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Editor:
When is a dollar not a dollar? When it’s only worth 98 cents — and you’ve just lost your job.
Since January 2025, over half a million people have lost their jobs to DOGE, tariffs and a slowing economy. Meanwhile, tax cuts for billionaires and rising costs of housing, food, energy and health care push the rest of us closer to the brink of despair.
These are not “normal” numbers: for instance, according to recent articles in Forbes and Retail Dive, tech job losses are up 36% over 2024; retail job losses are up 249%. And those numbers are going to get worse as Trump’s tariffs kick into high gear. When the cost of basic goods forces more of us to make painful choices, more businesses will close — and more jobs will be lost. All while Trump spends $200 million on a golden ballroom, $1 billion on a golden jet, and $1 million per day while he golfs at Mar a Lago (21 days in the first 6 months of 2025 alone).
What can we do? Hit. The. Streets. Change will happen when politicians of both parties fear losing their seats unless they fight the far-right agenda.This Labor Day, join your neighbors at a “Workers Over Billionaires” march, sign-waving or other demonstration. (Find one near you at www.mobilize.us.) Let’s remind them — in a voice too loud to ignore — that they took an oath to work for the people, not for the rich.
Otherwise, we might as well burn our dollar bills for heat.
Sandy Labyris
Shoreline
Your comments make it very clear which political party you prefer. You have a right to make choices. But I would ask you to remember Biden giving BILLIONS of dollars worth of army equipment to the Afghans when he did a very poor job of pulling out of Afghanistan. AND remember all the people in that country that were left behind to a sure and very painful death. I wonder if this country would be in a much better financial position if that and all the other decisions he had made were different. Like- how much did we taxpayers have to pay for all the times democrats sued Trump and lost. How much many billions did that cost us-the taxpayers? Do you have any idea what court costs are now days? It is like a business on the verge of collapsing. The really hard thing to do is get it straightened out again. And that is a very difficult job. That is what Trump is doing in our country. BLESS HIM
I just have to point out you answered none of the writer’s question. Instead of going to “what party you belong to” I’d rather read a substantive factual response from people like yourself who interpret the facts differently, not bluster and a denying of facts.