LETTERS: Colorado in complete chaos; government decision making
Colorado in complete chaos
For those people that live in Colorado that think everything is OK in Colorado are living in a bad Dream.
In the last decade the liberal progressives have deliberately destroyed our way of life in Colorado. Closing the Denver Coliseum to the taxpayers of Colorado to house the homeless shows how successful the mayor’s homeless program is working. Taxpayers pay for that. As the illegals take over the city they are demanding work permits.
As stated, many times Jared Polis has made our state a sanctuary state. Now the taxpayers must bear the burden of supporting them. Colorado is already an unaffordable place to live yet the elected officials keep digging us into a deeper hole. Next the liberial progressives will want the illegals to work and vote. That way after all the damage to the STATE and taxpayers they can keep control of the elected officials. These policies are bankrupting our health care system. The border needs to be closed!
While our elected officials are on duty working diligently on the state’s business to provide security and safety to the taxpayers, Oh wait, they are busy writing articles for a cease fire in the Gaza Strip. Let’s not forget the recent bill to create another government bureaucracy to hammer on pet owners. Did you know in Colorado it’s easier to get and abortion than it is to adopt a pet?
We still don’t know what our property taxes will be. But it ain’t gonna be pretty. You would think the fools running the State would be working on getting us tax relief. Nope, they are too busy spending more money we don’t have.
Highways and streets are in total disarray. Yet they continue to maintain and build more bike paths and displace automobile travel for the taxpayers. RTD is a total wreck.
The State of Colorado is in total chaos due to the self-induced policies by Polis and all of his ilk.
Trig Travis
Aurora
Terrible health outcomes
There’s a major threat to Medicare buried in the laundry list of far-right policies that Donald Trump is using as his playbook if he’s reelected. If Trump wins in November, he’s planning to severely undermine traditional Medicare by making private Medicare Advantage plans the default program for everyone who is newly eligible.
These private plans have great profit outcomes for the insurance companies, but terrible health outcomes for the actual patients. Medicare Advantage plans regularly deny coverage for essential treatments and services, forcing patients to forgo the care they need.
Our tax dollars should not be used to pad the pockets of insurance CEOs, especially at the expense of seniors and people with disabilities. But Trump has always prioritized people over profits.
Over 65 million Americans rely on Medicare for their health care, and over 400,000 people become newly eligible each year.
Their health and lives are at stake in the November election.
We can’t give him the chance to completely privatize Medicare.
The message from voters to Donald Trump should be clear: Leave Medicare alone.
Robert Renfro
Denver
Government decision making
When are we going to put a stop to government decision making, which is invariably wrong for America? Since we are ostensibly a free country, what’s preventing the Free Market being the primary decision maker? It is usually correct for all citizens, and even when it is not, it is self-correcting, unlike government decisions, which we can never eliminate no matter how bad they are.
Take the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 which put bureaucrats in place focused only on perfect safety, and not on how to make nuclear power widely available to the country, providing inexpensive energy, reduced pollution and many other benefits.
Or take, the government’s bet on electric cars, which the market could do much better and at no cost to taxpayers. Or the creation of the Energy and the Education departments, doing no good but costing us money and impossible to get rid of. The list is very long.
But the free market poses a threat to government, because they cannot control it, as it is the freedom of millions of people making billions of individual decisions for mutual benefit. This, more than any other reason, is what made America great. Do you want the government making decisions for you and not individuals like you making those decisions for yourself? Think hard about this, because what you support is critical to the success of America and its citizens.
Erik Lessing
Monument
Shelter residents sit outside to smoke and get some air while staying at the Denver Coliseum on Thursday.