Sound Off: Oct. 23, 2024

Just vote

There are mary Sound Offs offering us suggestions of who we should vote for. I say each and every voter should look at all candidates and do his or her own research. As for Vice President Harris and Donald Trump, both have had four years in the White House. We all need to determine who really did the best job during his or her four years and make our determination of who to vote for from that.

Day of love

Hundreds of injuries, millions of dollars in damages, calls for the death of the vice president and speaker of the House, and a woman died. If that ain’t a day of love, I don’t know what is.

Businesses and taxes

If you’ve ever had a business, you would know that the tax codes were created to favor businesses. Everything from office space, gas, entertainments and dinners are exempted if it is for business purposes. When we dissolved our business, we had to pay more taxes. The name of the game is to have less profit which reduces your income, resulting in less taxes.. Corporations are different because of investors. This is why they increase prices.

Lower prices

If the U.S. became energy independent as we were during the Donald Trump administration, we would not need to rely on the whims of OPEC. As to high prices for consumer goods, particularly groceries, if the cost of fuel to transport goods was cheaper then the products would be cheaper. There is no boogeyman out there trying to break the consumer by raising prices. I suggest sitting down with a small business owner and ask them about their profits in the last 3-plus years.

Vote for Trump

Now that groceries, fast food and gas prices are down, I guess the only reason I have left to vote for Donald Trump is that he will round up millions of undocumented migrants and ship them back to Mexico. I guess now I’ll have to get my adult son off the couch to install new roofs and pick crops in the field. That’s OK, though. It’s well worth it just to get a stable genius in the White House.

He’s lost it

It gets worse every day. Instead of stating his position and plans for the nation, Donald Trump spends 12 minutes at his rally talking to supporters about Arnold Palmer in the locker room. Couple this with his 35 minutes at previous rally where he feebly danced instead of answering questions, and it is clear he is unquestionably unfit.

That AI guy

I’ve read conflicting articles about this guy named Al. Don’t know his last name. They never print it. Some say Al is great, others say Al may destroy us. Now I learn that Al is a major player in ChatGPT, which I believe is the social media site for the Gulfport airport. Is Al plotting something local? It’s important to keep up with all this tech stuff.

California

It is a misconception to say, as the “Electoral College” Sound Off said, that if the Electoral College is abolished then California will decide all presidential elections. There are far more than enough voters in other states to overwhelm California if they disagree with California, and in a close race the voters in a small conservative state could determine who wins. I prefer that the president be elected by the people, whatever their political preferences and wherever they live.

Need new Republicans

How has America changed since Donald Trump came along? Are we better off now? I don’t think so. There are so many great Republicans that would make great honest leaders. We must cut our obsession with Trump, no matter how much he threatens people if we want to return our country to a moral level. Listening to the things he says every day are scary. Too many good people have fought and died for America to let this self-serving guy to continue to destroy us.

Musk or no?

The LA Times editorial comments and misinformation about Elon Musk’s desire to colonize Mars simply demonstrates their short sightedness. The Times says Musk can’t provide the expensive flights to Mars he talks about. The biggest leap of faith that once sent men across an unexplored vastness, in tiny ships, carrying all their food and water in sealed containers, was so expensive only government funding made it possible. The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria made it, as did the Apollo missions much later. The point is, mankind is both inquisitive and inventive enough to pursue discovery. Going to Mars is simply the next step in our reach for the stars. Small thinkers are just unable or don’t want to see all the amazing things Musk’s dream can bring. Indeed, I’ll be in that line to buy the first tickets.

Hatred

So you think liberals are totally consumed by hatred? I really think you’re talking about Donald Trump when you mention “consumed by hatred”. He’s the poster child.

What a joke

Apparently Donald Trump thinks he is going to slap huge tariffs on imports from China and others and they are going to say “no problem, we will pay that.” Billions and billions coming our way from these tariffs? Not a chance.

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