Wrong choice

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Wrong choice

It is interesting to see that the people who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump actually voted against themselves.

With a Trump presidency, there will be rollbacks in all the policies that were enacted to help the working class, including Obamacare, which has given healthcare to more than 20 million people; raising the minimum wage to lift them out of poverty; and Medicare that retired workers need.

It’s ironic that working-class people voted for a man and a party that will take away all these benefits that would have made their lives better.

Betty Fleisher, Aventura

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Vote for civility and ethics for better local governments

By Jim Cason, former mayor, Coral Gables, Merrett R. Stierheim, former Miami-Dade County manager

February 20, 2019 01:36 PM

There are many important municipal elections scheduled this year throughout Miami-Dade County. The impact of those elections on local residents spans across many issues, like personal safety and security, taxation, and neighborhood recareation programs.

Because these issues often affect the quality of residential life and the delivery of municipal public services, residents should take more than passing interest in who their candidates are and what they stand for. It is most important for all of us to become informed and vote.