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They come for America’s freebies

The people flooding across the border aren’t all coming for work. I would guess that half or more are coming for the free lunch that America has become.

The governor has said that the only solution to homelessness is to build and give away houses to homeless people. Working people will still have to sign 30-year mortgages and pay for theirs. Add in free food stamps, free medical care, and subsidized everything else, and why would people work?

I’m not picking on the illegal migrants. If I was in their shoes, I’d come, too. I blame the government; this current bunch is taking a wrecking ball to this country.

Richard Oliver, Modesto

Not a fan

Marjorie Taylor Greene has demonstrated the axiom “Better to remain quiet and thought a blithering idiot than to open your mouth and proven one.”

At the State of the Union speech, President Biden stressed the importance of bipartisanship in these divisive, troubled times. The classless, buffoonish Greene repeatedly stood up and bellowed “Liar!” displaying her lack of grace and abundance of stupidity.

More from Ms. Greene: She states our government has spent over $5.1 billion of COVID-19 funds to promote the critical race theory program for one school district in Illinois. She asserts that our government has shelled out millions of dollars of COVID funds for federally funded abortions and for drag queen story hours for second- and third-graders at targeted schools. She urged Congress that federal money would be better spent investigating Nancy Pelosi’s ties with a major pizza chain responsible for running the largest child trafficking operation in the world.

Ms. Greene is indeed Making America Great Again, one humiliation at a time.

Brooks Judd, Turlock

Supporting the arts

Re “$1.8M art grant to help disadvantaged in Stanislaus County” (Page 3A, Feb. 6): I add two important facts missing from this article.

The total grant amount going to Stanislaus County is $1.97 million. $1.808 million of it goes directly to artists either as salary or support (studio space, materials, equipment, etc.) The difference between $1.97 million and $1.808 million is the $165,529 that the designated State and Local Partner (Central California Art League, legally organized in 1957) to the California Arts Council (as of 2020), or the county arts council, for the administration of this grant.

One of the key outcomes that the California Arts Council intends from this grant is employing artists “who identify as representing communities residing in the lowest quartile of the California Healthy Places Index.” Significant outreach to artists in these communities is required to comply with the intent of this taxpayer-funded grant.

There is another administering organization through which local artists and organizations representing artists can apply for grant money originating from the California Arts Council for the California Creative Corp grant. That organization is KDA Creative Corp. Reach them at bonjour@kdacreativecorps.org.

Laura Stokes, Modesto

Find a better use

A considerable amount of water is used by farmers in Southern California to grow alfalfa exported for cattle in Arabia. Who owns the farms is unimportant. Colorado River water should not be used to benefit a foreign country. Beef is an unnecessary luxury.

Michael Hauschild, Modesto

Sticking together

Recently your newspaper featured an article about a couple who have been married 60 years. We add our congratulations and wish them many more healthy and happy years together. We know this first-hand, and understand the magnitude of that occasion. We have been married for 66 years and consider this quite an “achievement.”

Chuck and Marilyn Rowland, Modesto