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Dear Editor: Recently, I asked family members and friends: What are your main concerns in 2024?

The concerns centered around: climate change and the environment; support for public schools; gerrymandering and redistricting; the slaughter of children by high-powered rifles; Social Security and Medicare; increasing the number of charging stations; using money from the military budget for people programs like education, health care and child care; disinformation and lies; Citizens United decision; and much more.

One person mentioned rights: for women to make their own decisions regarding their bodies; for children to have adequate food, shelter, education, medical care, to be free from violence of any kind; to grow up in a country that respects the laws and the Constitution.

Another person mentioned the survival of our present form of government (democracy, aka republic) and Project 2025.

What is Project 2025?

The Heritage Foundation, along with about 70 other wealthy think tanks, has written a 1,000 page handbook that will be put in place on Day One should Donald Trump or another Republican be elected in November 2024.

The goal includes: firing 50,000 federal workers and filling these positions with "like-minded officials eager to fulfill the new executive's approach to governing."

The plan includes: defunding the Department of Justice; dismantling the FBI; breaking up the Department of Homeland Security; eliminating the departments of Education and Commerce; deregulating targeted industries; privatizing government functions at the expense of the middle class, not the very wealthy. This is a short list of what will be done.

What will we do in the next eight months to assure our present system of government survives?

Joyce Luedke

Weston

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