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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to the editor was received after the Daily Planet wrote an editorial in its last edition (Feb. 19-March 4) headlined “So proud of Vance for rocking Munich in fiery speech offering an anti-censorship manifesto to shocked European leaders.”
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couldn’t believe it when Vice President J.D. Vance, in a speech at the Munich Security Conference, made a sarcastic remark about the 22-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who is the greatest person since Mother Teresa!
J.D. Vance took a jab at Greta’s scoldimg ways.
To quote Vance:
“If American democracy can survive 10 yars of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk!”
You bet Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders for not putting their money where their mouths are, as regards funding climate reform.
What is going on is that we have reached the immersive age of mankind, and mankind soon will be spending more of its time in immersive virtual worlds than mankind will (spend) in the real, physical world!
So mankind doesn’t wish to sink all that money into the real, physical world that he soon won’t be spending much time in. Yousafzai
But what Greta Thunberg understands (is) that world leaders apparently don’t understand is that the physical world is used in order to create the digital world.
Without the existence of the physical world and its resources, such as electricity and metals, we couldn’t create a digital world.
That is why Greta Thunberg wishes us humans to preserve the physical world. And to keep it healthy.
In my opinion, Greta Thunberg and Malala (Yousafzai) and JoJo Siwa are the BEST and the BRIGHTEST young people on the planet — and (they) should be running things!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
Musk’s $400B — we’re gonna take it!
First of all, tangerine tyrant Trump and evil Elon’s dimwitted DOGE (Department of Greed and Ecocide) isn’t even a real governmental office, as that would require action from corrupt craven conservatives in Congress who are so lazy and worthless that those brainless bigoted buffoons believe the taxpayers don’t care if they do their job.
Well, in 2026 we’ll find out how Americans really feel about deranged Donald’s continuing crime spree on behalf of his fascist billionaire paymasters Elon “Mumblemouth” Musk and Trump’s boss Putin.
I wouldn’t be campaigning in Illinois anytime soon, if I were traitor Trump, considering how many ethnic Ukrainians and Palestinians live there.
The big payback is only a matter of time now. Trump selling out NATO and the brave people of Ukraine in exchange for billions of Russian rubles will be the end of Putin’s puppet Trump and his low-IQ brood.
Stay tuned, folks! This is going to be fun — for us, not for the rightfully terrified Trump family who are likely to become fewer in numbers soon.
Then there’s that other unjustifiably rich racist Elon Musk’s $400 billion dollar fortune which is a fantastic fraud from start to finish.
Pro-apartheid Elon “on the spectrum” Musk of course inherited his money from his Nazi dad, just like demonic Donald did.
Moronic “Mumblemouth” Musk has never actually created or invented anything in his life whatsoever.
Elon Musk’s whole life is fraudulent!
Even his own children hate him, just like Trump.
Every company Elon Musk has ever owned has been completely corrupt and relied on government largesse for his personal profits.
No one has ever been a bigger recipient of government welfare, fraud, waste, and abuse in America than that inbred immigrant idiot billionaire Elon Musk, who hates America and loves apartheid-era South Africa.
Well, there’s a simple way to solve this problem: take Musk’s money away from him and deport that Sieg Heil saluting neo-Nazi back to South Africa where that corrupt criminal Musk came from.
Let’s see how well that little pasty White supremacist Adolf Hitler fan fares in post-apartheid South Africa without all of his Nazi daddy’s money from those diamond mines.
Get a real job, Elon, you fascist!
Instead of the brutally oppressed poor people of Ukraine and Palestine, it’s that evil pig Elon Musk who can either accept dispossession and deportation or suffer the consequences of revolution on the way.
Regardless, we’re taking that Nazi’s $400 billion. Power to the people! Elon Musk will burn in Hell. And you already know Don the con is going there, not to mention bloodthirsty Benjamin Netanyahu.
Free Palestine and Ukraine! And to Hell with anyone who says otherwise.
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
Immigration reform would benefit American farmers
On Valentine's Day, the official account for The White House posted on X, “Roses are red, Violets are blue, Come here illegally, And we’ll deport you.”
In its statement on labor and immigration reform, the National Milk Producers Federation asserts, “Immigrant labor accounts for 51 percent of all dairy labor, and dairies that employ immigrant labor produce 79 percent of the U.S. milk supply.”
Losing undocumented farm workers would greatly disrupt rural economies throughout our nation.
Notably, although it is nearly impossible to fill these jobs with American workers, according to federal statute 8 U.S. Code § 1324a, it is illegal to knowingly hire an “unauthorized alien.” Violations are subject to criminal penalties.
Some mistakenly believe that the H-2A visa program can accommodate any undocumented agricultural worker. However, this program is only for temporary or seasonal employees, and so Wisconsin’s undocumented dairy workers are ineligible.
The presence of undocumented immigrants on our nation’s farms is common knowledge. Why aren’t ardent Trump supporters in our state legislatures and congressional delegations publicly calling for ICE raids on the dairy farms in their districts?
Sadly, rather than insisting on comprehensive immigration reform, as well as humanizing those who seek a better life, many seem to favor placing shackled and downcast human beings on military transports, and flying them back to the countries they fled.
TERRY HANSEN
Milwaukee, Wisc.
A fix for the U.S. school system? At last, here’s a recipe for success
The present U.S. education system does very little to prepare the students for the real world.
At the end of the 12th grade, very few have any true skills to get a job. Plus, many college degrees are useless, as they are too general and the first two years are usually a repeat of high school.
Many students cannot get jobs that justify the cost of college.
I think the following would go a long way to fix the system:
• First through sixth grade, the teachers must teach the students the BASICS, like arithmetic, speaking, spelling, reading and writing. Teach arithmetic without calculators. Teach the students what type of questions to ask themselves to reason out the answers for themselves. Teach U.S. history with solid knowledge of the Constutution and Bill of Rights — plus world history and geography are a must.
• Starting in 7th grade, the courses change to three hours a day for courses to prepare the student for college. One hour a day should be allocated for a course called “LIFE.” This course would teach the students EVERTHING they need to know once they begin life after 12th grade — like cooking, washing the clothes, balancing the checkbook, understanding the interest rate on loans, how to do a budget and stick to it, etc.
• Teach four hours daily of vocation/trade skills. These courses would teach skills to be a plumber, carpenter, chef, landscaper, auto mechanic, dental tech, nurse, etc. The courses would also include management, purchasing, accounting and all of the skills needed to run a business.
At the end of the courses, the instructors would — or would not — issue a certificate that guarantees the employer that the student can do the job without supervision — and correctly.
The student could, in many cases, finish high school with three to six skills.
I am pretty sure the dropout rate would be much lower then it is now - -— and the students would be more prepared to start life on their own.
FREMONT V. BROWN III
Asheville
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