Letter: Who Can We Trust?

As we wait for Florence to finish her path of destruction, and her devastating aftermath, we have to brace ourselves for the response of a FEMA that is besieged by scandal, and handicapped by a recent budget cut to pay for the expansion of ICE.

Yes, in order to fund a poorly thought-out immigration policy — a policy that is crushing Pennsylvania’s mushroom industry because of worker shortages — the current administration has raided FEMA, just as we are warned of more and more severe storms in the future.

And the congressional Republicans, many of them with constituents in affected areas, or in areas likely to be impacted, said nothing, and went along. They don’t care about their constituents; they’re motivated by power.

Now there are news reports of their desire to raid Social Security and Medicare to pay for their tax cuts. Is it true? People who can raid FEMA ahead of hurricane season are capable of anything.

Your representative stood by and allowed FEMA to be raided. It’s time for us to vote out Glenn Thompson, Tom Marino — and this entire current crop of Republican congressmen — before they destroy our country. 

Adriana Pena