News at year’s end was the typical recap of events, including the employment forecast, featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene’s assertion that immigrants were stealing American jobs. To debunk that claim, one has only to look at the election of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). It has come to light that Mr. Santos lied about his academic and employment histories, claiming to have earned a degree when he actually never graduated. He also claimed to have had jobs at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup when he never did a day’s work for either. He also identified as Jewish until he was forced to engage in a bit of semantics when that also was exposed as a lie.

Now he says that he is “Jew-ish,” whatever that means. And he vows to take his seat in January. The U.S. Congress must be one of the few places on the planet where an applicant can lie about his education and employment history, get caught, and still report for work. The GOP is obviously hurting for qualified candidates, and the leadership is once again notably silent about their newest recruit. His election does, however, serve a greater purpose than the triumph of venality over principle. Ms. Greene’s observation about immigrant workers has been proven wrong by Mr. Santos’s election. The position that was originally reserved for patriots has indeed been stolen but not by immigrants. This heist was committed by a bona fide American citizen, born and abetted by the party’s leadership. Sadly, truth is now endangered remnant of what we once were.

Charles Huckelbury

Henniker

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