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Letter: What Trump wants to do makes perfect sense

During a recent news cycle, the mainstream media devoted a reported 23 minutes to bashing Trump. They spent a combined 57 seconds talking about Hillary. I have never seen such biased reporting ever. Hillary’s 30 years in politics have been riddled with scandal after scandal, yet we see almost no criticism of her in the media. When the goal of news media is to influence, rather than inform, they become nothing more than propaganda machines.

Second point. You are the government and I work for you. You pay me $100. I’m in the 20 percent tax bracket so I give back $20. How do you get your $80 back? It certainly can’t come from more people like me who work for you. Your income can only come from the private sector. Hillary wants to put more people on the government payroll.

Donald Trump wants to grow the private sector. He wants to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. He wants to strengthen and modernize our military. How would we defend ourselves from foreign invasion without a strong manufacturing base, and a strong military? What Donald wants to do on these points makes perfect sense to me.

Lee Allen, Warden

This story was originally published October 26, 2016 at 4:38 AM with the headline "Letter: What Trump wants to do makes perfect sense."

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