I love that Trump is willing to shut down the government

Shutdown is Trump keeping a promise

As most people are finding out, President Trump built his empire on being a strong and efficient negotiator.

Republicans have been weak with past government shutdowns and not shown that Democrats are equally to blame for these shutdowns.

I love that Trump is willing to shut down the government to continue to push the agenda he promised the American people.

We’re past due for a president who sticks to his promises and promotes the health of our country as his top priority.

I’d like Congress to call Trump’s bluff

Let me remind you who was going to pay for the border wall – Mexico!

Now who’s going to pay for it? You and me!

And if President Trump doesn’t get his monument to an over-inflated ego, he is going to shut down the government.

Congress should call his bluff. Shutting down the government is short-sighted, economically devastating, and a bullying stunt. Support for such outrageous actions is almost laughable.

You’re making me want to march at RNC

Forum writer Shirley Evans, I am a 79-year-old woman and you have just incited me to march.

I believe in the right to participate in peaceful demonstration, freedom of or from religion, and equal rights for all.

Instead of stating punitive policies, I would like to see those large signs you advocate read that Charlotte welcomes – with open arms – all those who come for the RNC.

Manafort is being used to ‘get Trump’

Paul Manafort is charged with some 32 counts of income tax evasion, money laundering and bank fraud. Notice that nowhere is there a charge of collusion with the Russians or attempting to interfere with the 2016 election.

I thought that was what Robert Mueller was “charged” to investigate.

If you are looking at 20 to 30 years in federal prison, I would expect you to say anything Mueller wants you to say to reduce that. Enough said.

Collusion? Maybe not, but keep digging

Maybe there is no crime of collusion, but if conspiracy were proved the conspiracy evidence might establish other crimes, such as campaign finance violations with respect to soliciting a thing of value from a foreign government, namely damaging information.

So we need to know what the Trump Tower meeting was about and whether anyone made a false statement to the government about it.

No tolls until I-485 has 3 free lanes

As anyone who battles afternoon rush hour traffic in south Charlotte knows, the bottleneck starts where the road goes from three lanes to two and backs up from there. DOT’s new plan will just shift the bottleneck down one exit from Rea Road to Providence Road.

Sharing a lesson on race, good hearts

Saturday, my wife and I were at a Walgreen’s in east Charlotte when our car battery died.

Why do I tell this story? Mom and her kids were black and my wife and I are white. In this time of racial tensions they proved that good hearts don’t have a color. We all should remember that.