Awaiting knighthood
Awaiting knighthood
For many years, my family and I have really enjoyed visits to your wonderful country, and none were better than our visit to the Hawaiian Islands.
I understand your president doesn’t do just deals, but great deals. He also wants to make America great again.
Well, I’d like to broker a great deal.
I live in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and I’m sure we could trade you our “Great” for your dollars, provided we spent them in the “Great United States of America.” This would be great for me, great for the travel and airline industries, great for your economy, and would really further our countries’ special relationship.
A great deal or what?
I look forward to a text from your president and a knighthood from my prime minister.
David Davies
Wales, Great Britain
Checks and balances
Respectfully, I feel compelled to respond to Mr. Harlan Hiltner’s letter, “Contempt earned,” in the Tribune-Herald’s Feb. 7 publication of Your Views.
Regarding our geographical challenges as a nation in the 18th century, and that being justification for the Electoral College: I don’t think so.
I did a bit of research, and the fact that we were 4 million people spread up and down the Eastern Seaboard was a consideration, but was hardly the determining factor.
I would ask one question, if that were the case. Why didn’t we eliminate the Electoral College when the telegraph was invented, or when the railroads traversed our nation, or when the interstate road systems were put into place, or maybe when jet travel became an everyday occurrence?
The reason the Electoral College is in effect today is because it provides checks and balances, as well as provides stability to the process of picking our presidents. That is the one constant reoccurring theme I read in every article I came across. I digress; Mr. James Madison’s and Mr. Alexander Hamilton’s writings can provide excellent and factual clarity on this issue.
The comment that “we will never be a democracy” was completely accurate because we are a constitutional republic!
Contempt aside, I was always taught to respect our institutions and the people who govern them, as well as to respect the peaceful transition of power in our nation.
P.S. I enjoyed your letter, Mr. Richard Bell (Your Views, Feb. 2).
Jim Fitzgerald
Keaau