Democrats want a brand new course
I’m very confused. Will the DNC proceed to stroll away from rural America, thus our district, or will it open its eyes and look within the mirror? My guess is that nothing will change, and we’ll proceed to lose elections by bigger and bigger numbers in our county and congressional district.
Why do the leaders of unions assist our get together, however the rank-and-file members don’t? Why do white males like me get known as privileged white males once we disagree? Are we hated? Would clarify rather a lot. Robust to win should you hate these you are attempting to characterize.
I’m calling for a change in course. We should get again to working for the voters. Take heed to them as a substitute of pushing the nationwide agenda. Work for them, not get together leaders. They’re uninterested in being advised “the economy is great, you just don’t understand that it’s great,” mainly calling them silly. They need us to take heed to them and work for them.
Get out of your bubble and take heed to the individuals. Cease believing getting two extra votes per polling location is the objective and win elections in our county and district once more.
Sorry, however this privileged white male needed to vent. Have an excellent vacation season with all your loved ones members. Don’t speak politics. Speak about household and be grateful we dwell in America.
Ken Bach
Smithton
***
Nippon key to US Metal’s future
After studying the advert within the Dec. 8 paper selling the U.S. Metal-Nippon merger, I wished to share an out of doors opinion, as I’ve no inventory and by no means labored for USS. I did work for the Elliott Co. in Jeannette, which was purchased by Japanese-owned Ebara Corp. in 2000, so I’ve expertise as an worker of a Japanese-owned firm. Ebara supplied stability to Elliott Co.
In 1970, the U.S. Metal constructing was opened as a beacon in Pittsburgh, proclaiming its greatness because the premier metal maker on the earth,. U.S. Metal was a significant employer. Quick-forward to immediately: U.S. Metal has fallen to round fifteenth as a metal producer. Three metal services stay in Pittsburgh. The U.S. Metal constructing was offered to UPMC.
U.S. Metal is a shadow of its former greatness. Many of the blame for its decline will be laid on the toes of its administration. It’s not a beacon of greatness. Maybe a merger with a stronger firm (Nippon is fifth) can assist it stay related and aggressive.
I train enterprise at an area college and research Japanese tradition. I’ve my college students write a time period paper on Toyota. Japanese companies have 5 rules with respect to individuals: lifetime employment for everlasting positions, staff as belongings, firm unions, bonuses and sustaining stage payrolls when enterprise situations decline.
Nippon Metal is making guarantees that they almost definitely will preserve. I feel the way forward for U.S. Metal may very well be tied to Nippon Metal.
John Russo
North Huntingdon
***
Ranked selection voting offers all voters a say
Within the Bob Casey-Dave McCormick Senate race, no candidate acquired nearly all of votes.
McCormick gained with 48.8% of the vote, narrowly edging out Casey’s 48.6%. In the meantime, 200,000 voters — 2.6% of the full — backed third-party candidates and didn’t have a say between the 2 front-runners.
Some states maintain runoff elections to make sure winners safe over 50%, permitting voters to decide on immediately between the highest two candidates. However runoffs are pricey and time-consuming and undergo from low turnout. There’s a greater choice: ranked selection voting.
With ranked selection voting, third-party voters may rank their favourite candidate first whereas nonetheless having their vote depend for a front-runner if their best choice had no likelihood to win. It really works like an automated runoff, producing a majority winner immediately — no further elections or prolonged campaigning required.
If Pennsylvania had ranked selection voting, these 200,000 voters may have supported third events with out forfeiting their voice within the ultimate end result. We will’t know if their opinions would have modified the outcome, however one factor is definite: Their voices ought to have been heard.
It’s time to undertake this commonsense reform and guarantee each voter has a say.
Armin Samii
Lawrenceville
***
Banning social media? The kids will survive.
Relating to the editorial “Is a social media ban here possible?” (Dec. 3, TribLive): I’m sufficiently old to recollect when the identical factor was stated about pool and comedian books. I survived. So will immediately’s kids. In fact, that is totally different. Isn’t it at all times?
Bob Peirce
Venetia
***
Reauthorizing PEPFAR to combat HIV/AIDS will save lives
Our combat to finish HIV/AIDS is among the biggest success tales, and that’s largely as a consequence of an American program you might need by no means heard of earlier than. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Aid (PEPFAR) was established by President George Bush in 2003 to stem the scourge of HIV/AIDS, particularly in locations the place an HIV prognosis has a low survival charge. Twenty years later, PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives, together with 5.5 million kids who had been born HIV-free. Greater than half of all of the individuals residing with HIV obtain lifesaving remedy via PEPFAR applications.
The numbers that cement PEPFAR’s legacy as one of the vital profitable authorities applications in historical past are a robust justification for its continued existence. Maybe extra highly effective is the risk to progress — to human life — that may be created by PEPFAR’s absence. In keeping with one research, AIDS-related deaths may multiply by greater than 400% by 2030 with out PEPFAR. The variety of kids orphaned by AIDS may double.
This isn’t the long run I would like, so I’m asking my member of Congress, Rep. Chris Deluzio, to assist a clear, five-year reauthorization of PEPFAR so this critically essential program can proceed to avoid wasting lives and transfer us nearer to a day the place everybody, in every single place is protected from the specter of HIV/AIDS.
Jordan Hinds
McKees Rocks
The author is a PA District 17 ONE Marketing campaign volunteer.
***
Transfer on from election outcomes
I simply checked out a few of the Trib’s letters to the editor. It’s been a protracted whereas. It was as if I turned on the TV. Look, there’s nothing any of us can do when our candidate wins or loses. Simply settle for it. Transfer on. Whether or not you want what’s going to occur or not, recover from it. Why lose sleep? Why increase your blood strain? Why get in arguments?
My candidates have gained some elections. I’ve had others lose. I wait until their four-year time period is up and vote once more for the most effective candidate for my part. Nothing you say or do goes to vary something. Transfer on.
Dave Surma
Decrease Burrell
***
Life has price, and it’s price defending
Main as much as the election, the pro-choice candidates by no means wasted a chance to remind us that their opponents are in opposition to authorized abortion. Whereas many of the political advertisements on tv targeted on the horrible case of rape, which accounts for lower than 2% of abortions, not one of the advertisements talked about the rationale why individuals work to finish abortion. I’d suppose that the overwhelming majority of pro-life advocates would agree {that a} woman is free to decide on what she does together with her physique, so long as she doesn’t harm anybody else.
A brand new human being with distinctive human DNA is fashioned for the time being of fertilization. Nascent cardiac tissue begins to provide a heartbeat 5 weeks later. At eight weeks, legs and arms with fingers and toes are current. At 12 weeks, the unborn little one is actively transferring within the womb, kicking, twisting and sucking her thumb. It can’t be denied that it is a human life. The query is, does this tiny human life have price? Professional-life advocates suppose that this life does have price, and that it’s a life price defending.
If you happen to or somebody you understand is pregnant and desires assist, name or textual content Possibility Line at 800-712-4357 or go to optionline.org.
John Lewandowski
Citadel Shannon
