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Congress must solve
health care affordability
Congress should make up its mind about continuing Obamacare or similar medical coverage plans. This will give real hope to the public, whose premiums will more than double very soon. Lack of medical coverage puts a strain on emergency rooms and staff, not to mention the patients’ own dire health situations.
It’s only a matter of decency for Congress to take care of this “affordability” crisis.
Celeste McGettigan
San Jose
Shorter-term loan keeps
money in your pocket
Re: “50-year loans won’t solve housing crisis” (Page A6, Nov. 28).
For many, one goal is to enter retirement debt-free.
If you can, when you can, look at a 15-year home loan, not a 50-year loan. After just a few short years, you will see a major impact on the principal. A 50-year home loan is a trap. It may have its place, but it fills the pockets of others, not yours.
The initial pain of a slightly higher mortgage, if you can make it happen, is worth the gain.
Barden Asquith
Campbell
Reiner post is evidence
of Trump’s decline
There is something very wrong with Donald Trump.
Following his social media post on the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, no one with any humanity or empathy can doubt that Trump is sick in more ways than one. His mental deterioration in the first year of his second term is increasingly obvious, yet most news sources are still giving him a pass, unlike what occurred with President Biden.
Without his cadre of sycophants and enablers, Trump would rapidly be revealed for what he is, and his followers would abandon this cult that is dragging America into abysmal depths.
Kent Littlehale
Saratoga
Mountains of garbage
threaten health of Gaza
Nine hundred thousand tons of waste have accumulated in Gaza; 380,000 tons in Gaza City alone, where people have been forced to flee.
Israel has suspended the entry of waste removal trucks. Children try to scavenge in the heaps. Rats run through the tents. Flies and insects are everywhere. The stench is unbearable and prevents sleep. Burning the waste sends toxic fumes everywhere. Rain moves the sewage and garbage into the streets and tents. The health crisis is monumental.
These people are human beings, made in the image and likeness of God. This horrific situation must be addressed. Relief must come to these trapped people.
Rosemary Everett
Campbell
Book exposes depravity
of Epstein, Maxwell
I have just read Virginia Giuffre’s book, “Nobody’s Girl,” in which she describes her abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
If anyone out there still thinks Epstein is a nice guy and that Maxwell should be pardoned, please read this book. Not only will it break your heart, it will make you understand the damage that was done by Epstein and Maxwell to Giuffre and to countless other young girls and young women.
Epstein is dead, but no punishment is too harsh for Maxwell.
Katie Dent
Sunnyvale
Red Cross pays off for
community, volunteers
As an American Red Cross volunteer I help people in and around my community of San Jose.
I met a man at a Red Cross blood drive who got choked up recounting how his baby’s life was saved by blood transfusions.
I set up a Red Cross shelter to house families who lost their apartments in a fire, and I knew they would have a safe place to sleep.
I installed free Red Cross smoke alarms, where I met a man who was having nightmares after living through a wildfire that claimed the life of his dog. He was grateful the Red Cross was helping to keep people safe.
I know the Red Cross does good work because I have been a part of making it happen.
Alex Keilty
San Jose
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