OPINION:
Members of Congress, you are strangling the citizens of the United States of America with your outrageous ego battles among one another, each attempting to gain some supercilious triumph over your enemy, who is simply a member of the other political party. You have lost sight and purpose of what it is you have been elected to do, which is serve the people of this country. What you are doing instead is simply trying to build your own personal political bases — at the cost of the American populace and the United States economy.
Regarding the Mexico-U.S. border wall, those of you in leadership positions are not showing any leadership, only partisanship and self-interest. You are looking like fools for reversing your own positions from as little as 10 years ago, when you appeared at podiums of the House and Senate espousing such a control. But now with a president who is ready to build it, you stonewall not the border but him.
And Mr. President, you need to be much less petulant. Stop acting like a spoiled brat. This country cannot respond to that kind of behavior, so work with the people you don’t like as well as the ones you like. And stop embarrassing the people who work directly for you. Make them faithful to you.
It’s not a bad time to build the wall. Frankly, the cost is probably less than that of all the personnel it will take to properly patrol a border without a wall. We have paid for similar protections in other countries such as Lebanon, Israel and more.
We also must have the government return to full operation, and government workers return to full employment and salaries. You 536 in Washington do not see or experience what is happening, but you have created a critical slowdown in our economy which is quickly growing and can have devastating long-term effects. This must be ended.
TOM O’HARA
Sharon, Conn.
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