The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, Jan. 21

Obviously, test scores are through the roof at Boyertown and the school board has nothing better to do than spend $7 million or so on artificial turf. And to top it off they talk about using COVID money on artificial turf because God knows there isn’t anything better to spend it on. What does artificial turf have to do with COVID anyway?

Joe

Well, we are getting a 3.2% increase on our Social Security, but Medicare Part B is increased by $9.80 per month, Montgomery County taxes as well as Pottstown Borough and school taxes are increasing. I actually will be getting less this year than I was getting. How does this help us to do better with less? This makes no sense.

A very Senior citizen

Another first for Joe Biden: The Fed said it lost roughly $114.3 billion in 2023, its largest-ever annual loss. The losses occurred because the money the Fed pays banks for reserves held at the central bank exceeded the interest earned on the mortgage and Treasury bonds it holds. That is Bidenomics in a nutshell and it will all come crashing down shortly.

Dan Fields

Just curious radical Republicans, are you tired of losing yet? Doesn’t seem like it from radical Republican Sound Offers, spouting the same losing messages over and over again. The majority of voters disagree with your current rhetoric, but by all means, keep losing. The majority prefer it that way.

Patriot54

Hey KC, Sam Tasik’s posts don’t make you a liar but your unfounded posts sure do. Cutting and pasting things from Democrat internet websites is what you do. Your nonsense is ridiculous.

Jane Batdorf

Hey Patriot 54, If we were not uninformed low-IQ voters, we would be able to see the advantage of being invaded by illegal aliens. paying high prices for everything, and having less money. Not drilling for for oil. So as an uninformed low-IQ voter, I will vote for Donald Trump and “Make America Great Again.”

Ernman

Another nail in the consumers’ coffin. In 2023, automobile insurance saw its greatest year-over-year increase in 50 years, 20.3%.

President Biden continues to deny that he had any involvement in the Trump prosecutions. This appears to be as much of a lie as his claim that he did not know about Hunter’s business deals. Expense reimbursement requests from the local prosecutor in the Georgia election interference trial prove that the prosecutor had multiple meetings at the White House before charging Trump.

Robert Minninger

American Gonzalo Lira was one of the few truth tellers throughout the Ukraine/Russia conflict. For this, he was imprisoned by the Zelenskyy Regime with the apparent blessing of the Biden Administration. He predicted that he would die in prison and, according to reports, his prophesy proved correct. This was a war that our government, defense contractors and media wanted and instigated. It has made the term “ugly American” fashionable again.

M. Furlong

For their mental and physical well-being, we all pray KC, Lefty, RealAmerica, Patriot54, Jay Miller, and The Moderate tap into their Obamacare coverage in 2024 and get the professional help they need to quickly manage their Trump Derangement Syndrome. We all want them to be around later in the year to witness the re-election of America’s most accomplished president and the start of Making America Great Again. See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!

Why do people need to consult an M.D. for their band-aid “treatment”? Doctors will only prescribe drugs or vaccines that are all toxic. Why not care for yourself with good nutrition in the form of food and supplements which doctors know little about? In general, today’s health issues are determined by which option you defer to. A good example is diabetes. You can get steadily worse or eliminate it. Your choice.

Med Tech

I was not born when the USA switched from horsepower to cars but I don’t think the federal government paid to build gas stations. Private businesses did. Now under our enlightened progressive ruling class, they awarded $623 million to build 7,500 chargers. What needy group will be awarded those funds? Political donors perhaps!

Ole Farmer 2

Why do some want (their) autocracy? Laziness. They needn’t think, just follow orders. Superiority. If you don’t do as we say, you are “other,” and must be “canceled.” Fear. If I do whatever I want, under their rules I’ll be held accountable. Democracy is hard work, and many Americans are spoiled children. “I’m a Sovereign Citizen, not bound by your rules! You can’t make me!” Wanna bet? Try finding any country that’ll buy that crap.

Well the numbers are out for December’s inflation numbers and Biden voters are ecstatic to know, that inflation went up again. But what else is new? Anyone who shops knows that inflation is understated. Things that cost $1 the day Trump left office, now cost $3. Every day something else jumps up in price. The bureaucrats can fudge inflation numbers only so much.

R. M.

Legal immigrants are America’s lifeblood. What’s happening today at our southern border is anything but. What we’re witnessing is a textbook insurrection. To stop it, anyone who tries to enter the US illegally should be forcibly repelled, not given a welcoming invitation like Pelosi’s Capitol Police did to the J6 protestors.

Bonnie

Joe Biden lied in a July 16 tweet. Biden claimed it was “our Administration’s 988 suicide and crisis hotline” that is responsible for helping “5 million Americans when they needed it most.” Affixed to Biden’s lie, was a Twitter “community note” declaring that it was under former President Donald Trump that 988 was designated the universal number for those experiencing a mental health crisis and suicidal thoughts. There is no end to Biden’s lies.

Twenty-twenty

I went to a fancy French restaurant called Deja Vu. The head waiter said, “Don’t I know you?”

Bill Wilson

NEPA Freedom Writer Lynne just proved how leftist sheeple journalists are living in their own cocoon of ignorant bliss ignoring the words and actions of the absolute joke who’s occupying the Oval Office. If Lynne has the mental dexterity to operate Google, all she needs to do is search “Biden, God Save the Queen” and she’ll understand what she chooses to ignore. Next, she should Google “Let’s Go Brandon” if she wants another laugh!

Brandon

Fox fake news Jesse Waters just declared Taylor Swift as public enemy number one. Why? Because she is registering her fans to vote. More is not better for the Republican Party.

Jay Miller

Famous Quotes: Einstein – The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. DJT – I’m, like, really smart and a stable genius.

RealAmerica

If EVs were economically viable, the free market would build the charging stations. When gasoline cars came along the government didn’t have to build the fueling network, the private sector did it. Democrats have no experience with allowing the free market to flourish.

Hank

We need tax reform. We’re covering welfare for the rich, From ProPublica: “But the real standouts were the billionaires (remember that’s more than $999 million) who reported such low incomes that they qualified for government assistance. At least 18 billionaires received stimulus checks in 2020 because their tax returns placed them below the income cutoff ($150,000 for a married couple).https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidance-techniques-irs-files

KC

Biden circumvented the Supreme Court on student loan forgiveness. With the stroke of a pen, Biden tried in 2022 to cancel $500 Billion in student debt. But his unconstitutional plan was blocked by the Supreme Court. So Biden used other regulatory means to write off $132 Billion in student debt anyway — effectively forcing blue-collar workers to subsidize higher education of white-collar professionals and launching a frontal assault on Congress’s power of the purse.

Re-Pete

In regards to yesterday’s contributor who believes in Santa and the Easter bunny, I don’t know about Santa but the Easter bunny is real! I saw him pull Sleepy Joe off the stage when he went off-script one day. To Jay, when buying a washing machine, buy American and you won’t have a problem!

Puggy

Ronald Reagan: “Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. … We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don’t know where to look. … Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”

V. S.

Fitch, if you’re going to try and predict the outcome of an election by the number of yard signs, you might be in for a surprise.

Jim Fitch

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