LETTER: Five ironies in U.S. policy, politics

Galesburg Register-Mail
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Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor

Editor, Register-Mail: 1. Why is the Biden administration considering offering $450,000 or a family maximum of $1,000,000 to illegal immigrants whose families may or not be separated, yet we offer nothing to the many hundreds of legal immigrants coming, at no small cost to them in money and paperwork, from central and western Africa and who are keeping us fed by working 40-60 hours a week in the poultry and pork producing factories throughout the Midwest and South? It’s this latter group that should be getting the bonus, if anyone, is it not?

2) How does the U.S. shutting down a handful of coal producing plants produce any reduction in global warming while the United Nations allows China and India to bring on new new coal producing plants by the hundreds? China and Russia didn’t even attend the recent Global Warming conference.

3) How does the Biden administration's symbolic, yet costly, shutting down both of the Keystone Pipeline and the prohibition of drilling on public lands reduce global warming while at the same time it begs OPEC and Russia to ramp up their oil production and also allows Russia to complete its pipeline into Western Europe? How does driving up our retail cost of gasoline from $2.30 to $3.65 a gallon while encouraging oil and gas production elsewhere help reduce global warming?

4) How is it fair or just to threaten employees with loss of jobs for not vaccinating, while it was these very same employees who worked during the pandemic while unvaccinated bringing to us food, healthcare and police and fire protection? Aren't they more deserving of some of the $450,000 bonuses being offered to illegal immigrants that are scheduled to start at the end of the month?

5) Wouldn't it have been more "wokefully" consistent for the MLB, who removed the All Star game from Atlanta because of its voting law, to then mandate that the three Atlanta Braves home World Series games to be played in Minneapolis or Seattle. Just wondering. — Dick Conklin, Galesburg

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