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Sound Off for Nov. 25, 2023

One request

To President Biden: close the border now.

My phone

The bad news is my iPhone cellular service has stopped receiving and sending phone calls and says I need to contact my provider to resolve the error. The good news is I’m not being inundated with robo calls anymore.

Loving Biden

He has accomplished more in his term in office thus far than any president I can recall, and I have been around a long time. Yet. he is consistently run down in the press as being too old and ineffectual. This is a complete falsehood and I hope most people are perceptive enough to comprehend that. After the disastrous Trump years, he is just what we needed and history will prove that to be true instead of all the false information flying around in the press these days. We are blessed that he is president now.

Different view

I’ve been a registered Democrat since I could vote. I voted for Obama, Hillary and Biden. That being said, as much as I hate to admit it, the country was in much better shape under Trump in regards to the economy, the borders and gas prices. Yes, he is a brash egomaniac, but in retrospect I think I would rather have a successful businessman who smartly used bankruptcy on a few of his businesses than a career politician who really does not have a clue and has the country in a tailspin.

Leading by example

People learn by example more than by what they are told. The painted lines on the streets are often not visible, which gives the message our leaders do not care about unsafe driving. The roads are poorly maintained, giving the message maintaining your community is not important. People drive over the speed limit and recklessly, giving the message one does not have to obey the law. When leadership does not show respect for their community, why would they expect others to?

Recreational marijuana

The United States has many young people that never finished school and are open to not understanding many basic things. Now we might also have educated young and old that could legally be using recreational pot. This is another way to make our citizens zone out and live in a fantasy world. We sure don’t need another way to not face life’s challenges by hiding with the drug. Education and health should be the top priority.

Trump’s pull

When are you people gonna stop this Trump, Trump, Trump everything? He continues to own you.

New sources

So you think Fox and NewsMax report the facts without bias. Just look at the list of people NewsMax interviews. Looks like the who’s who of the far right. Giuliani? Unbiased? Give me a break.

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