‘Fine-tuned’ administration needs to be 'fine-tuned' (again)

f, as President (Donald) Trump says, “My administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,” how come there’s such a “yuuuge” turnover?

It seems there are a lot of loose screws that have to be tightened. 

Instead of running like a 2018 Cadillac, the current administration sounds more like a 1908 Model-T Ford with disastrous domestic and foreign policies to match!  

Finally, ‘midst the firings and resignations of key department heads, President Trump sees it as “new energy” while the rest of America views it as “total chaos” with no end in sight!

Claim of most cost-efficient energy options called wrong

Last month the Daily Planet ran a front-page story reporting Stuart Weidie’s remarks touting natural (methane) gas, supplemented by rooftop solar, as the most cost-efficient means to heat and cool buildings. He is wrong.

The environmental and health costs of continuing to rely on fracked gas as a source of energy production in this country will only grow. Any expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in our country simply extends our downward spiral toward rapid climate disruption.

The Council of Independent Business Owners, of course, care about their energy expenses. But numerous research studies report that the cost of clean renewables like wind and solar has plummeted in recent years.

The New York Times wrote in 2014 that “in some markets, renewable generation is now cheaper than coal or natural gas.” Recently, Clean Technica newsletter reported that solar and wind power have become over 60 percent cheaper in the last seven years.

We don’t actually have to choose between low prices or jobs or protecting our air, water and climate. Sunshine and wind, of course, are free, but distributed solar and wind power plants have to get built and installed — those are things humans do, creating local jobs.

Tongue-in-cheek utterance? Silver linings from shootings

Like it or not, the bottom line is that as long as the housing supply is limited by environmental concerns — in Parkland, Sandy Hook, Columbine and Asheville — every school shooting will result in more housing for the rest of us, as will every deportation.

And death by homelessness is slow. 

End apathy, student urges; vote for Price for Congress

We, as North Carolinians, have entered an era of restrictive practices centered around limiting our ability to decide governance.

Our districts are gerrymandered in order to keep one party in power.

We elected officials that ensure their power by neutralizing our votes and refuse to work with each other. 

We must take action in this upcoming election. We cannot allow ourselves to stay apathetic. We cannot allow our votes to be weakened by calloused politicians who work tirelessly to ensure their own power. 

The 10th and 11th districts need fresh blood; new perspectives that have not been jaded by the power dynamics and party squabbles.

First-time candidates offer this perspective. We have a duty to research our candidates and vote for who we believe is the best fit, if we do not actively engage in the political system, we will only see the expansion of these power controlling tactics.

Access to health care; prison reform; equality regardless of gender, race or sexuality; and infrastructural repair are all important issues to me, so the candidate I will vote into U.S. Congress is Phillip Price.

You must find the right candidate for you to promote real change in our state.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ferry noted in submitting his letter to the editor that “I’m a 22-year-old student who lives in Asheville, in the 11th District of North Carolina.”

It’s time to tax the rich and spread the wealth in the U.S.

Politics in this country has reached the point where I would be shocked if any candidate for the U.S. House or Senate showed the courage to support a national wealth tax of 25 percent on all individuals worth $10 million or more.

Here’s what we could do with that revenue:

1. Eliminate the federal budget deficit and the national debt.

2. Pass a Canadian-style national health insurance program to cover all Americans.

3. Turn student loans into scholarships.

4. Make Social Security fully solvent  beyond the current date of 2034. 

5. Supplement the unequal pay for equal work that women do in this country to bring it up to what men get paid.

6. Help working families pay day-care expenses for their children and elderly family members.

7. Guarantee jobs to all Americans that will pay enough to lift them above the official poverty line and the official “near-poverty” line.

And, there would still be money left over!

This is how much wealth that there is in this country. Eighty percent of all of the wealth in the USA was never earned by those who hold it — it was inherited. It grows and grows into tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and into the billions.

No one could possibly ever need that much money.  Yet, I can’t find one Democrat in either house of Congress who supports a national wealth tax. 

Someone should write a book and call it “Profiles In Cowardice.”

They’re supposed to care about helping the people more than they care about raising millions of dollars so that they can win re-election.

Fired FBI Director James B. Comey said that President (Donald) Trump was “not fit to be president because of his moral values” and that they did “not reflect the values of this country.”

Problem is, America has departed from God and is going against His Moral Values, set forth in His Laws. 

Through the years, American has become morally corrupt!

If we apply God’s Moral Values, Trump’s opponent was definitely not fit for that office because of her ungodly values. She strongly supports things that are abomination to God. Things like same-sex marriage, and the mass murder of unborn babies.  

God directed the death penalty for those two bridges of His Law — on others, too, including adultery.

America is in great danger of being condemned and destroyed by God because of moral corruption.

In the Word of God, the Holy Bible, He left several examples of His judgment of several nations, including his precious chosen people, the nation of Israel.    

Back then, Israel, like America, abandoned God. They were throwing their children in the fire as sacrifice to idol gods. But now we/America tear our unborn children out of the womb. Both are crimes against God and humanity.

Because God considered homosexual acts a “very grievous sin,” he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and two other city-states.

Our Creator is a patient, very loving and forgiving God. But He will say that enough is enough, at some point!