I believe that today’s Democratic Party should change its name to “The Identitarian Party” because it has more and more become a collection of identity-groups who believe that the groups that they themselves happen to belong to and are a member of has been the most victimized and unjustly treated of all and should be…
NIH and CDC
Rob Natelson writes [in “Abolish the CDC and NIH,” published in the Nov. 3–Nov. 9 edition] that CDC has 11,000 “workers” and NIH has 20,000. He says the combined annual budgets for these bloated bastions of waste and excess total over $53 billion. Do you know what this is per employee? UNBELIEVABLE! J. Sexton Minnesota
No Peace in Our Time
The CCP’s maniacal raving overtaking Taiwan by whatever means is nothing less than a flashback to the Sudeten crisis of 1938, and if they ever succeed, there will be, without a doubt, no peace in our time. Best regards. Fred Bilello Nevada
Ponzi Is Still in Awe
In the letter in “The Readers’ Turn” for Oct. 27–Nov. 2, 2021, by Enid F. Rocourt of Arizona, Rocourt claims that it is incorrect to say that the money for Social Security does not go into the so-called Social Security trust fund, that it goes into Social Security and is then “borrowed” by the federal…
Investing Social Security
Go get your pocket calculator. In the meantime, kudos to The Epoch Times for allowing us to discuss the most important subject to about 75 percent of us (private-sector workers): our pensions, Social Security. The beginning Dow Jones average of equities on Jan. 1, 1975, was 632. Punch that into your calculator, divide by .092…
Social Security Payments
In the Oct. 27 edition of The Epoch Times, a letter appeared in “The Reader’s Turn” from an individual who claimed that he would never receive the full amount of his contribution from Social Security. That didn’t seem correct to me from my experience, so I checked my old Social Security statements of benefits and…
Social Security as Socialism
I read Ted Yaeger’s contribution “Social Security as Socialism” [in “The Readers’ Turn,” published in the Oct. 27–Nov. 2 edition]! I totally agree. Living in a free country but having no choice concerning an “opt-in or opt-out” of paying into Social Security, to me, is absolute socialism. Because there is no choice, many who pay…
Opinion From a Former Judge
I am a student of law whose age is 85. My first year of college was 68 years ago. One class I took was political science. A half-page of my textbook essentially outlined a few steps to overturn a democracy: Divide the nation philosophically. Foment racial strife. Cause distrust of police authority. Swarm the nation’s…
Understanding the Constitution
Rob Natelson’s articles on the U.S. Constitution have been very enlightening. It would be pleasing if he would expound on two items: The executive order has been used by all presidents since George Washington. What authorizes the use of this dictatorial device? The 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,…
Public Schools: From Unifiers to Dividers
America was a leader in providing free public schooling to all children. Many rulers feared the educated. America feared the ignorant. The Founding Fathers were resolute that democracy could only work with an educated electorate that could select qualified leaders. The “Three Rs” were important, but most important was critical thinking. People had to be…
US News
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