DEAR EDITOR:

One crisis follows another so closely our memories on enormous calamities brought on our country by the Biden administration are replaced or diluted; or as the administration hopes that collectively “we turn the page” and move on.

Let’s refresh our memories: the Keystone Pipeline was stopped quickly by this fossil-fuel-hating regime, resulting in loss of energy independence and higher prices for gasoline, home heating and other petroleum-based commodity. Worse, we are again dependent on OPEC to set world oil quantities and prices.

Our geography teachers explained countries are defined by borders. Literally speaking, we have no southern border. Mayorkas says our border is closed. Believe him or your eyes. Illegal immigrants flow non-stop, as well as COVID-19 and illegal drugs like fentanyl. There is ample evidence “got-a-ways” include gang members and people from unfriendly regimes. Current cost to our treasury is only outweighed by long-term damage to our culture.

Afghanistan is a stain on our nation: leaving citizens and allies behind, moving thousands into our country with little to no vetting, losing 13 soldiers and hundreds of Afghans through ineffective security. Then, the “righteous strike” on terrorists, which actually was the droning of 10 noncombatants, including two children. There’s more to this bedlam. Biden left 600,000 small arms, 30,000,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 aircraft and 75,000 vehicles — $83 billion in state-of-the-art war material — in the hands of terrorists. We lost all this, plus “trust” — who wants us as allies?

We are seeing the worst rise in inflation since 1990. We need $1.08 to purchase what $1 purchased in 2019. Biden doesn’t need to raise taxes, just print more money. More dollars in our system will cause inflation — a tax on everything and everyone!

The most recent fiasco is our Department of Justice and FBI focusing on parents at board of education meetings who have had the audacity to challenge what children are being taught, labeling them as domestic terrorists.

The Biden administration uses race, COVID-19 and Jan. 6 to distract from horrific division and damage it inflicts on our nation. This strategy must be working on the 38 percent who think Biden is doing a good job.

As resilient as our culture and nation have proven to be, it is difficult to maintain hope knowing that Kamala Harris (28 percent approval) is Biden’s backup. Or that Nancy Pelosi (21 percent approval) is next after Harris, then Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Treasury, Janet Yellen, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and finally Attorney General Merrick Garland.

If you want to rest easy, take a sleeping pill.

JOE LoCICERO

Canfield