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Postal service

Dejoy of the US Postal Service, resigning in five years | February 19th

Maybe the new head of the US postal service will do what should have been done a few years ago. Twelve years ago, postal authorities estimated that by eliminating Saturday delivery, they would save $2 billion a year in fuel, personnel and other operating costs.

I didn’t receive the email on Monday, President’s Day, but nothing I received the following Tuesday was important. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I received a letter or package that I couldn’t wait for another day. One week of holiday proves to be very viable.

Joseph Brown, Tampa

Tzu listened again

America’s “Golden Age” begins with a balance budget February 19th

Senator Rick Scott’s plea for a balanced federal budget is more evidence of the tin ears of Republican leaders today. Again and again, Scott spits out the same poison on his spending. He is not opposed to a tremendous $4.1 trillion tax cut worth an estimated $500 million. He says $4.1 trillion is a “tax increase,” but that’s really a cut in federal forecast revenue, money that’s offset by massive cuts in almost every spending that Republicans spend, from veteran issues to hurricane recovery.

Scott and his colleagues need to hear the message: balance your budget, but do it by paying your fair share rather than stealing from us.

Stephen Phillips, St. Petersburg

Property Insurance

Research shows insurance risks | February 23rd

An elucidation article about Florida insurance companies. I continue to believe that the governor and lawmakers have nothing to do with insurance. I didn’t realize they were doing a lot, but that’s about helping the insurer affiliates and owners, not their members. However, the quote from Paul Handerhan, founder of the Federal Insurance Reform Association, a trade group that includes members, including insurance companies, was the best. He said, “No one of these people ever did this as a strategy.” So how did that happen? Did the money move on your own? Numbers don’t lie.

Angelimeson, St. Petersburg

Oil drilling

It’s time to ban offshore drilling | line, February 13th

Some readers seem to have a false notion of where US oil imports came from. Their view is an endless train of super tankers coming from the Middle East. The top five imports in the country are Canada (52%), Mexico (11%), Saudi Arabia (5%), Iraq (4%) and Brazil (3%). The US actually exports more oil than it imports. Of course, this information comes from the US Energy Information Agency, so Doge would rate it as highly suspicious.

Richard Thompson, Tarpon Springs

There’s no lie

Trump says Ukraine has begun a war killing its citizens | February 20th

I just want to set the record straight. Russia has invaded Ukraine. History doesn’t lie.

Gloria Daws, Sun City Centre

Trump warns Zelensky to quickly negotiate the end of the war | feeding. 19

I hope that President Donald Trump existed in 1941. He could have prevented war in the Pacific by giving up on a small part of the United States, like Hawaii. So it was really our fault that Japan attacked.

Carl Gieronka, Tampa

It’s difficult to swallow

Trump officials want to ban junk food from snaps | February 20th

So let’s see if I have this right. When secretaries of the Agriculture and Health and Human Services try to consider removing sweet drinks, candies and processed foods from snaps (also known as food stamps), detractors somehow think that it “destroys people’s autonomy and dignity.”

Maybe New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted a ban on sugar drinks over 16 ounces? Didn’t the Obama administration ban trans fats on almost every product?

Dear friends, are we serving a new nanny nation, good governance, or partisan politics? Whatever the answer is, this reader finds it difficult to swallow the aforementioned.

Mark Campbell, St. Petersburg

National Parks

Dismissal Ranger warned of chaos in national parks as musk’s fundamental cuts remove important services | February 22

The Trump administration’s idea of ​​cutting low-wage workers in national parks across the country, including Florida, is an ignorant stupidity that has a serious impact on Floridians.

Cutting down workers who picked up garbage and clean bathrooms in our national treasures would prevent American families from taking low-cost vacations to spectacular locations. With each trip to the national park, it stimulates local economic dollars in restaurants, motels and gift shops along with state taxes. The net effect is a huge loss for the local economy.

Reducing probation employees saves minimal dollars, but it deprives the federal government of low-cost training for young workers who can take up management and other jobs as older workers retire. It is also an alternative career route for those who do not go to university.

I remember a trip to a national park when I was a young boy. They instilled the pride of the nation and the love of God, nature, outdoors.

I’m amazed that Florida’s current Republican leaders aren’t crossing their arms about this. They either have no financial understanding at all, are afraid of conflict with Trump’s leadership, or both. Either way, they are causing great damage to Florida residents who they don’t think they care about.

Jim Levine, Merritt Island

I’m breaking up with America

America is disbanding and it’s all because of that. |Line, February 23rd

As the only remaining US-born brother of Canadian citizens who hold the green card, I sincerely support an accurate assessment of the current dilemma here in the US. I still believe our country comes to that feeling, but every day we slip further into even more brutal dictatorship. I want to continue supporting Ukraine. I would like to continue to complain about the government’s unconditional support for Israeli Zionism. I want to continue to condemn Hamas’ atrocities. I would like to continue my membership in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Health Organization, the Climate Agreement and, most specifically, my friendship with my continental neighbours, Canada and Mexico.

It’s getting difficult, as Pete McMartin is outlined so elegantly in his column. I ask you that you keep us in your mind, that you will ultimately reject President Donald Trump’s retaliatory fuel administration and will definitely need your support.

Your friends in America

Paul E. Ullett, Spring Hill

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