Letter to the editor: Venting on vaccine, stimulus, career politicians

Thanks to the Tribune-Review for printing my 2020 opinions. Let me wrap up my 2020 venting with the following.

For months we were promised the vaccine would be given to health care providers and elderly in nursing homes first. Then I see politicians and their spouses (Jill Biden) receiving it. Come on, man! No malarky! Hypocrites!

I called my health care provider, which is owned by CVS (designated vaccine distributor), and asked what the protocol is for a 68-year-old with underlying conditions. They could not answer. WTH?

I contacted Rep. Guy Reschenthaler and Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey about all this a week or so ago. Crickets!

I heard someone suggest LeBron James get the vaccine as a “role model.” Really?

Bureaucrats and the wealthy tell us to stay home and cancel holidays while they live unrestricted. Rules for thee but not for me!

New covid-19 relief “stimulus” looks more like elite rulers throwing scraps to the masses while pork goes to “the arts,” public education and Palestine, to mention a few. A pattern here? Outrageous!

And why do I feel I am being “ruled,” not governed? Socialism?

I’m not an H.L. Mencken fan, but as he said, “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.”

So what are we to do? Surround the capital with pitchforks and force them out? Voting does not seem to work and it seems to be more corrupt than ever as rulers keep designing ways to “hold the castle.”

Career politicians are ruining our America!

Michael J. Kardell

Murrysville