Smooth ride

Dear Editor,

I would like to offer a “shout out” to the Transit Authority of Warren County bus services offered to seniors. Recently I had my driver’s license suspended for one year due to a medical situation. Although it has since been restored, initially it was devastating, unexpected news.

Feeling frustrated, and angry, I was determined to not be discouraged. Instead I hiked immediately to the TAWC office to set up bus services to accommodate my monthly activities. The office staff person (Diane), courteously advised me and set up my schedule. I used the service for approximately one year, scheduling the TAWC bus eight to 15 times a month and this made my situation more tolerable. Every staff person and all the bus drivers were pleasant, thoughtful and helpful to me (and others on the bus). The buses were clean and the drivers were helpful to those needing extra attention using walkers, wheelchairs. The drivers were always friendly to the passengers.

This experience was a positive one for me to observe the variety of reasons people were using this service…including: medical appointments, rehab, getting to jobs, shopping, lunching with friends, exercising at the “Y” and those who were just not comfortable driving. A bus is also scheduled to take people to Erie shopping. It is a great service that we are lucky to have in this area .

My generous appreciation to all the authority staff for making this past year tolerable for me plus it was a pleasure to meet so many impressive drivers offering so much kindness to so many.

Connie Lucia,

Youngsville

Family is foundation

Dear Editor,

A Jan. 5 editorial notes “Political foundation needs improving.” Dig deeper! John Winthrop in 1630 spoke of The City on a Hill to the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Colony as an exceptional colony with a bright future if we keep our promises of a New World covenant with God. This promise begins in the family and must be maintained by the family. The ultimate foundation referred to by City on a Hill is now failing thus resulting in all major issues being battled on the political front.

To adhere to the wisdom of Winthrop and George Washington in his Farewell Address, is the important foundation needed. Technology is blinding us to the basics of humanity necessary to avoid failure. We may soon suffer the embarrassment of failure of the exceptional status for which our forefathers hoped.

Charles S. Merroth,

Warren

Backing a dictator?

Dear Editor,

In a recent interview on Fox News, Donald J. Trump stated emphatically that if re-elected president that on his first day in office he would be a dictator for a day.

Come on Trump, do your MAGA crowd a favor, and be a dictator for four years. Only you can Make America Great Again.

For your information it’s already great. Yet, our country has had enough of democracy. Our founding fathers predicted that “A well instructed people alone can be permanently a free people,” James Madison said.

Is our Constitution just a bunch of stupid and outdated words? Is free speech hogwash? A well regulated militia hogwash? Religious freedom hogwash?

Unreasonable personal searches hogwash? Speedy and public trials hogwash?

Excessive bail? Judicial power?

Trump said that soldiers who fought for our democracy were a bunch of losers. Sen. John McCain, a distinguished veteran, was another loser. Convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionaries are hostages. And you Trump, the epitome of draft dodgers, is the only losing “patriot” who never served in the United States military. Wow! Great job former Commander-In-Chief!

Throughout our distinguished history no person running for president has ever said that he would be a dictator.

Any voter, despite their political affiliation, should be concerned and deeply troubled about our precious democracy when a person who expressed a dictator philosophy runs for office. Reminds me of Hitler, Stalin, etc. GO TRUMP! Our way of life and our constitution is at risk should you be elected president.

However, your MAGA friends want their current freedoms subjected to a dictator. Really?

Enjoy what you vote for MAGA conspirators and share your domestic tranquility with each other provided you have any left, if the lying, poisonous Trump is elected president.

Wake up folks, or sleep soundly for four years or more just like Rip Van Winkle did.

M.J. Shanshala,

Warren

Forgetting malfeasance

Dear Editor,

Forget the fact that Donald Trump’s charity was a fraud. Forget the fact that Trump University was a fraud.

Forget the fact that Trump hoarded a ton of classified documents in a public restroom at Mar-a-Lago. Forget the fact that he added trillions to our national debt.

Forget the fact that he made $5.5 million from China while President of the United States. Forget all that, it’s probably just left-wing propaganda anyway!

But, just consider what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and what was laid out by the January 6* Committee (which 90% of Republicans likely didn’t watch!) chronologically and articulately by Republican Liz Chaney with sworn testimony, and highlighted graphics of e-mails, and text messages, and audio and video recordings clearly pointing out a conspiracy to throw the election to Trump!

All of it hinged on one man, Mike Pence, who had the moral courage to do the right thing. Since that hearing more than twice the evidence has come forth to prove Trump conspired with Mark Meadows, John Eastman and others to overthrow an election! And now there are those who wish to put this man in charge of our country again!

What is the definition of insanity?

Allan L. Gustafson,

Warren

No penalty for Trump

Dear Editor,

It’s a fool’s errand to believe there is anything Donald Trump can say or do that would disqualify him for the presidency. Examples: calling women pigs; making fun of their menstrual cycle; bragging about grabbing women by the private areas; degrading other, telling black people to go back where they come from; making fun of John McCain for not being a war hero because he was captured; insulting Gold Star families, and calling members of our armed services “suckers. I could go on and on.

The voters think these remarks were not bad enough to warrant not voting to let him have the nuclear codes.

In my opinion, those voters owe all of us an apology, an apology that will never come. Inevitably, history will put aside the pomp and circumstance of the blatant destructiveness of these kinds of comments, and he will be labeled as one of the most corrupt and deviant people that have ever been elected to the Office of the Presidency.

Therefore, the text of history will be written, that in those fateful days of Trump and his cult members, institutions and norms have been damaged, but not Irreparably. The days of Trump will be a forgotten memory, and his cult members will tarry forward in shame and in the fullness of time, so it goes.

As noted by Plato, “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Michael R. Olson,

Warren