Can we trust President Biden?

The recent document investigation report reveals that Joe Biden is incapable of accepting blame or responsibility for anything he does. (Now we know where Hunter gets it from).

Even when his own DOJ's hand-picked special prosecutor calls him “an elderly man with a poor memory,” Joe holds a news conference and refuses to admit to any cognitive deficit before calling the president of Egypt the president of Mexico.

Seriously, does anyone really want him in the White House for four more years?

— Lawrence Rookhuyzen,

Corona

Prime Healthcare

Your article on Mike Hunn, CEO of CalOptima (Feb. 4) canceling the Prime Healthcare contract is to be applauded. It is not often a health care CEO makes a courageous political decision to protect the patients they are hired to serve. Especially the disadvantaged. Prime Healthcare simply failed to provide its patients the continuum of care required to better the patients to improve their overall health. Emergency room healthcare serves acute issues. If 98.6% of Prime's Healthcare was emergency room services, it clearly indicates a failure of meeting the chronic needs of its patients. Return patient visits to emergency rooms is not healthcare.

— Thomas J. Burnham,

Newport Beach

Public sector workers set standard for all workers

Re “Public pay data shows root of budget ills” (Jan. 31):

Unions have been in decline for decades. More and more workers are now private contractors, with no benefits at all, and Americans are struggling immensely. Your rightwing, market solutions have never worked for the common man. Yet you continue to push these lies upon us. Public-sector workers set the standard for all workers.

— Ion Puschila, Pomona

Inflation

Re: “Biden takes aim at grocery chains over food prices” (Feb. 4):

Biden adds $8 trillion to the national debt by overseeing the passage of massive government giveaways such as “The Inflation Reduction Act” and “The Chips Act,” which contributed to the highest inflation in the last 50 years (over 9%), and then blames grocery chains for high prices.

Does our president understand even the simplest of economic principles, such as supply and demand? If you flood the market with free dollars, those dollars by definition will have less buying power through inflation. Instead of chastising grocery stores, which historically have razor-thin profit margins, how about taking responsibility and start enacting economic policies that spur growth and real wage gains, so people can afford groceries again.

— William David Stone,

Irvine

Carlson shows other journalists how it's done

Barbara Walters once interviewed, dare I say flirted with, Fidel Castro. Mike Wallace interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini, and also the head of the KKK, in costume, if that can be called what they wore. Big bad world leaders have all been interviewed, some making the cover as Time magazine's Person of the Year. So why the flap over Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin?

Could it be that our largely propagandistic mainstream media senses a slippage of their control over what we can and should know?

News outlets and newspapers across the country are shedding thousands of workers. Why?

Could it be that they've lost the public's trust in the veracity of their reportage?

— Roger Olsen, Burbank

A progressive president is risky for America

My greatest fear is a progressive whose impulses are totalitarian will get in.

Think AB 5 nationwide already promoted by Joe and soon to be promoted single payer insurance to cover citizens, green carders and illegals.

Thanks for the info. I always learn more off the opinion section than the news section that has been reduced largely to warmed over press releases and AP propaganda.

— Mary Emily Smiley,

Lawndale