Rush Limbaugh: Letters to the editor, Dec. 12, 2018

Limbaugh plan kills jobs, hurts planet

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh wants to destroy the electric car industry, the solar industry and the wind industry. He said so on his program. Therefore he supports the destruction of 100,000’s of good-paying, high-skilled jobs. This shows the appalling ignorance of conservative Republicanism. He wants to destroy them like other hard-line conservatives because it does not fit their political agenda. That agenda is to protect the primitive, barbaric carbon-fuel industry from advanced 21st century energy and transportation technology. They are getting paid off to do it.

Rush, like other right wing talk shows, likes to give Trump the credit for the good economy. It actually started getting better during the Obama administration. One of the reasons was his support of solar, electric cars and wind energy. These industries created 100,000’s of good-paying jobs, which stimulated the economy. It created advances in technology.

Also supported by Obama was the commercial crew program with NASA to build private launch space vehicles for space. This created 1000’s of more jobs and led to innovation in rocket technology. The USA now leads because of it. Now conservatives and Trump want to take credit. What a disgrace.

Duty to help wounded warriors

The TV ads asking me to support the Wounded Warrior Project are annoying impositions. I had nothing to do with sending those poor guys over there to get blown up in our empire’s wars.

It is clearly the empire’s duty to repair them.

Sustained attack on trans Americans

With almost two years in office, President Trump has made a substantial effort to target the lives and rights of LGBTQ Americans, more specifically the transgender people within the minority.

He began with an attempt to create a policy banning transgender troops from serving, but the ban was lifted by the Pentagon in June 2016. Now, the administration has shifted its attention to a policy that will limit the legal and medical rights of trans folks. The policy still remains a draft, but if passed, it will legally redefine gender identity and sex as synonymous, which is true for 99.4 percent of the population. However for 0.6 percent, which is approximately 1.4 million adults (the size of Philadelphia), gender and sex are opposite.

According to a 2017 report in The New York Times, at least 20 transgender people were violently murdered, and those were only the few that were documented. Thirty-five percent of Americans are misinformed on transgender science, and believe that being transgender is a mental illness. This can change by continuing to raise awareness and educate the public about trans issues, and showing that Trump’s policy will not benefit the American people in any way.

Keep up good work, Fresno Bee

I thank you Fresno Bee for stating facts as close as you can get it, in spite of the hate which I often read in letters accusing you of falsehoods and not publishing what is heard on Fox News.

Be it Republican or Democrat, the importance of the good and the non-partisan and the humanitarianism happening along with the ridiculous falsehoods and corruption coming from the White House, I care about what’s happening and I truly believe you’re getting as close to the facts as you know how. I also believe The Fresno Bee would follow up on any false reporting.

The hate I read here is amazing. Not all Republicans are filled with hate, i.e. The View’s Abby Huntsman (her father is ambassador to Russia), Megan McCain (John McCain’s daughter) and Anna Navarro, to name a few. These are intelligent women who are appalled by what we see on a daily basis coming from Donald Trump’s administration.

Keep up the work of the good and thank you again for that.