The Mercury’s Sound Off for Friday, July 11

How stupid could someone be to think people would not figure out how to cheat on tolls using cameras to ID vehicles? They sure have saved big money by laying off toll collectors. Get the toll collectors back to work and collect cash on the spot. All these money-saving schemes never seem to work in the long run. Pennsylvania needs the revenue from the turnpike tolls.

Pottstown’s National Night Out event is unbelievable. Do they really think handing out free hot dogs and hamburgers is going to make Pottstown safer? I would bet 90% of the people who went there had no idea what the purpose is. It’s just a free meal. See how many would have shown up without free food.

Tom M

The Biden Crime Family is up to its eyeballs in documented hard evidence of bribery, money laundering, and influence peddling. Since these allegations involve a sitting president, is there any reason why this is not front-page news? Heck, I can’t even find it on the back page! The lamestream media has deprived Americans of this breaking news which is further evidence that they truly are the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.

Greg Levengood

Thursday’s AP article about the growing teacher shortages was downright offensive and nauseating. Rather than reporting on the primary cause of today’s teachers abandoning their profession in droves (i.e.-being forced to teach from a Democrat-crafted syllabus rooted in progressive indoctrination of our children), they blamed it on — wait for it — racism. They actually claimed (sans statistical evidence) that Black teachers are “expected” to give more of themselves than white teachers. How utterly infuriating!

Mrs. Crabtree

We were waiting for pills from our pharmacy so we called and they said they were out of stock. Got them somewhere else but this has never happened before. Prices for gas, home insurance, electricity, food, health insurance, and taxes, etc. have gone up tremendously … where is the Bidenomics. All I know is that that is bull and not helping anyone. Make a change vote Red!

Dot

Most doctors agree privately that unvaccinated kids are much healthier than fully vaccinated kids, with no exceptions. In fact, one doctor even bragged that she could pick out the one unvaxxed kid in a group of 50 kids who were vaxxed with all their childhood shots. Perhaps to a trained eye, it has become that obvious. Certainly, doctors’ records could provide the answer but they’re not talking for fear of losing everything.

Anti – Vaxxer

I see the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter was sentenced to the death penalty! Now we’ll have to support him for the rest of his life thanks to our gutless governor who opposes the death penalty!

Puggy

Should a recent story on public education have had as much of a gender focus as it did racial? The dearth of male role models in our urban centers, a product of the purposeful destruction of the nuclear family by the Democrat Party and the likes of BLM, could be addressed within the teaching ranks. One issue to be contended with? Men typically do not gravitate to teaching, particularly at the elementary level.

M. Furlong

Trump is correct. “They” (81 million Americans) denied “you” (74 million Americans) your President. None question how 80K votes in 3 states gave Trump the 2016 win, despite losing the popular vote (by 3 million). Was that rigged? FOX’s Kilmeade lied saying Hillary hasn’t yet admitted losing. She conceded the night of the election. He also claimed Smith was “nervous” reading his indictment statement on TV. Didn’t look nervous to me. I trust nothing from FOX.

It looks like Joe took millions from foreign governments from what has been gathered so far, but he’s really small potatoes compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Read “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer, it’s good. The surprising aspect of Joe’s mess is that the DNC, DOJ, and FBI knew all of this before the primaries started, and they allowed the guy to run for President. Why did they? Blame them!

H. John

Wow, even Ronna McDaniel was in on the conspiracy. Radical Republicans are corrupt all the way through: RNC Chairwoman forwarded to Trump, an email titled, “Electors Recap ~ Final,” which represented that in “Six Contested States” — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — Trumps’ fake electors had voted in parallel to Biden’s electors. The Defendants executive assistant responded, “It’s in front of him!”

Patriot54

Junior, you voted for Joe Biden so don’t talk to me about being uneducated. Dems be tripp’n!

Butch

To those people residing in Pennsylvania’s 26th State House District, keep a watchful eye on your representative. Paul Friel appears to be a man with unlimited ambition and a passion to implement his woke agenda upon an unsuspecting constituency … Beware!

President Biden recently announced that “we ended cancer as we know it.” This may come as a surprise to those struggling with this deadly disease.

Robert Minninger

Do you know the real reason China sent the “weather” balloon over the USA? That’s right, to give the “Big Guy,” aka. Joe Biden, something to talk about over dinner with Hunter’s business partners.

Billy G.

Someone just told me that Hollywood actors and writers have been on strike for months now. Who would’ve known? Just more proof of how insignificant the radically woke progressive elitist liberal entertainment industry is to the lives of most normal Americans.

Otis

Wow, I just read some of the transcripts from Devon Archer’s testimony about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s monkey business with foreign countries like Ukraine. A lot of talk about the weather, like “We would discuss having, you know, an understanding of D.C. and that was a differentiating component of us being able to raise capital.” But Joe was never involved in Burisma.

Jane Batdorf

Biden took office in January 2021 with an inflation rate of a little over 1%, which he hiked to 9% by June 2022 “Bidenomics” has been defined by 40-year-high inflation, record drops in labor productivity, anemic economic growth, growing credit card debt, rising interest rates, insipid labor force participation, onerous regulation, falling real incomes, and runaway government spending, borrowing, and printing of money. Distilled down to a single word, Bidenomics means “failure.”

Patriot45

My fondest dream is to have enough money to hire a priest, a minister, and a rabbi to walk into bars with me.

Bill Wilson

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