To the editor:
Over 2,500 Leelanau residents receive Medicaid. Most Americans want their tax dollars to pay for important programs that serve the American people – like Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps) - NOT to make the wealthy wealthier! Every passing day this nation feels less like a democracy and more like a dictatorship. What is happening at the hands of the current federal executive branch is abhorrent, and I know I am not the only ordinary citizen who is feeling angry, scared, and so sad.
I support ALL the courageous efforts to stop the travesties. Efforts coming out of the legislative and judiciary branches, from the grassroots, and from the media who dare to tell the whole truth.
What else can we ordinary citizens do? We can resist any and all “us versus them” thinking and actions. We are simply and ultimately all in this together. We need to dust off the Golden Rule, and let it lead our every decision through our days: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.” Love, compassion, and kindness — now more than ever, what we can do.
Laura Franseen Suttons Bay
