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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Northeast Georgian - 4/4/2018

How is this making America great again? EPA under Trump wants to lower the miles per gallon a car gets in order to help the lobbyists in the auto industry and again get rid of an Obama regulation that cuts carbon, cuts health problems from pollution, saves all Americans fuel costs, gives kids less chance to get asthma and older Americans COPD.

This is the EPA person who insists on flying first class and including his wife, and has taxpayers pay for him being privileged. No other administration let their people fly first class.

Also, didn't you hear Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin met with Trump a day before Trump fired him by Twitter, and it was because he wanted to save the Veterans Administration from being privatized, as vets want the VA fixed? Yes, sometimes it is helpful to go to a private doctor if you have to travel far to get care, but to privatize is taking away the military experts that train in military care that only they are experienced in doing. So Trump's solution is to again pick someone with zero experience in the hope it becomes bad enough from lack of funding that they can now do what the Koch brothers, etc., want ? privatize it.

Not to mention Trumpcare's health care that never got fixed but Obamacare was partially defunded to end up costing Americans more.

America is not great anymore.

Then there is Betsy DeVos who also wants to defund public education so more people go to private or charter schools, which will leave many public schools with so little funding that they are forced to close.

This is not how you make America great, but it was great before these billionaires with zero experience were picked to run these agencies.

Paula Golden Demorest

Trash on roadsides ?total disgrace'

To the editor:

I've wanted to write this for some time, regarding all the trash that is always on the side of our roads. It is a total disgrace!

It seems there is no respect for ourselves and our country when I see all the debris on the roadway ? papers, plastic, garbage, etc. What would be so wrong in placing the article in the car until you get home and disposing of it in the trash?

This sure gives our visitors a bad impression of us as they travel through our state.

Please try and keep our roadsides clean and not looking like the city dump.

Barbara Smith Cornelia

Become a voice for a child

To the editor:

Become a person that can make a difference in a child's life. Become a CASA.

CASA, which stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates, is an organization that trains volunteers to advocate, in court, for the best interests of a child that has been taken into Division of Family and Children's Services (state) custody through no fault of their own.

CASA volunteers are able to advocate not only because they have been trained, but because they have been gathering information about the case, speaking to and listening to the principle persons involved with the child. The judge uses information from the CASA to help make a judgment in the best interest for the child. Your relationship with that child becomes an agent of change so that the story he or she shares is one of hope and promise. There are currently 48 children in foster care in Habersham County. Northeast Georgia CASA serves eight counties in Northeast Georgia for a total of 191 children in foster care at this time.

The children need someone to be there for them, someone to listen to them, someone to care about what they need and who will do whatever they can to get them through a time in their life when everything has been turned upside down.

If you are interested in becoming a CASA volunteer, please call the Northeast Georgia CASA office at 706-886-1098. Children are our future ? become the person that makes a difference in the lives of children when they need you the most.

Genia Pittman Board member, Northeast Georgia CASA