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Letter: The consequences of voting for Trump, Palin

Wouldn’t it be great if Donald Trump became president and Sarah Palin became secretary of energy for a couple of months and shut the department down, like she says she would?

And wouldn’t it be great if all the work the Department of Energy does, like at Hanford, shut down so the states could take over and do the work right, and Washington taxpayers could pay for the vit plant, with no help from the evil feds.

And wouldn’t it be great if The Donald fired the thousands of employees at Hanford and President Trump offered the fired workers new jobs building Trump’s Amazing Wall between Mexico and the United States, so that immigrants could look down and see Trump’s name in brilliant neon for miles and miles as they flew north to take jobs we don’t like?

And wouldn’t it be great if when the wall was done, The Donald had a dream where Ronald Reagan appeared to him and said, “Mr. Gorbachev, excuse me, Mr. Trump, tear down this wall.”

And wouldn’t it be great if Mr. Trump listened and had the wall torn down like Ronnie asked? Vote for Trump, get Palin, bye, bye jobs.

Jim Thielman

Richland

This story was originally published September 21, 2015 at 10:24 PM with the headline "Letter: The consequences of voting for Trump, Palin."

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