (which mentioned the Trump administration one time) to vilify the President with hateful, inaccurate and unsubstantiated accusations characteristic of someone with the Trump Derangement Syndrome. I must respond.
Hames inaccurately characterizes Organizing for Action (OFA) as a benevolent charity, whereas their website’s stated objective is: “ Mobilizing activists (ie. Protesters) on behalf of progressive (ie. Socialist) issues and values” and continuing President Obama’s policies.
Hames apparently didn’t see the videos of the masked and hooded Antifa gang destroying property at University of California-Berkeley in protest of a conservative speaker. “Leftist Thugs” seems an appropriate name for them and is hardly racist.
President Trump’s ban on unvetted immigrants from terrorist-sponsoring countries (identified by the Obama administration) to protect US citizens was constitutional and upheld by the US Supreme Court. Comparing it to Hitler’s treatment of the Jews is irresponsible. Socialist George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew, survived Hitler by fingering other Jews for extermination by the Nazis and now supports left-wing protest groups like OFA and Move- On. What a guy.
Hames’s claim that Socialism is responsible for the American prosperity since WWII is laughable, if not delusional. However, the largest social welfare programs created, Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable and going broke (as Margaret Thatcher observed: “They are running out of other peoples' money”). In every country with a Single Payer government health care system, taxes have increased and health care is rationed. Sweden has a 25 percent national sales tax and 50 percent tax on incomes over $35, 000 a year to pay for their “free” healthcare, and still rations care. Is that what we want?
I agree with Mr. Hames on one issue: “Senator Jon Tester has not served Montana well. Too often he’s been in the pocket of big business and big money.” We deserve better and need to term-limit Tester.
Philip L. Barney
Polson
