There is no market solution to the water shortage, yet the city has dragged its feet for years and refused to build desalination plants. Meanwhile, it has attracted new industrial facilities by promising them massive amounts of water, even though there isn’t enough water for the general population. Corpus Christi’s only hope is that it will be hit by at least one huge hurricane and reap the benefit of massive flooding.
Michael Douglas Gilbert, Houston
Regarding “Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense funds,” (April 3): President Donald Trump said the federal government can no longer provide funds for childcare, Medicaid and Medicare because “we are fighting wars.” He wants states to pay for it and went so far as to say that states should raise taxes for this purpose. With the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff between Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, I think Texas voters would benefit from knowing where these candidates stand on this issue.
Do they support raising our taxes so that parents can work to support their families? What about retirees having healthcare? Do they support senior citizens being able to afford nursing homes? It’s important to know whether your next senator supports raising your taxes while giving the Department of Defense even more money, despite not passing an audit in countless years. It would be helpful to know where the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor stand on this as well, since they will be the ones actually in charge of proposing tax legislation.
Regarding “The ‘Golden Age of America’ is coming,” (April 1): Tim Graney’s opinion that Trump has created policies that will correct the governmental failures of the last four or five decades begs two important questions: Was Trump not the president for four of these years when these “failures” were created? And didn’t Trump campaign on the promise to keep us out of needless foreign conflicts in the Middle East?
The premise that the American people need to be patient with Trump’s actions to achieve peace and prosperity suggests, at a minimum, philosophical plagiarism of the play, “Waiting For Godot,” by the Irish Playwright Samuel Beckett. Hopefully, my reference to this work will not cause the Board of Regents of Texas A&M to ban it, along with Plato.
Thomas Temple, Houston
Didn’t anyone pay attention to the history of this failed businessman with a string of bankruptcies in his portfolio?
Elizabeth Ashton, Houston
The Trump administration and those before it assumed that Iran would do what is in their rational best interest. But that’s nonsense. Iran is a theocracy and its “interests” are theological, not rational. Just think about the Christians thrown to the lions in ancient Rome. It would have been in their “rational best interest” to bow down to pagan gods. They didn’t. Same principle.
David McMilin, The Woodlands