Letter to the Editor: Submitted by Dick & Betty Dinan

To the Editor:

As we citizens watched many of our services being threatened in the past several months, we decided it was time to write this letter.

What are we concerned for? Here is a list of eight areas being threatened:
1. No cancer research.
2. No Social Security.
3. No disaster relief.
4. No clean energy.
5. No free lunch.
6. No Medicare.
7. No Medicaid.
8. No SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).

Have our Iowa legislators representing us in Washington, D.C. supported getting rid of these services? How do we feel about this? Sad and shocked.

What can we do? Write letters or call our Iowa legislators - our Senators and Representatives. Here is a phone number to reach them: 888-754-9086. Let’s do this; they represent us.

How can we stand by and let our kids, grandkids and great-grandkids suffer if these services are gone? Hoping if we care, we can change this.

Dick & Betty Dinan
Elkader