Letters to the editor Sept. 4

Glacier traffic

After driving through Glacier Park again for probably the 20th time this year, I have been noticing that no one is collecting entry fees at Many Glacier and Two Medicine. I was in contact with a park spokesman and was told due to a lack of personnel that they made the decision to not man the entry booths and let people go in for free.

We see the constant vehicle traffic going into Many Glacier and Two Medicine areas and it makes you wonder ,how much money is not being collected.

Another issue is the Many Glacier road, which is putting dust clouds hundreds of feet in the air. I was told by the spokesperson that dirt roads are dusty. We have also noticed a brand new grader sitting at Many Glacier and very seldom used.

I encourage the Glacier Park folks that make these decisions to drive up the west shore of the Duck Lake road to see how well mag chloride works to contain dust. The trees, birds, plants and animals would thank you.

— Lewis Moore, Rollins

Always a victim

As a nation (i.e. the GOP and other folks) we need to quit giving Donald Trump a free pass. He loves playing the victim card, but in reality he isn’t a victim.

Once we do that, we can move on as a nation, we can shift our focus and concentrate on governing and addressing issues important to the American people, instead of pampering to one man’s every whim! Just saying!

— Linda Edwards, Polson

Economic advice

California legislates against individual choice in motor vehicles – from a front page article in the Aug. 26 Inter Lake.

After a certain date you will no longer have the right to buy a gas fueled car in California. Clearly a violation of individual rights.

And car companies will no longer have the right to sell gas fueled cars. Clearly a corruption of the free market.

These environmental elitists have no understanding of basic economic laws. You cannot legislate away economic laws, they will always come back to bite you. This will hurt the working poor the most and the well off the least. This will create a black market in automobiles, a flight of the working middle class out of California, increased unemployment, and further decay of the cities.

California really needs some good economic advice from Larry Kudlow, Milton Friedman, Steve Forbes, and anybody else who has a good high school education.

— William Fry, Kalispell

Veteran vote

I went to war. I know what that looked like, smelled like, felt like. I know what the result of a fight was.

A politician like John Fuller claims to fight for me, if only I give him my veteran vote. It looks disingenuous, it has a suspicious smell and feels sordid.

I would rather a candidate tell me, “No promises. I will work for the common good. You, as a veteran, are part of that common good.”

That is what I hear from Kyle Waterman. Work , not drama. He will work for the common good of the citizens of Flathead County.

— Roy H. Caldwell, Kalispell

Fear the FBI

Tell me you’re not afraid of the FBI knocking on your door in the wee hours of the morning, escorting you out of your house to stand in the street in your pajamas to wait for hours while strangers go through and take your stuff because of your political beliefs, with the possibility of being charged with a crime and thrown into prison on trumped up charges, you should be afraid.

If this could be done to Donald Trump, a former President, the FBI can easily do it to you. Don’t forget the 87,000 new IRS agents that are about to be hired to come after you, your business and your family for any kind of tax infraction.

After all, the government has to pay for the new green deal, aka the Inflation Reduction Act somehow and the middle class is where the ruling elitists have decided that money will come from. Yes, the fear is real.

We truly have reached a dangerous place.

And the sad part is, we have done this to ourselves. Be mindful of who you vote for because our government is a reflection of us. We can stop this decay and restore freedom by standing up and voting the politicians out that spread this destruction and fear.

I’m hoping its not too late and that the pain you are experiencing in the form of the high cost of gas, food, housing and utilities that is being inflicted on us by our own government will motivate you to vote and stop the madness of a corrupt out of control government hell bent on destroying the middle class. How did we get here? — Susan Taylor, Bigfork