Trump must accept defeat; travel industry is being crushed
Accept your loss, Mr. President
Our president can’t believe that Joe Biden was elected with more than 80 million votes.
What I can’t believe is that he had 74 million misguided individuals vote for him.
This week, the self-admitted treasonous welp that he pardoned, Michael Flynn, tweeted an advertisement published by The Washington Times that suggested that Trump should “suspend the Constitution” to hold a new “free and fair” election.
Trump lost the election. He refuses to accept that, and so do his supporters. All his life, he either won or when he didn’t, he used the legal system to wear his opponents down until they gave up.
Not this time. No. If you don’t accept the facts, then that’s your problem. I love my country so much that I devoted four years of my life to serve in it in the Navy. I refuse to let him or anyone else turn the Constitution upside down.
I have respected every president in all my 63-plus years of existence. Respect has to be earned. Trump has done anything but earned mine. Nor have his followers.
— Timothy Moore, Wilmington
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The travel industry is being crushed
Every business in the country has been impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another. But few sectors have been as hard hit, or face a longer road to recovery, than the travel agency industry. According to the American Society of Travel Advisors, with business at a standstill and no end to the pandemic in sight, 64 percent of travel agencies in the U.S. have laid off at least half of their staff — even with the federal relief programs provided by the CARES Act in March. What’s more, over 70 percent will go out of business within the next six months without additional federal relief.
Without that relief, the travel agency sector is looking at an extinction-level event. This would deprive the traveling public of the critical services travel advisors provide and travel suppliers’ (airlines, hotels, cruise lines, etc.) main distribution channel crippled.
My message to our elected officials on behalf of the 140,000 people who work at travel agencies across the country is simple: Get back to work and support the small businesses who desperately need your help. Doing nothing is not an option. The future of our country depends on it.
— Jay Ellenby, Bel Air, Maryland