(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

First, I want to apologize to readers who fact check things in the letters to the editor. My LTE of 10/6 contained a numerical error that changed the arithmetic, but not the conclusion. The debt increase associated with Trump’s trickle down economics was $5 trillion, not $10 trillion. This makes the $8 trillion $4 trillion and the mega-factories are 1300 instead of 2700. Trump never completed a single mega-factory. I mention mega-factories because I started at Borg-Warner Chemicals/Woodmar in 1976 with 2400 people at the plant, many more downtown, and approximately 40 in the engineering group. The 1983 GE buyout resulted in a slow end. High-paying jobs that matched DuPont in salary and benefits vanished. All the local suppliers that provided everything from motors to mops took a hit. These suppliers provided training for employees who interacted with counterparts at Woodmar so when openings occurred they moved up. Trump’s trickle down economics was a gross failure.

I support another letter writer’s selection of candidates. Mr. Morrisey is a troublesome selection. His wife, the lobbyist, dug him a hole so deep with him in it I can barely see his hair. When OxyContin addicts could not get enough they turned to heroin and heroin laced with fentanyl. Money he got from the Sacklers for WV is a pittance compared to the damage done and lives lost not only in WV but the nation! Any lawyer could have done the same. He brags about his dealings with the EPA for coal fired power plants. He has no understanding how fires in the west and Hurricane Helene are related to climate change. We need a governor that can work to make coal a part of the effort to reduce climate change to help WV and the nation! He clearly does not have the intellect to do so. Mr. Justice is not the best choice for senator. We need a full-time senator, not someone that shares an office with his business and legal problems. We saw what that was like with Trump, the moron, as president.

My critic persists in repeating false information like Trump in the hope if he says it enough people will believe it. Obama had a three-year GDP average of 2.2%. Trump had a three-year GDP of 2.5% as mentioned earlier. If the COVID year is included, it drops to 1.2%. The difference is not significant compared to the deficit effect. All my information is fact checkable via Google, unlike [some media outlets] and Trump, which propagate lies and misinformation.

Don’t elect Trump; one term of a “dumb as feces” president is enough.

Gregory Cigal

Parkersburg