TO THE EDITOR:
"All bets are off and all hell breaks loose." This is what happens when an "outsider" has the unmitigated gall to run for and win an "insider"position.
I have been here seven and one half decades (75 yrs) and find myself confused as a "run-over dog" as
I try to come to grips with everything happening, especially this impeachment of President Trump.
It appears the main characters in this play are Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party with the theme being something called "quid pro quo." The dictionary defines this as "something for something." This sounds to me like an
ordinary business transaction - gas station, "give me twenty dollars and
you can pump twenty dollars of gas," or "work for me and I will pay you," etc.
Several years back Vice President Joe Biden made a stop at a fundraiser near New Boston. The event was held by an attorney who handled the tobacco settlement in Federal Court in Texarkana. The minimum ticket was $35,000. To revisit the above, "give Joe Biden $35,000.00 and you can eat barbecue with him." Is that "quid pro quo"?
The next point I think I figured out with some help from a local tobacco shop owner. The price of a package of cigarettes in 1975 was sixty cents. The price today is $7.60. Where is this money going? Not to the store owner but to the attorneys and entities in the above lawsuit. The owner says cigarettes go up in price twice a year when these designated payments are due.
A while back I stopped at a convenience store to get gas. I noticed an older car at the pump next to me with three or four ill dressed small children. When I entered the store a young woman paid $30.00 for a carton of cigarettes, $25.00 for a case of beer, $20.00 for a scratch-off ticket, $5.00 for gas. When we were pumping gas she complained about the price of gas. One of the children asked her is she brought them some food. She said "I will buy some groceries when they put money on my (food stamp) card."
The above is not an isolated incident and proves all the promises by the "powers that be" that the promises of created wealth by new sales hurts the ones that can least afford it!
Chester Pinkham
New Boston, Texas