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We must defend
Foreign students’ rights
Re: “Loss or visas shakes universities” (page A1, April 8).
Grant Stringer reports that the Trump administration has revoked the visas of deans of students in the Bay area, simply to demonstrate or speak against the massacres financed by the United States in Gaza. Berkeley students, Stanford, the state of San José and other schools now face deportation and live in fear of ice raids.
These students have not violated laws. They are not endangering or damaging the Jews in any way. However, they are called terrorist and anti -Semitic support because oppositions for the massacre of Israel in the Middle East.
As a resident of the Jewish bay area, I say that protects these academics and all our rights to speak and protest. Our universities are among our greatest treasures; We must protect them from a government that attacks education and discourse, and calls it “fighting semitism.” These attacks are not trying to protect the Jews; It is about continuing the wars of Israel-United States.
David Spero
San Francisco
Require teaching children
About financial education
Financial education must be a mandatory class in secondary schools and universities. Many young people graduate without understanding how credit works, how to manage debt or even how to budget their income. These are real -life skills that affect all aspects of adult life, but they are or overlooked in our educational system.
With the increase in the debt of student loans, inflation and economic uncertainty, it is more important than ever teaching students how to make intelligent financial decisions. A required financial education course could cover issues such as saving, investing, credit, taxes and more, train students with the tools they need to succeed.
If we are really because to prepare the next generation for the future, we must stop tripling financial education as an option instead of a priority.
Edwyn Burgaraaria
San José
Rate strategy was
Built on another lie
It has been reported that Peter Navarro, who convinced Trump that tariffs are a great idea, had summoned an economic expert called Ron Vara to support his theory. It turns out that Vara is an invented person, a lies with Calva.
There was no expert, so the idea of the reckless use of tariffs that has shaken the world is based on fraud, as much more in this administration.
Larry Guernsey
San José
Doge defending is one
Who must open the eyes
Re: “Protest Doge, Musk” work (page A6, April 10).
Perhaps it is the Hollister writer who needs to “open his eyes.” Do you really believe that in a brief two weeks or two months, a careful analysis and audit were made to determine that more than 100,000 people should be fired from numerous government positions?
He believes there is a patriotic bone in Elon Musk’s body. But if there were, then Musk would not accept the contract money for his own benefit while working at the White House. It is a clear conflict or interest. Despite his suffering from the Tesla brand, he will earn millions of dollars behind the backs of the taxpayers.
Maxine Shea
San José
Tariffs fly on the face
or economic reality
President Trump’s tariffs are an effort of “Geld-Thy-Vecino”, a philosophy that believes that it is wise, equally brilliant, but it is not.
God bless Trump, because he needs a blessing. I should go to an economic church and listen to the sermon. You may learn something and change your behavior, but do not contain the breath that he or his advisors do this or the same or understand such ancient economic concepts.
Meanwhile, everyone’s economic situation will worsen, especially those of retirees and low -income families. What a crying of crying.
When adding the large number of government workers that Elon Musk, Trump’s not chosen oligarch co -chair), the situation in the United States only worsens. Especially cruel and onerous is to fire humanitarian workers, educators, researchers and veterans.
Normal citizens take your life vests. The American ship is sinking.
Larry Dorshkind
Redwood City
Column exposes
Pose of threat rates
Re: “How tariffs destroy what makes the United States great” (page 7, April 4).
What makes the United States great are columns like those of David Brooks.
Brooks begins including the bay area with the most innovative places in world history. It also refers to other writers, discussing places, networks and channels for ideas. It continues with the importance of the great universities of the United States that include foreign students. And finally, Brooks describes the values that make the United States so great, in a word: cosmopolitan … have roots in a city, but “treasury and learning” of others.
I will practice what your column preaches tonight “putting myself in an unknown situation”: dance room dance with an area of the bay and an Asian atmosphere.
Jerry Sheahan
San José