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RFK continues to earn from drug disputes if he is confirmed as an HHS secretary
Ethical data shows that Robert F. Kennedy is planning to continue to collect reimbursements related to earlier references during his appointment as HHS secretary.
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- If Kennedy takes over the Ministry of Health, Americans will die
- Let’s make sure that the 250th birthday party in America is great
- Iowa has no independent representatives in the congress
- Exciting violent attacks on the police is unforgivable
- Republicans embrace nonsense, no common sense
- Why did hands -free driving last so long?
If Kennedy takes over the Ministry of Health, Americans will die
We know what damage will be caused and which lives will be lost if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in charge of our health care system, because we have seen it in action. Kennedy has a well -documented history of resistance against life -saving vaccines, and he has promised to stop financing research into treatments and healings for fatal diseases.
Nevertheless, Kennedy was nominated to lead HHS, the Ministry of Health and Human Services, and Senator Joni Ernst hinted his appointment. If President Donald Trump gets his way, HHS’s head, the agency that was designed to “improve the health, safety and well -being of America”, would be a man who is so opposed to facts and science, that our nation You can have to deal with a deadly disaster. Review of teething problems such as polio and measles.
We earn better than this. Kennedy will threaten the lives of Iowans. Kennedy is not only against life -saving vaccines, but he also said that he “does not believe that infectious diseases pose a huge threat to human health” and has promised to stop financing research into treatments and healings. Kennedy will hollow out public health institutions that protect Americans against infectious diseases and contaminated food, and he will put vital programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, in great danger.
Kennedy’s conspiracy theories against vaccination already have fatal consequences. After his visit to Samoa in 2019, where Kennedy met the prime minister and other controversial figures, 83 people were killed in a devastating outbreak of measles, mainly babies and children. The widespread fear and distrust of vaccines was maintained by Kennedy’s wrong information and hard rhetoric that opposed the attempts to curb the outbreak. The Governor of Hawaii and Arts in the first aid department Josh Green, who was sent to Samoa during the outbreak, said the outbreak “was largely caused by RFK Jr.” and called him “a terrible choice for HHS secretary.”
The devastating events that followed his visit to Samoa could be a taste of what will happen if Kennedy is at the helm of the public health care system of our country. HHS is responsible for approving medicines, supervising vaccines, financing life -saving research and coordinating reactions – for everything from pandemies to natural disasters.
If Kennedy is in charge of the American health care system, people throughout the country will get sick and die.
The American people earn a leader at HHS who believes in science, who believes in vaccines, and who is committed to reducing costs and protecting health care coverage. Kennedy will not trust the science and the experts, but instead he will continue his campaign to distribute dangerous disinformation. The consequences of Kennedy’s leading HHS would threaten every household in Iowa and the entire country.
John Forbes, Urbandal, former State Representative
Let’s make sure that the 250th birthday party in America is great
How do we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in Iowa in 2026? Has Governor Kim Reynolds appointed a committee to plan the celebration of our state? Are we planning to keep an extra special Iowa State Fair with an exhibition over 250 years? Should we invite President Donald Trump and other foreign leaders to the fair to celebrate this?
We must now start planning this huge party. We have to build an exhibition of the Epcot Center type with a theater on the exhibition site where Iowans and visitors can witness our 250 years of history. We can complete it completely with a gigantic fireworks in the stands and invite Lee Greenwood to come and sing his famous song.
I am sure that other states will celebrate big parties, but we should celebrate our 250th anniversary at the best state fair in the world, the Iowa State Fair.
Tony Powers, West-des Moines
Iowa has no independent representatives in the congress
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst-indeed, our entire Iowa delegation to the congress-have given their blessing to the grace of President Donald Trump to the more than 1,500 people who attacked our democracy and plundered the capitol of our country four years ago . Why? Grassley probably gave the most pathetic excuse. “Following the precedent of Biden … it is difficult for me to criticize Trump.”
Really, Chuck? Do you not see the difference? Neither Hunter Biden nor anyone from the Biden family destroyed the Capitol or tried to undo an election they were angry about because they had lost. This also applied to those who granted Biden Grace to protect against Trumps promise of ‘retribution’. Four years ago, Ernst called the entire test ‘horrible’ and said that the perpetrators “should all be prosecuted in the broadest sense of the law.” And as a member of the Senate Committee for Justice, she promised to “compete to make that possible.” Of course she didn’t.
But that was then and this is now. Whatever reputation Grassley and Ernst might have had as an independent representatives of the people who have disappeared.
They are both only political hacks, and that has been the case for a while. It’s shameless!
Richard Maynard, Indianola
Exciting violent attacks on the police is unforgivable
Imagine that an angry group of citizens, some armed, invade the Capitol of Iowa and our legislators, governor and lieutenant governor threaten with physical injury.
While we protect our chosen officials, members of the police of the Moines and the Iowa State Patrol are injured, some serious. Is there a scenario in which the forgiveness of those who have attacked our law enforcement officers is acceptable?
So how can President Donald Trump say that he supports the police and at the same time grabs the ones who have damaged them?
Dorothy Lifka, des Moines
Republicans embrace nonsense, no common sense
State representative Steve Holt from Denison was interviewed on January 21 at Iowa Public Radio and said that the agenda of President Donald Trump and that of the Republicans in Iowa revolves around common sense.
It is not common sense if those who were found to be guilty of harming and causing the death of security agents on January 6. In restoring law practices, the perpetrator must be held responsible for his violation and, if possible, meet his victim. If these conditions are not met, there is no reconciliation.
Moreover, it was the Republicans who called Blue Lives Matter when Afro-Americans marched through the streets. Apparently there is not really concern about the blue side of the right, because their leader ignored the police involved in the riot of January 6. What we call that in midwest is nonsense!
Denny Coon, Ankeny
Why did hands -free driving last so long?
I found the Register story ‘legislators urge again to ban telephones while driving’ very interesting because this bill, or a similar version, is being discussed since 2018. Everyone who is cited in the play was optimistic that the bill would be adopted this year. It was not mentioned who is against this bill, neither now nor in the past. I know that common sense has been in fashion for a decade or so, but who would be against this bill and, more importantly, why are they against it?
Dan Walter, West-des Moines
