As Election Day draws near next Tuesday, we must look at the difference in the presidential candidates and their political parties.
Donald Trump has vilified immigrants with vile hate speech, child separation, and he’s OK with military razor-wire to slice people up. Our country was built with immigrants, many of us are children and grandchildren of immigrants. Trump torpedoed a compromise bipartisan immigration plan by Sen. James Lankford, a staunch conservative senator, to help fix the migrant problem!
Trump is anti-union, opposes the PRO-Act, and would cannonball the 40-hour workweek as outlined in his Project 2025. He loves tariffs, which we pay. He shafted around a thousand contractors out of $4 billion in his six different bankruptcies. He has been convicted of 34 felonies related to fraudulent business records. He increased the national debt by $8 Trillion in four years.
Those of us whose grandparents, parents fought for all the hard won benefits of the 40-hour work week, living wages, overtime pay, holiday pay, paid vacations, health care, and pensions, which also include Social Security and Medicare.
Trump is responsible for torpedoing Roe, without exceptions, and a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body.
He loves Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Victor Orban, and other fascist, autocratic dictators.
We must never forget he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection on our Capitol, (over false election claims) which resulted in several deaths, over 140 police injured, and nearly $3 million in damages.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz support fixing the immigration system (which Lankford’s plan did), they support unions, veterans, the PRO Act, restoring Roe and women’s reproductive rights, and tax cuts for working families making under $400,000.
They support teachers and public education and don’t ban books, like Republicans! Hitler and his brown shirts did that!
Harris, the Biden Administration, and Democrats have positively impacted our economy through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Safer Communities Bill, the CHIPS and Science Act, the American Rescue Plan, Veterans PACT Act, Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy investments, protected the Affordable Care Act (pre-existing conditions, kids stay on parent’s plan until 26 yrs. old), student debt relief, student  Pell Grant increases, and appointing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
They support democracy, rallied support for a free and democratic Ukraine, respect and honor our NATO, SEATO, and other treaty alliances for world peace.
As a veteran, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic, there is no other choice than to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for President and Vice President!
Bill Erzar
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