Sound Off: May 4, 2025
50 years?
It’s incredible, and a sad state of affairs, that Richard Jordan remains on Mississippi’s death row, nearly 50 years after his conviction. May justice soon be served.
Hospital safety scores
I just read the article on hospital safety scores. The Singing River Hospital System scores are the worst on the coast. There has been a lot of political changes in administration recently and they are obviously hurting the system. Our community deserves quality health care not “worse than average for the following categories: dangerous object left in patient’s body, surgical wound splits open, death from serious treatable complications, kidney injury after surgery and serious breathing problem.”
Give tariffs a chance
I want to commend President Trump for taking bold steps to address long-standing tariff disparities that have placed American businesses and workers at a disadvantage for way too long. For years, our trade partners have benefited from one-sided agreements, and it’s encouraging to see someone willing to push back and level the playing field.
Cabinet face-off
I wish the media would do a side-by-side comparison of the Biden/Trump presidential Cabinets `they wouldn’t dare.
Sorry, Democrats
Democrats are in turmoil. They’re kicking David Hogg to the curb and Chuck Schumer polled today at 17%. Remember, if you believe in the Democrats’ policies, you’re losing. Ask Terry Moran.
Kissing the ring
Our Mississippi delegation is begging President Trump to send aid after tornado disasters. His billionaire donors don’t need aid, but we do. Let’s see what happens.
A question
If China is going to pay the tariffs, then what’s the Trump Administration’s problem with Amazon listing the tariff price?
Trump’s ‘accomplishments’
President Trump’s supporters are still writing in to Sound Off to support “all of Trump’s accomplishments.” These people must not go anywhere or do anything, otherwise they would know that our entire world economy is slowly crumbling. The negative effects of Trump’s tariffs are happening slowly, but they are happening. Unless something changes, soon there will be empty shelves in our stores along with even higher prices.
Sleepy Joe
You know, if President Biden hadn’t been asleep at the wheel for his entire presidency, and if folks hadn’t been covering that up, maybe the Democrats wouldn’t be in such a mess.
Just stop
Another executive order, this one demanding that truck drivers speak English. If they can pass the commercial driving test, they must know how to read English. Another senseless rule that’s not worth the time of day.
Makes sense
I’m not President Trump’s biggest supporter, but it sure seems to me like being able to read English should be a prerequisite for being licensed to drive a truck ... or any vehicle for that matter.
So much winning
All those promises of the great success we’d get on Day 1 of a Trump presidency. And folks believed it.
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