(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

Every time a Republican president is elected to office, the Democrats and the fake news media begin screaming Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. are going to be abolished. The same rubbish we heard when Reagan and both Bushes were president and when Trump was serving his first term. It never happened then and it won’t happen during Trump’s second term. This is the usual Democratic scare mongering.

The first Social Security check was paid in 1937. Since then, Democratic presidents, beginning with LBJ and through Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden, have raided the Social Security fund and mispent the trust fund monies. President Biden further depleted the fund’s money when he imported, fed and housed illegal immigrants. Republicans are not the threat to Social Security, the Democrats seek to bankrupt Social Security out of existence.

Social Security will be bankrupt within the next decade unless the problem is addressed and resolved. Trump and Elon Musk have one partial fix, eliminating waste and fraud in the Social Security administration. The Democrats and the fake news lie to delude us into believing Trump will eliminate these programs. Sadly, gullible Americans believe this crapola.

Thus far, Trump has done a remarkable job of keeping his promises. Inflation is down, oil and gasoline prices are falling and are expected to continue downward. As gasoline prices decline, the price of goods will drop. Even egg prices have reduced sharply.

Trump hasn’t been in office 100 days and needs time to completely turn the country around, considering Joe Biden has had four years of wrecking our country.

If Trump hasn’t made progress before the midterms, the Republican Party will pay a price. If Trump succeeds in the next two years, the Democrats will suffer in 2026. In the meantime, the Democrats will fight Trump “tooth and nail” to keep him from succeeding.

Democrats are outraged over Donald Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk. Where was their outrage when billionaires George Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Siers, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, etc. and wealthy Hollywood elites conspired with Joe Biden to hide his cognitive decline and get him re-elected before his cognitive decline forced him to drop out? Elon Musk is in the open, not operating clandestinely in the shadows.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg