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Peggy Burgess

Tulsa

Letter: 1st Amendment violations

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The First Amendment to the US Constitution is the safety valve of American society. The framers of our Constitution well understood human nature. They knew when people cannot express their criticisms, grievances, disappointments, outrages, and yes, even hatred, freely, those thoughts boil and churn until a boiling point is reached, too often leading to violence….

Letter: Walmart goes to China?

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Gordon Chang, a reliable expert on China, reported the following information on January 9: Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) Tweeted: #Walmart, in anticipation of #Biden’s presidency, is cancelling orders it had placed with domestic suppliers and sending them to #Chinese factories. So Walmart flying the #American flag is cynical. It is really loyal to money and…

Letter: So-called ‘Fairness’ Act favors immigrants vs. our citizens

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On December 2, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed S.386, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, by unanimous consent (avoiding a roll call vote). This law would be more accurately called “Screw American High-Skilled Workers Act of 2019.” This bill increased the number of H1-B Visa recipients who can apply for permanent resident status (green…

Letter: The people have the power

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Twitter, Facebook, and Twitter only have power because ordinary people give them power. Stop using these platforms. Use PARLER instead of Twitter. Try DUCKDUCKGO instead of Google. Look for alternatives to Facebook. No customers: no power. You are the commodity being sold by these tech giants. Take their access to you away and their customers…

Letter: Do your homework on the Medicare Advantage policies

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If you depend on Medicare for health coverage, your mailbox is likely filled with offers from various Medicare “Advantage” Plans. Medicare open enrollment started October 15. If you are thinking of taking an advantage plan, be sure to read the fine print and understand what coverage you are actually getting.  Some advantage plans offer special…

Letter: Lankford and unemployment?

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At a time when unemployment rates are at all-time highs because of the damage done by government-required business shutdowns, Senator James Lankford has proudly co-sponsored S386 giving more H-1B visa workers a faster track to green cards. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. IT workers have been displaced over the last 20-plus  years by cheaper foreign…

Letter: Stop abusive foreign worker programs

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U.S. Senator James Lankford has forgotten the people he was sent to Washington to represent. We need a new senator who understands his primary obligation is to represent the interests of US citizens living in Oklahoma. Currently there are at least 39 million Americans out of work because of the coronavirus shutdown.  Since the beginning…

Letter: Multinational firms, politicians gave us the coronavirus

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The coronavirus has illuminated the fallacy of globalism.  Globalism is an economic system promoted by financial and industrial elites and multinational corporations to minimize costs by utilizing Third World cheap labor in countries that are less regulated to maximize profits.  For the last 30-plus years,  U.S. senators, congressmen and presidents have happily enacted laws, and…

Letter: Don’t count on the Republican Party

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If you think the Republican Party represents the interests of middle-class working U.S. citizens, you are delusional. The GOP, including all four Oklahoma GOP Congressmen, really represents the interests of large corporate entities and wealthy elites, their well-paid lobbyists, and the Chamber of Commerce. If you have any doubt of the GOP’s true intentions, look…

Letter: Our disrespect for human life is the root of mass shootings

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Another mass shooting, Why? We have now suffered more mass shootings.  This time the shooting was in a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas (and in Dayton, Ohio.) Why are we witnessing mass shootings? I believe the root cause of the increase of mass shootings is not mysterious.  In 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…