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Letter: Actor wrong to give voting advice
Jim Schmitz
Jun. 9, 2016 1:00 am
Matt Damon gives a commencement speech to MIT graduates and takes cheap shots at Donald Trump and Wall Street. Really? He makes millions of dollars a year pretending to be someone else in movies, flies around the world in his Learjet and lives in a home that burns more fossil fuel in a day above an average American home.
He lives in a culture - Hollywood - that is a drug infested, alcohol-abusing phony atmosphere, yet tells young people how to vote? Really?
We have approximately half the people in our country who are Republicans and half Democrats - does he realize he destroys half his client base when he takes sides? Who is the stupid one?
Jim Schmitz
Marion
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