If Trump is impeached, I pity the Democrat who’ll have to fill his shoes

I pity the Dem who’ll follow Trump

If the Democrats are successful impeaching our president, I would not want to be in the shoes of the president who follows him, particularly a Democrat. President Trump’s accomplishments are phenomenal in light of the resistance he has faced. He is one of the few in my lifetime who has had the intestinal fortitude to do things others have promised but failed to act on.

These accomplishments will head in the other direction with a Democrat leader. Are we ready to suffer the consequences?

Harmon James, Denver

Send this heartless crowd packing

Regarding “688,0000 to lose food stamps under new work rules” (Dec. 5):

The Trump administration gives a huge tax break to the wealthiest people in this country, causing the national debt to explode upwards of $1 trillion, and then tries to claw back $5.5 billion from the poorest people — those who cannot even find regular part-time work, by taking away the food stamps that just might allow them to feed their kids before they head off to school each day.

Let’s hope the roughly 3.7 million individuals who will be affected by this revolting new measure from millionaire Sonny Perdue’s USDA join the mass of voters next November to send this heartless crowd packing.

Alan Singerman, Mooresville

Once again, taxpayers pay more

Regarding “Charlotte leaders hold groundbreaking ceremony for Convention Center upgrades,” (Dec. 5):

Again, city leaders show they don’t know how to do capital budgets. The convention center improvements are 15 percent higher than originally expected. The City appears to just throw out pie in the sky numbers to get approval, then worry about the actual cost later.

Most businesses would fire employees for this. The City needs to do better on its estimates.

Tom Payne, Charlotte

Be careful with those taxpayer dollars

Regarding “Waiting for MLS team bid, city council disagrees on funding,” (Dec. 4):

Before city leaders decide how many millions of taxpayer dollars they are going to use to subsidize a billionaire’s hobby, I hope they ask themselves: Are there any peer reviewed studies that demonstrate major league sports franchises result in a net economic gain for municipalities? The answer may surprise them.

Jason Huber, Charlotte

Least Burr can do is tell the truth

Sen. Richard Burr said Monday “Every elected official in the Ukraine was for Hillary Clinton. Is that very different than the Russians being for Donald Trump?”

He must know that is a lie. He should stop spreading this debunked and false narrative. These lies for the sake of his leader are dangerous and serve no useful purpose.

Burr swore an oath on the Bible is to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, not to cover for a corrupt administration and for Vladimir Putin. The least he can do is tell the truth.

The founding fathers anticipated the possibility of a corrupt presidency. How shortsighted they were not to anticipate a corrupt party.

Jacqueline Briscoe, Hickory

Where’s the GOP health care solution?

Once again, a right-wing columnist — Marc Thiessen on Dec. 4 — criticizes Democratic efforts to provide affordable health care without offering any solution. And once again, it appears Republicans believe quality health care is a privilege of wealth. They ignore the fact that preventive care provided in the Affordable Care Act is cheaper than remedial care.

They vehemently opposed attempts to refine the ACA. The Republicans’ only objective was to oppose any effort to improve the Act, presumably because of Obama’s link.

How about Thiessen and Republicans come up with a plan that offers affordable, comprehensive care for everyone? By the way, where is Trump’s plan, which he said would be available on his first day in office?

Rick Foster, Denver

New Panthers coach must be a firebrand

Regarding “Panthers owner Tepper ‘shakes the tree’ by firing Rivera” (Dec. 3):

Ron Rivera is a fine individual and represented the Panthers organization well over the years. Hope the new coach will be a firebrand like Steve Spurrier or Lou Holtz who’ll show some anger and a little giddyup and go.

David Tepper, if Cam Newton isn’t ready next year, please don’t bring in Colin Kaepernick because we already have Eric Reid not standing for our national anthem and don’t need another Panthers player disrespecting our flag.

Jim Cherry, Charlotte