Letters: Cutting protections for most vulnerable shows U.S. is devolving

I’ve known several Asian people, from China and Thailand, who expressed admiration at the way the United States takes care of its elderly citizens. They told me I was lucky, because when I got old I would have Social Security and Medicare to protect me against poverty and illness. They wished their own countries would take care of their aging populations in the same way.

Under our current Republican administration, Congress and the Supreme Court, the USA is devolving to become like countries that allow elderly citizens to exist and die in squalor and misery. I am troubled and ashamed as they strip away protection after protection from the poorest, weakest and oldest among us.

I fear for future generations.

Carl B. Clark, Magna