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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset Riv ...
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset River to promote infrastructure spending Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Woodstock, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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LETTER: Columbia kids need to learn to pay their own way
President Joe Biden. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images/TNS)
LETTER: Here’s the real threat to democracy
Donald Trump, left, and Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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LETTER: Here’s something to consider when you vote for president this year
Ardelle Bellman Las Vegas
June 25, 2023 - 9:01 pm
 

There’s a quote debatabley credited to Mark Twain: If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. Was Twain clairvoyant? Does President Joe Biden win in 2024, whether he wins or loses?

Charles Talleyrand, who served as French prime minister for two months in 1815, said, “The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.” President Biden. What a statesman!

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LETTER: Columbia kids need to learn to pay their own way
Martha Olson Las Vegas

Frankly, if I had kids at Columbia who participated in these “protests,” I’d yank them out of school, toss their stuff onto the lawn and tell them to get a job, go live in the real world and pay your own way.

President Joe Biden. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images/TNS)
LETTER: Here’s the real threat to democracy
Bruce A. Kesselman Las Vegas

In the 2020 election, Mr. Biden ran on promises he has failed to keep. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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LETTER: No need for an SOS on Social Security
Bill Minarik Las Vegas

The functional reality is that members of Congress need to keep Social Security alive or they will be voted out of office.