Sound Off: Feb. 15, 2025
Pennies
Stopping the production of pennies is actually a logical cost-saving move. Pennies will still be used as currency, and there’s currently an over abundance of pennies already in circulation. This is one issue where I agree with “President” Musk.
Democrats
Democrats refuse to recognize why they lost the election. All they want to do is block President Trump from carrying out his campaign promises that a majority of the voters elected him to do. They do not want to reduce the size of government and they don’t want to cut back on spending taxpayers’ money.
Plain English
Democratic Illinois Rep. Jane Schakowsky, during a Congressional committee hearing, said the word “manufacturing” sounded like a guy to her. Presumably she’s nosing around to find yet another plain English word that offends her or someone else so she can create another faux issue to be concerned about instead of real adult life concerns or problems that concern Americans in her district and the country at large. The word derives from Latin and means hand helping or working.
Prices up
Do you realize that Temu and Schein are Chinese companies? By the way so is Quince, that is being advertised on TV. I try not to buy Chinese products. It’s tough but can be done. Buy American, buy Vietnamese, buy Taiwanese. Quit helping China. Spend just a couple more bucks to help Americans.
MAGA
If President Trump really wants to keep more jobs in America, he should make a proclamation that call centers for goods bought in the U.S. must be located in the U.S. I get very annoyed when trying to place an order by phone and get a person who barely speaks English and has no clue how to answer my questions without placing me on hold for sometimes hours. I’m tired of hearing “thank you for patiently waiting.” I’m no longer patient and I’m fed up with foreigners reciting prepared scripts that do not answer my questions. Heaven forbid if I insist on speaking to someone in America or a supervisor. They place me on hold again, and the same person comes back on the call claiming they are a supervisor in America.
Attacks on facts
Apparently President Trump and Elon Musk are continuing their attack on fact-based journalism, replacing with it their partisan media takeover. Now they are trying to kill the fact-based Public Broadcasting Station so they can have unchecked corruption. The same reason they are getting rid of the EPA, Consumer Finance Protection Agency, Inspector Generals, and marginalizing the FBI and CIA. Billionaires win, regular citizens lose.
I’m confused
Because the Associated Press won’t use President Trump’s preferred pronouns for the Gulf, they have been barred from the Oval Office and Air Force One?
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