If SNAP cuts go into effect soon, how will my neighbor eat? I Opinion

SNAP cuts endanger food for the elderly

“I wouldn’t be able to eat.”

That’s the answer to my question to my 70-year-old neighbor when I asked her, “What if you didn’t have SNAP?” My neighbor worked all her life and is on Social Security. She had to sell her home and now rents. She’s living thriftily and is worried about the prices of food going up.

You see, this “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes sweeping cuts to SNAP that truly will take food away from millions of Americans. In Pierce County alone, approximately115,000 people are on SNAP.

Also, this happened: On Oct. 3, the USDA notified the states that the changes to SNAP go into effective on Nov. 1

Now, the government is shutdown, which gives us an opportunity to convince Congress to stop the crazy and cruel cuts to SNAP. We need to remind them that it’s time to prioritize people over politics.

Contact your Congress members. Let them know this stinks! Help speak up for the people who will go hungry if nothing is done.

Ellen Beatriz, Shelton

Ibsen can’t be trusted

A reminder to voters that in 2019 when Anders Ibsen was on the Tacoma City Council he was found to have violated the city code of ethics for using his position on the council to try to generate clients for his real estate business. I cannot trust that he might not try to do something again if elected mayor to improve his personal business prospects, whether while in office, or after leaving.

Ellen Cohen, Tacoma

Trump threatens basic liberty

During his campaign for president, the convicted felon claimed that, if elected, he would be a dictator for one day. He also stated that he knew nothing about Project 2025. Again, he has been proven to be a liar.

Ten months into this term, with the aid of his criminally corrupt administration, he is working to enact extreme parts of Project 2025. Day one he pardons hundreds of Jan. 6th insurrectionists. His policies endanger Social Security and Medicare. He is cozying up to dictators, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreements and World Health Organization. He is excepting massive personal gifts from foreign governments, conducting mass layoffs of federal workers.

Trump’s cabinet heads only had one qualification, a total loyalty to Trump. They are incompetent, unqualified, corrupt and willing to support Trump’s illegal attempt to become a full-time dictator. His appointees to the Defense and Intelligence Departments are a threat to the National Security of this nation.

Now he is illegally sending masked armed military to what he calls war torn American cities. With the aid of the spineless Republican Congress and conservative Supreme Court he will take away our Civil Rights. Voting Rights, Human Rights, Women’s Rights, and Constitutional Rights.

Steve Golubic, Puyallup