To the editor:

This is in response to Clay Commons’s sarcastic “catastrophe” letter published last week.

He stated Nikki Haley has said she would support Trump because Biden has been a “catastrophe”. Update: on July 10 Nikki freed her delegates to support Trump, because “We need a president who will hold our enemies to account, secure our border, cut our debt and get our economy back on track.”

He sarcastically stated “the catastrophe has continued, with another 200,000 jobs created”. In the recent June job report it was 215,000 jobs, however about two thirds of this growth was concentrated in government and health care. And there were also jobs lost, the biggest being in temporary help services and according a CNN business article by Alicia Wallace, these jobs are the first to go in hard times.

He sarcastically stated, “Unemployment has been below 4% for 28 months, the best performance since the 1960s. Catastrophic.”  Oops, in the May Jobs Report the rate moved to 4% and in the June report inched up to 4.1%. Looks like we might be heading in another direction.

He sarcastically stated, “the Dow Jones average rose to the highest level ever, over 40,000 points. Yikes, what a catastrophe”. Whenever the Dow rose to new highs under President Trump the left insisted it had nothing to do with him or his policies. Maybe the Dow is rising in anticipation of a Trump presidency on the horizon?

He makes a laughable and confusing claim that Republicans return to their districts “and brag about the economic opportunities created by programs they voted against. Considering the catastrophic state of things, that is truly ironic.” What?

Mr. Commons goes on to state “The crisis at the border is the real catastrophe, propagated by Republicans who refuse to let President Biden do anything about it” and claiming Trump needs that crisis for his campaign. The crisis at the Border IS a catastrophe and it is all on Biden.  Biden took office with the most secure border in over 40 years and with his pen Biden removed all Trump’s policies and agreements with Mexico, thus creating the crisis.

Ironically, Mr. Commons ends his letter in part with “I think I’ll vote for the Biden ‘catastrophe.’” You did get what you voted for. To quote from the Republican Party Platform: “Yet after nearly four years of the Biden administration, America is now rocked by raging inflation, open borders, rampant crime, attacks on our children, and global conflict, chaos, and instability.”

And the most ironic statement by Mr. Commons directed to Republicans, “Re-electing the liar-in-chief is more important than addressing any crisis”, should be directed to the Democrats who have been lied to and elected President Biden. In the debate Biden told many lies about Trump and even his own administration, one that should make every American realize how unqualified this liar-and-chief Biden is: “I am the only president this century that doesn’t have any – this decade – that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like (Trump) did.” The truth: under Biden 13 soldiers were killed in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, 3 troops died in a drone attack in Jordan and 2 Navy Seals died during a raid on a ship carrying weapons for Houthi rebels. These were all brave Americans and not one of them should ever be forgotten.

Judy Anderson
Bristol