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BART ‘options’ are
unrealistic, naive
Re: “BART wants driverless trains: VTA ought to halt S.J. extension” (Web page A6, Might 19).
Marc Joffe affords a number of the most naïve and unrealistic options for “fixing” BART’s operational and monetary woes that I’ve seen but.
First, he makes a broad, and false, assumption that funding for capital initiatives (like Section II of the BART extension) might simply be reappropriated to operational funding. That cash is basically tied up and can’t be distributed by way of a system that goes by way of so many counties and cities.
Second, automating BART can be a large capital expenditure that isn’t price endeavor for a brief labor scarcity. Retrofitting BART to be automated would value billions, particularly contemplating that BART is receiving new rolling inventory, and robbing the area of many of fine jobs for working-class Californians.
Lastly, stripping again retirement advantages is laughable. Individuals who dedicate their lives to offering an important service, like transportation, ought to be capable of retire comfortably.
Jacob Atkins
Chicago, Illinois
GOP cuts would hobble
the U.S. economic system
Numerous folks will lose jobs and native companies will endure if the funds cuts that Home Republicans are proposing undergo.
Chief Economist Mark Zandi at Moody’s Analytics has warned of gradual development, job loss and a higher chance of recession if the proposed cuts are imposed. The damaging impacts are wide-reaching — those that obtain Social Safety could miss funds. Veterans could not obtain advantages, and folks might lose well being care.
With the economic system already in a precarious place, can we actually afford main disruptions to folks’s lives?
Our senators and representatives do must take motion on the deficit, however refusing to pay our payments and placing a halt to the economic system will hurt native companies and the monetary safety of individuals greater than assist.
Danica Berry
San Francisco
Republican candidates
co-opting Christianity
Re: “Whose model of Christian nationalism will win in 2024?” (Web page A7, Might 17).
I’m re-reading the column on which model of Christian nationalism will prevail: Donald Trump’s or Ron DeSantis’.
Neither is Christian. Christianity is the assumption in and trustworthy following of Jesus Christ in accordance with his instructing within the Gospels as discovered within the Christian Scriptures. Jesus Christ gave his followers one fundamental command: “Love others as I’ve beloved you.” Not one of the values of Christ’s sacrificial love are mirrored within the campaigns of Trump or DeSantis.
So let’s name it one thing else, something however Christian nationalism.
Rosemary Everett
Campbell
Some in U.S. searching for
to ban actions, ideas
A wiser individual than me mentioned one thing like this: “In life, you solely have management over three issues: What you say, what you do and what you consider it.” That’s not true in all places in the US. Information are usually not revered or absolutely allowed to be taught in each faculty in the US.
