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If The News-Press editorial board and its cadre of ex-Republican letter writers could closet their Trump-DeSantis anxiety for a moment, would someone please cry out against Lee Countys desecration of the Sanibel Causeway islands? Taxpayers are spending I dont know how many millions to basically destroy one of the few remaining Real Florida spots in the county.

Here, where any old Joe could park tailgate-to-shoreline and offload a kayak and cooler or drive out on the beach for a sunset cocktail in the old Firebird T-top for just the cost of the toll will soon become paid parking in restricted numbers. All in the name of erosion control and improvement. Okay, Ill say it. This stinks!

J. Taylor Buckley, Sanibel

How low can we go?

If you think that Bidens choice of VP Kamala Harris, or Secretary of State Blinken, or Secretary of DHS Mayorkas, or Secretary of Defense Austin, or Treasury Secretary Janice Yellen, are way in over their heads and have failed at every assignment thus far in this incompetent administration, wait until you see Bidens choice of Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova. This woman makes Bernie Sanders jump for joy. He only claims to be a Russian-favoring socialist, she is a true Russian-educated radical whose ideas on banking would turn Sanders' face red with embarrassment. She hates banks more thanElizabeth Warren. You can read more about her in the Wall Street Journal.

When Obama was elected he said he would fundamentally change the United States. In his eightyears he did much of what he promised by increasing and extending the socialist ideology. Trump reversed as many of Obamas missteps as was possible in his hectic fouryears. Now bumbling Joe, the puppet too amateurish and incompetent to be on "Sesame Street," having his strings pulled from the likes of Rice and Obama, is becoming even more outrageous. Pelosi recently said it is imperative that they pass the Obama agenda. Do we need any more proof?

Michael Zubrow, Naples

Some politicians are mistakenly defining items in upcoming legislation as socialism. The mistake has been around for a long time. More than 50 years ago, when I was a sophomore in a college economics class, the professor asked the class to write the definition of socialism in our notebook. All of us defined socialism as government control of industry. Wrong, according to the professor and Webster's dictionary. He stated socialism is not control but ownership of industry and means of distribution. Government programs providing benefits do not fit this definition.

Dave Pryal, Estero

This is rich, a letter writeris "offended"by a recent cartoon Get Fuzzy. I appreciate the email response pointing out the obvious that this is satire. Thank you editorfor trying to educate this contributor.

This is a cartoon! The human is silent for not calling out the cat for his "hate speech"?Perhaps this is the first time you've seen this panel. This cat generally always does things that are obviously wrong. Andthe docile dog, Satchel, is often the brunt of the cat's misplaced issues. Rob, the owner of these "pets,"often has to wade through all this crazy rhetoric.

Leave the comics alone. Mallard Fillmore is gone from The News-Press, Doonesbury, a very left-leaning panel, also gone from the editorial page. I understand the reason was to trim space for more letters to the editor.

The comic page is for fun, for jocularity, for a respite from the regular bad, disturbing, and sobering news that is presented daily. Stop looking for "hate speech"that isn't there, for "violence"that also isn't presented.

Michelle Birtley, Cape Coral

Im old enough to have seen almost every imaginable political stunt and hoax. The most recent canard regarding the economic fantasyland and utopian wishes in the $3.5 trillion billclearly takes the cake. Several Democrats have come out publicly to state that the $3.5 trillion will actually not cost anything. It will be free. And I thought Houdini was the the greatest magician of all time.

John McWilliams, Fort Myers

So let me see if I have this correct.The liberals running the country (into the ground, I might add) want changes made so that women have the right to decide what to do with their bodies when it comes to abortion, but at the same time the worthless Biden administration is ordering women to get vaccinated, otherwise they will lose their jobs, thus blackmailing them and taking away their choice as to what to do with their bodies.

This country under this administration is doomed.

Michael Adler, Miromar Lakes

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