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To the editor:
Democrats say:
• "Our borders are secure." Over 100,000 Americans die from fentanyl each year. Last year, our Bureau of Narcotics Investigation seized more fentanyl than they had in the last four years combined. Pennsylvania State Police reported that its officers confiscated more fentanyl in July, August and September than it did during all of last year; we lose 15 Pennsylvanians each day to drug overdose.
Pennsylvania has the highest violent crime rate of any state in the Northeast. Philadelphia now has the highest murder rate in the country per capita of the country's 10 largest cities. Every single day 18 million people in America are victims of sex trafficking. As a hub for human trafficking, Pa. ranks 4th nationwide in human trafficking prosecutions. When it comes to human trafficking, the highest cost is the moral cost that is imposed on those who do not act to prevent it.
• "We now have a manpower shortage because we are not having enough babies." "We need more workers to support Medicare and Social Security." What about the 95 million babies we murdered over the past 50+ years and what they could have contributed to society? No problem, we just give the millions of illegals citizenship and encourage them to have children.
• "China is our friend." Texas Scorecard reported in September that a Chinese investment firm shelled out $1.3 billion to buy giant oil fields in Texas, has purchased over 100,000 acres, and is building the electrical grid for Texas. These deals are not innocent business transactions; they are well-planned, methodical inroads to access American energy. Same in Oklahoma. Soon they will control our electric grid, unwanted oil and natural gas fields and refineries here in America.
• "Supply chain is affecting our food supply and global warming is causing our water problem." Iowa's senator warned that foreign buyers were snatching up prime U.S. farmland to "dominate food production." Foreign-owned farmland in the West increased from around 1.25 million acres in 2010 to three million acres in 2020 (China 194,000 acres, Venezuela 28,000, Saudi Arabia 19,000, Germany 1.2 million, France 644,000 and Switzerland 313,000. In 2018, Saudi Arabia banned the growing of thirsty crops like alfalfa and hay to feed livestock and cattle due to climate change-fueled drought. They then turned to America.
PBS reports that "Arizona is leasing farmland to a Saudi water company, straining aquifers, and threatening future water supply in Phoenix." Foreign Nations are using our land and water from our aquifers and Lake Meade for irrigation to grow alfalfa for "their" animals, grains for "their" animal feed, and food for "their" people.
• "No new oil leases and we're shutting down all 200 coal plants moving to solar and wind." President Biden ... announced a climate deal that will send Indonesia $20 billion over the next three-to-five years to push the country to shut down its coal plants.
The new norm!
Arthur Keller
Beavertown