Letter to the Editor:

Many Americans are ignoring what Donald Trump caused to happen on January 6. Instead, they are focusing on the economy and immigration, but if they took the time to do some fact-finding, they would learn, contrary to the propaganda on some internet sites and other media, that the economy and immigration are reasons why they should vote for Kamala Harris.

Regarding our economy, the stock market is at a record high because President Joe Biden’s policies allowed us to avoid a recession after Covid, even though a recession was predicted by many economists.

Covid has caused a great deal of inflation and Biden has worked hard to reduce it from 8 percent in 2022 to an average annual rate of 2.4 percent in September of this year. We have a tendency to blame who is in power at the time, but Biden could not control the increase in our food prices, because he is our president and not a dictator. 

Even though Covid meant the loss of many manufacturing jobs, Biden’s policies have resulted in us having more manufacturing jobs at the present time than under former president Donald Trump. In auto parts and manufacturing employment, that number dropped by 8,800 during Trump’s term, but in the first three years of Biden’s term, he increased those types of jobs by 128,000.

Regarding immigration on our southern border, keep in mind that we have laws or guidelines pertaining to asylum, and our Statue of Liberty symbolizes America being a place for those individuals needing a safe place to live.  America is a nation built on laws and we cannot allow a candidate who appeals to white supremacists to target immigrants as a means to help him get elected. We should accept people of color in a similar manner that our country accepted immigrants from Europe and Ireland in the past.

Joe Czarnecki