Elaine Harkins writes that she finds anti-Trump bias in editorials and presidential election coverage.
To the Editor:
In the South Jersey Times' Sept. 12 print edition, you printed a long editorial from the Star-Ledger of Newark criticizing Donald Trump's comments on sex assaults in the military.
Yet. I found not a word in the Sept. 10, 11 or 12 print edition about Hillary Clinton's comment about half of Trump's supporters being a "basket of deplorables." She made the statement during a Sept. 9 fund-raiser with her elitist friends who all laughed, clapped and cheered at the comment.
Then, to add insult to injury, the Times devoted much space on Sept. 12 to the health episode Clinton had at the 9/11 memorial service. She had been diagnosed days earlier with previously undisclosed pneumonia. Maybe she should have skipped that big fund-raiser with her friends.
There is really a double standard in your paper. Be fair, if you can.
Elaine Harkins
Glassboro
Democrats betray American workers
To the Editor:
For the last 40 years, American industry moved to foreign lands and foreign labor came into America.
Where were the unions in this transference of labor?
Yes, labor unions did much for the worker 100 years ago. But union leadership no longer even mentions the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of cheaper foreign labor.
The Democrat Party has turned its back on the American worker and has sided with the employers who want cheaper labor. This is betrayal that I will never stop talking about. And the unions will still support Hillary Clinton, who is controlled by the global financial interests.
Wall Street hates Donald Trump because he wants to raise import tariffs. Since U.S. companies have moved their production overseas, an increase in tariffs would reduce Wall Street profits. This is the real reason Wall Street is throwing millions at Clinton.
The Democrats and the union leaders will talk much about education, health care, transportation and public worker pensions. Their economic philosophy is that government spending will solve the economic problem. But they forget that government draws its revenue from the private sector.
Raising import tariffs would revitalize American manufacturing and restricting immigration would cause a scarcity of workers that would cause wages to increase.
Instead, the unions want to focus on government work. We cannot all get government jobs. But those who do will become the new ruling class of a socialist society. And, these public-sector workers will use their political power to enslave the private-sector workers.
Lee Lucas
Gibbstown
Nothing fair about Christie school aid plan
To the Editor:
Gov. Chris Christie has been calling his state school aid funding proposal a "fairness formula," but it's actually the opposite of fair.
Taking away resources from poor school districts and transferring them to wealthier districts, as his flat statewide per-student amount would do, is not fair at all. The issue with school funding is not the current formula, it is the fact that the state has refused to fund it fully. That's why so many districts are experiencing so much pain.
A faulty line of thinking behind Christie's plan is that wealthier districts will cut local property taxes taxes as because they will get additional state aid that comes from less-wealthy districts. I can't imagine anyone actually believes that.
To take away resources from a district like Kingsway Regional that genuinely needs them in order to finance some fantasy tax break in a place like Cherry Hill is incredibly wrong-minded on many levels.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney has offered a better proposal that would more equitably fund districts, since a vast number of them currently receive less aid than they should, based on the formula. That is the right idea, and that is the fair thing to do.
Jean Garozzo
Woolwich Township
Can't wait for self-driving vehicles
To the Editor:
I heard on the news that traffic fatalities were up last year, and that there are pending federal rules to require that heavy trucks be equipped with speed limiter controls, and mandate their use on trucks that already have them.
When self-driving cars and trucks take over the roads, traffic deaths will go down and speed will be automatically controlled. Everyone will stay in his or her lane, nobody will be speeding, tailgating or cutting in and out of traffic. Never again will I get "the finger" for not going fast enough.
I can hardly wait!
Harry Walker
Pitman
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