Letters: Myriad solutions | Clinton effect | Measures of fitness | Biden’s experience | Federal teeth

Re: “ ” (Page A1, May 6). I agree with many of the points made in this article. I also believe that rehabilitation is an important and helpful tool for helping those affected by this crisis.

I also believe that understanding the dangers and educating the public of the risks and dangers through school programs is very important. I do not know whether legal supervised drug use should be illegal, I think that we can only find out by trying it out. It seems to be a possible solution, sacrificing widespread drug usage for a lower number of overdoses.

With public knowledge about drugs, I hope we will be able to reduce drug usage among all people in America. In “ ” (Page A6, June 7) Mark z. Barabak writes mainly of campaigning and many visits to California.

Bill Clinton didn’t do any favors to either California or America. Dan Walters’ “ ” (Page A7, June 7) is a direct result of California’s blue policies as the exodus of entrepreneurs along with an influx of immigrants and welfare seekers carries the double whammy of decreasing job opportunities and increasing the tax burden. Clinton’s impact on the nation was even worse.

After the end of the Cold War, we had a possibility of staying a creditor nation until Clinton wasted the Reagan peace dividend by putting so much money into promotion of the great American dream of home ownership that the country went through the two housing-created recessions and became forever in debt to China and developed an addiction to printing money. Re: “ ” (Page A7, June 7). An op-ed in Wednesday’s Mercury News raised the question of whether various people were too old for office (Dianne Feinstein, Joe Biden, Donald Trump).

I don’t believe age is what we should be looking at. A person is fit for office if they meet certain, physical, mental and moral standards. Feinstein is no longer mentally fit; Trump is not morally fit; Biden and any number of other Democrats and Republicans are fit.

We should have no problem finding fit and capable people for office. I believe the recent debt-ceiling resolution highlights a very positive aspect of President Biden’s age, a topic that has been much discussed of late. In this case, his advanced years signify that his political career reaches back to a time when bipartisanship, compromise, duty to country and general civility were common elements of politics.

He has an understanding of the negotiated settlement of issues that the younger crop of Congress members have never seen or attempted in this era of all-out partisan war. Our society is not one that places great value on the wisdom of elders; this is a prime example of why it should. When the governor of Florida was less than two years old, Fidel Castro boatlifted thousands of migrants to that state causing chaos and disruption that lasted for years.

Now, apparently, this governor takes a page from Castro’s playbook to commit the same vindictive act against Martha’s Vineyard and Sacramento reportedly using a lie that jobs would be awaiting the migrants upon their arrival. These acts are not only small-minded gotcha tactics, but possibly fraud involving interstate commerce due to the promise of employment. Maybe an Attorney General Rob Bonta referral to the U.

S. Attorney for prosecutorial review might add a prong to his response. .