Does It Matter To You?
April 2, 2025 at 4:14 p.m.
Editor, Times-Union:
If you or your dad or mom cannot get treatment at a VA hospital? If your child’s HeadStart program gets cancelled?
If you or a parent loses Social Security benefits?
If your experimental cancer treatment is canceled because funding for medical research has been cut off?
If your wife bleeds out in a parking lot because a doctor is threatened with jail time if he treats her ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage?
If you lose your Medicaid benefits?
If Grandma or Grandpa loses Medicare or Medicaid and their nursing home closes?
If your 401K you’ve been counting on for retirement disappears?
If the Social Security fund you paid into all your working life no longer exists and you have no source of income in your retirement?
If the neighbor you share recipes with gets deported without cause?
If someone you love is abducted by masked strangers, forced into an unmarked vehicle, and sent out of state to be imprisoned for possibly voicing opinions unacceptable to a law-breaking autocrat?
If you can’t afford a car, or clothing, or even groceries because there are tariffs/taxes on everything?
If a tornado destroys your home and you had no warning ahead of time due to weather service cuts?
If your public school no longer has funds for your special needs child?
If you discover you could be “snatched” off the street and sent away to parts unknown because you said something that displeased a dictator?
If the U.S. has no allies because our self-appointed “king” has alienated and tariffed them to death?
If WW3 begins because said king and his billionaire jester can never be rich enough or control enough territory?
If the newly defined military of “warriors” is sent to “control” citizens in the streets for standing up and speaking out to maintain their rights?
If you look around and see the only people left standing with you are full of hate and prejudice and ignorance?
If you realize you’ve been idolizing and voting for people who have lied to you, scammed you, and belittled you only to enrich themselves and all their rich buddies?
If you realize all the people you have been ridiculing, mocking, shaming, deriding, are the ones who have been fighting for your rights all along?
If any of these possible scenarios matter to you, when will it be too late to care …
Today? Tomorrow? Next month? Next year?
The current administration is plowing through the Project 2025 agenda. Thousands of citizens are peacefully protesting daily in cities/counties/states across the country. Now is the time to speak out before the oligarchs in charge decide to institute the Insurrection Act, which will make speaking out a crime and could very likely lead to violence …. which just might be the plan in order to complete the takeover and control of the population.
Don’t wait until it is too late. The time for action is now.
Jeanne Tuka Schutz
Winona Lake, via email
Editor, Times-Union:
If you or your dad or mom cannot get treatment at a VA hospital? If your child’s HeadStart program gets cancelled?
If you or a parent loses Social Security benefits?
If your experimental cancer treatment is canceled because funding for medical research has been cut off?
If your wife bleeds out in a parking lot because a doctor is threatened with jail time if he treats her ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage?
If you lose your Medicaid benefits?
If Grandma or Grandpa loses Medicare or Medicaid and their nursing home closes?
If your 401K you’ve been counting on for retirement disappears?
If the Social Security fund you paid into all your working life no longer exists and you have no source of income in your retirement?
If the neighbor you share recipes with gets deported without cause?
If someone you love is abducted by masked strangers, forced into an unmarked vehicle, and sent out of state to be imprisoned for possibly voicing opinions unacceptable to a law-breaking autocrat?
If you can’t afford a car, or clothing, or even groceries because there are tariffs/taxes on everything?
If a tornado destroys your home and you had no warning ahead of time due to weather service cuts?
If your public school no longer has funds for your special needs child?
If you discover you could be “snatched” off the street and sent away to parts unknown because you said something that displeased a dictator?
If the U.S. has no allies because our self-appointed “king” has alienated and tariffed them to death?
If WW3 begins because said king and his billionaire jester can never be rich enough or control enough territory?
If the newly defined military of “warriors” is sent to “control” citizens in the streets for standing up and speaking out to maintain their rights?
If you look around and see the only people left standing with you are full of hate and prejudice and ignorance?
If you realize you’ve been idolizing and voting for people who have lied to you, scammed you, and belittled you only to enrich themselves and all their rich buddies?
If you realize all the people you have been ridiculing, mocking, shaming, deriding, are the ones who have been fighting for your rights all along?
If any of these possible scenarios matter to you, when will it be too late to care …
Today? Tomorrow? Next month? Next year?
The current administration is plowing through the Project 2025 agenda. Thousands of citizens are peacefully protesting daily in cities/counties/states across the country. Now is the time to speak out before the oligarchs in charge decide to institute the Insurrection Act, which will make speaking out a crime and could very likely lead to violence …. which just might be the plan in order to complete the takeover and control of the population.
Don’t wait until it is too late. The time for action is now.
Jeanne Tuka Schutz
Winona Lake, via email