OPINION

Health care, bay cleanup are at risk

As long as the Republicans are in power, our country will continue to decline globally.

GEOFF SMOOT
READER

Perhaps when we hear “Red State” now, it takes on new meaning as more information emerges on conservative connections to Russia and the anti-American stance of GOP legislators who support the Trump agenda.

Rep. Andy Harris refuses to hold a live town hall and hides behind the gimmicky online Town Hall format.

The new cabinet secretaries who have most to do with the environment have stated opposition to acknowledging or fighting global warming and the dangers of carbon dioxide to the quality of our air.

President Trump and his supporters like Harris mock regulations that protect our Chesapeake Bay and similar landmarks.

Local Trump supporters ignore facts. They kowtow to Trump’s lies and show no moral courage, denying the importance of the behavior of the president as it reflects upon our youth.

Children listen as their parents support these lies. What will be the legacy of this generation when health care for the poor disappears because Republicans say it is more important to the poor to buy cellphones than buy health insurance?

Nowhere in the economically developed world does free enterprise work effectively to supply health care to the populace.

READ MORE:  Trump proposal would slash bay cleanup funds 90 percent

Do you like the proposed ACA replacement plan?

It won’t work here either. One day we must go to single-payer or Medicare for all in order to compete economically on the world stage.

But as long as the Republicans are in power, our country will continue to decline globally. It will soon be 2018 – and time to begin ridding ourselves of the GOP menace.

Geoff Smoot

Hebron

Harris recently announced he will be available in person during a town hall meeting at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills to be held Friday, Mar. 31, 6-7 p.m. – Editor