Budget Home ad

I’m calling to compliment you on the paper May 17, where the outer piece of paper ad was Budget Home Supply instead of … alcohol. … I appreciate that, so I thank you for covering it with Budget Home.

Costly parade

• So our president has decided … to cut … Medicaid; (eliminate) all kinds of projects; (take) money away from PBS; and (is) telling me that my granddaughter can’t have more than two dolls, but yet he’s going to spend $45 million on a … parade …, just like his cohorts in Russia, North Korea and China. … $45 million, can you believe it?

• So while America sacrifices and suffers with tariffs, Trump is planning a very costly military parade. … Seems fair, doesn’t it?

Credit rating

Two days now, and nothing in your paper about Moody’s downgrading the credit rating of the United States of America, which means that everybody’s going to be paying more for everything, including on our debt that we owe. Donald Trump … wants to add another $5 trillion this year. That means anybody with any adjustable rate — credit card, home loan, anything — is going to be paying more money, folks. … This wonderful nirvana he’s painted for you doesn’t exist.