To the Editor:

This letter is to just address the issue of why “We won’t go back.”

From personal experience, I was only one of two women in my High School class who wanted to go into a “man’s” career, ie Accounting. I was also the only woman in my college class to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. When it was time to get a job, I went to work for the IRS, because corporations were not hiring women accountants. I also remember when living in Bridgeport, the oily film on my car from the effects of fossil fuel burning in the factories. So no, I don’t want to go back.

I don’t want to go back to a time when woman couldn’t

Get a credit card, a loan, or a mortgage without a man’s signature.

Get a job in a “man’s” career.

Control their own reproductive rights

I don’t want to go back to a time when lack of regulations led to

Love Canal

Enron Collapse

Stock Market Crash

Housing Collapse

Discrimination based on sex, race or religion

Environmental pollution

I don’t want to go back to a time without

Social Security

Medicare

The Affordable Care Act

I urge everyone to read Project 2025 and decide if that is what you want to go back to. I would also urge you to do some research and get the facts on who controls the cost of gas, food and drugs. It is not the government, it is the oligarchic corporations who set the prices at not what the market will bear, but what they can get away with. Fewer government regulations the GOP is espousing will only make that worse.

Toni Cargill

Sandy Hook