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| June 11, 2017 1:00 AM

President Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord. I’ve read this document. I say to those who are experiencing apoplectic hysteria and the-world-is-coming-to-an-end tooth gnashing, might I suggest you read this agreement (not a treaty) with an open mind. I suspect you might agree with the president’s decision to withdraw.

Had our president decided to continue as a party to the Paris Accord it would have achieved at least four wonderful things: one, spend billions of taxpayer dollars; two, spend additional billions of taxpayer dollars; three, fund a huge international bureaucracy; four, spend even more taxpayer dollars while accomplishing nothing.

This Paris Accord is nothing more than a shakedown of American taxpayers for the benefit of a free-loading international bureaucracy, and numerous free-loading nations. Where our tax dollars would have gone is vague, to say the least, but you can be sure a multitude of corkscrew crooked bureaucratic drones would have pocketed the lion’s share of your hard-earned tax dollars.

Our pesident did the right thing.

God bless America, and God bless our military.

STEVE BRIXEN

Sandpoint