What swamp?
Re “Ramaswamy speaks at Ohio State event,” April 23: At a Turning Point USA event where Vivek Ramaswamy was quizzed about data centers and universities, Savannah Chrisley overpromised in her introduction.
“He is going to walk into Columbus and clean out every crooked interest that has been riding this state into the ground while our generation gets to foot the bill,” she said. This sounds like the Trump campaign promise to drain the swamp like a fiscally conservative Republican. Like Ramaswamy, President Donald Trump promised to cut taxes by billions.
Trump started by appointing Elon Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency: who, as a tech bro, instituted mass layoffs and shuttered agencies in order to fix them.
Trump then used a scorched-earth bombing campaign against leadership, intellectuals and universities to try to corner the Iranian government into a nuclear treaty. As a result, the campaign added at least $25 billion to the deficit and raised the price of gasoline to more than $4 per gallon.Candidate Ramaswamy might provide more detail on how he intends to preserve the standard of living while cutting taxes and reorganizing the university system.
Voters learned too late that robbing Peter to pay Paul didn’t work out so well for anyone except Donald J. Trump.
John Kirwin, Columbus
Our government turned against us
Whether we’re surrounded by cornfields or bodegas, forests or freeways, nearly all of us believe that people, not corporations, should be calling the shots when it comes to the air we breathe, the water we drink and the future of our planet and all life on it. But in America, a handful of rich, White men have installed each other in power and have established a reckless regime run by and for billionaires and corporations at the expense of the rest of us.
The Trump regime is turning our government into a weapon against us. Yet “we the people” are ultimately more powerful than the people in power, despite their wealth.
We must organize ourselves and work diligently to defeat those who’ve served the billionaires and corporations and elect people who will serve all the rest of us. If we do this, things can begin to change for the better in 2026.
Steve Gehlert, Cuyahoga Falls
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ramaswamy’s plans sound a heck of a lot like Trump’s undrained swamp | Letters
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