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OPINION: What about America?

| February 8, 2017 12:00 AM

Everyone has an opinion, so do I. Without a doubt America is the greatest country in the world.

A lot of people are marching and carrying on about Trump’s policies, especially immigration. I think immigration is wonderful, but has to be regulated. There are a lot of people from other countries who would like to come here to destroy us, and there are a lot of people living here that would like to destroy us.

What better way to destroy a country than to flood it with immigrates and put such a financial burden on us that it breaks us?

We’re having trouble now paying for Social Security, Medicare and getting help for our veterans. Most of the people I know paid their taxes, paid their way and paid into Social Security and Medicare for 40 to 50 years. The vets deserve to get what they’ve earned. One way to take some of the burden off our country is for the people who think you have to let everyone in, sign up and pay for it out of their own pocket!

Another thing people are upset about is that we didn’t elect a woman for president. They blame a lot of things for the reason why, but they should blame themselves. There are a lot of women I’m sure would make a great president, but Hillary Clinton isn’t one of them. Even with biased and inaccurate election news, they couldn’t pull it off. So get over it.

LARRY FORELL

Post Falls