"Letter to the Editor" Doris Chorny

 How do you define evil?

How about the destruction of 500 metric tons of high-energy biscuits intended to feed some 1.5 million children in Afghanistan and Pakistan?  They were stored in the United Arab Emirates poised for shipment, but with the destruction of USAID (the US Agency for International Development), they were burned instead.

The previous administration spent $800,000 for the food and the current administration spent $130,000 to destroy it.

Or do you prefer to define evil as putting 1000s of people - 56,000 to be exact - in cages where they suffer from heat, mosquitoes, little to no food or medical treatment and no hope for release.

All funded by US tax dollars.

Vote.

"To the Editor" Doris Chorny

To the Editor,

Whoever heard of a US president in perpetual war with the citizens he has sworn to govern justly? 

This president intends to downgrade our health by cutting $800B from Medicaid and $500B from Medicare. He wants to withhold new Covid vaccines from over half the population.  These are the vaccines containing new viruses that we have no immunity to.  We are already dying younger than most people living in prosperous countries and now, with Trump defunding science, our health will be further downgraded.
Whoever heard of a US president being so against the people?

"Letter to the editor" Doris Chorny

We may not have a flu vaccine this fall, or an effective one.  Why was the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices cancelled?  Now is the time to figure out the recipe for next fall’s vaccine.
Does this administration want us sick?  Dead? 
How does that help its agenda?
As the administration takes down our country and ‘cuts back on spending’, does it want to cut back on the population as well?

"Trump's horrible lies about the Ukraine" Letter to the editor Kathryn Adorney

My husband and I were in Prague in April 2022. The invasion of Ukraine had just occurred. In the Lobkowicz Palace, there was a display of photographs taken at the time of the invasion. Each picture showed a selfie from before the invasion and a selfie the day of the invasion. The day of the invasion the faces were swollen and red from crying.
One of the artists, Tanya, wrote, “a week ago, I had an ordinary life, with the usual chores, like everyone else. I was happy that spring would come. Unexpectedly, me and millions of other people’s lives changed. Yesterday I was sitting in a café with friends and today my country is being bombed, the sirens, the bomb shelters, the panic, not understanding what to do next … only tears for my relatives, friends, and the whole country.”
Mr. Trump’s assertion that Mr. Zelensky started the war is a horrible lie. I am deeply concerned that the rights of the Ukrainian people to protect their sovereign country are being trampled on. But then the rights of Americans are of little consequence to Mr. Trump. When we speak out in protest against all of these cruel and unlawful actions by Mr. Trump we are speaking out and protesting for all who have been hurt, demeaned, and abandoned by him and therefore by the United States.
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"Letter to the editor" Doris Chorny

You’re invited to a big event from midnight Thursday, February 27th to midnight Friday, February 28th.   Don’t buy anything!

Do not use credit cards or debit cards.  Don’t buy gas. Don’t shop in stores or online.  No Target, no McDonalds, no Amazon.
It’s the 24-Hour Economic Black Out against our current government.  Since consumer spending is 70% of GDP, our dollars will speak louder than words. With significant participation this Economic Black Out will grab the attention of banks, big box stores and the media.
To make it a big event, join in.  Spread the word. (The next Black Out could be bigger and longer.)

"letter to the editor" Doris Chorny

With the federal government about to radically change, there is a sense that less advocacy is at play… to say the least.  But we can fight for issues affecting our State of New York.  We’ve got a government here not run by Trump and we have environmental issues, social justice concerns and immigrants to fight for.

The New York Packaging and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S2426-b and A5322-b) is a bill that requires companies to pay for recycling their own packaging waste instead of us taxpayers holding the bag, so to say!  It would also end the use of toxic chemicals in packaging.  This is an environmentally significant action to take on.

Please call Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (518-455-3791) to enact it.  It’s time companies took responsibility, not just profits.

"Open season to switch health insurance plans" Letter to the editor, Hal Chorny

The open session is upon us, a period during which seniors can switch health insurance plans. Seniors are receiving solicitations to join Medicare Advantage plans with promises of huge money savings, perks like gym memberships, vision and dental coverage, and more. They are trying to lure seniors from government run Medicare into private, for- profit plans. Medicare Advantage plans maximize profits to reward their stockholders. Traditional Medicare limits what physicians can charge and keeps their overhead to less than two percent. Some Medicare Advantage plans are cheaper than straight Medicare, but provide less coverage. There are many indirect ways to reduce coverage including obstacles to obtain authorizations, size limited panels of doctors and as many ingenious ways as they can create. Their major goal is profit, not health care. The main goal of traditional Medicare is health care, not profits. With straight Medicare one can see most any provider and never be denied care by a clerk administering the rules of the company. It is the plan for those who want to be sure they will get what they pay for. 

Publishing history

HV1: 11/30/22