Democrats by no means appear to be taught. As a substitute of being introspective on why one other chief has switched political events, they instantly run to their nook and begin slinging assaults.
It’s truthful criticism that the timing of Rep. Hillary Cassel’s swap was in poor style. Nevertheless, after election day, winners work for all of their constituents, not simply those that voted for them or belong to their occasion.
I don’t care who she caucuses with and I love her braveness to change, realizing the vitriol she would face. I care that she’s conscious of constituents like me — which she is. I care that she fights for what she believes is true, which I imagine she’s going to proceed to do.
By altering, she additionally creates alternative to have her priorities, together with insurance coverage reform, given consideration and can almost definitely be capable to deliver extra assets dwelling for our district. I care that as a Jewish lady, she acknowledged that she needed to communicate up when her occasion more and more cowers to antisemites. To me and to everybody she represents, these are nice issues we should always worth in our elected leaders.
Sandra Veszi Einhorn, Hollywood
Pitifully lame excuses
State Rep. Hillary Cassel is my sister-in regulation. However I and all the members of the Cassel household that I’ve spoken to are genuinely disillusioned in Hillary’s misguided resolution to vary events.
Personally, I believe that she put collectively some pitifully lame excuses to rejoin the GOP. Moreover, we look ahead to supporting certified Democrats to run towards her.
Bradley Cassel, Lake Value Seaside
Every week of gun violence
I’ve already misplaced rely of the variety of gun-related incidents simply within the New Yr’s vacation week. The place’s the outrage and the outcry to “get the weapons”? Are we so hardened to gun violence that we glance the opposite manner?
It appears nobody is protected on an evening out. What’s occurred? Is that this nonetheless America, the place we “love thy neighbor”? Get mad, get even and eliminate the weapons.
I’m horrified and terrified, however I’m grateful I reside in a gated senior condominium advanced. Oh, wait — my neighbor has weapons and advertises it in an indication on his window. I‘m an lively 92-year-old who simply needs a carefree night time out.
Audrey Frieman, Pembroke Pines
Why we’d like employee visas
Former presidential advisor Steve Bannon excoriated Elon Musk for supporting H1-B non permanent visas for know-how employees who’ve specialised expertise.
We’re instructed this can trigger an enormous fissure amongst Republicans. However the U.S. grants about 85,000 H1-B visas a yr to international employees with levels in specialised occupations after they have job provides from employers who can present a scarcity of U.S. job candidates in that area.
That is good immigration — in contrast to irresponsible immigration, which indiscriminately admits caravans of unvetted folks with no documented language or academic expertise.
America’s delivery or fertility fee for 2023 was 1.6 (or 1,616.5 births per 1,000 ladies), beneath the substitute delivery fee of two.1 kids per lady. We want high quality, educated immigrants to develop our inhabitants, lest we face demographic and financial declines like China (delivery fee 1.2), Russia (1.5), Japan (1.3), South Korea (0.9), Germany (1.5) and different industrialized international locations.
Plentiful younger, educated immigrant employees is the one manner for the U.S. to keep up a robust, aggressive economic system by the twenty first Century. The U.S. is lucky that high-value immigrants search citizenship right here. Educated, multilingual grad college students don’t wish to go to China or Russia, and Japan doesn’t permit it.
Gerard S. (Jerry) Williams, Southwest Ranches
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