Sound Off: May 25, 2025

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Big and beautiful

Congratulations to President Trump and the House Republicans on their work in moving the Big, Beautiful Bill forward.

Enough is enough

Across America, unelected federal district judges are overstepping their bounds — halting the decisions of a duly elected President with the stroke of a pen. One judge in San Francisco blocked an executive order to secure our southern border — defying national security concerns and the votes of millions. Now we have a district judge blocking the dismantling of the Department of Education. When judges substitute their personal ideology for the Constitution, they don’t just block a policy — they block democracy itself. It’s time to rein in judicial overreach — and restore our Republic by giving power back to the people.

Say what?

Killing 2 Israeli embassy workers is an at of war? What happened to guns don’t kill people, just people do?

ICE masks

ICE agents wear masks in order not to be doxxed by Democrats. They’re federal agents who arrest illegals. If you’re not illegal, you have nothing to worry about.

Keep them coming

Please continue to print every liberal, progressive Sound Off you can possibly think of. All of them. Even the big ones over 200 characters. Soon you’ll be out of a job.

Medicaid cuts

The House has passed a budget that deeply cuts Medicaid. You know who this affects? You. Whether you are below poverty level, work in health care, elderly, veterans, doctors and any small businesses that depend on recipients to buy their services or products. Welcome to the below poverty percentiles.

On the fringes

It’s obvious that all things liberal Democrats believe in are on the fringes: Illegal immigrants over Americans, Gaza and murders over Israel, and riots over peace. The media gaslights us all.

All hype

Why do we need to know in advance that Trump and Putin will talk on the phone?

Present concerns

Donald Trump is president. He shouldn’t shift the blame every time there’s an issue. He must own his mistakes and correct them. Congress needs to do its job and provide oversight. Congress needs to craft laws and budgets based on each representative’s needs. Not all will be granted, but this just going along with whatever Trump wants is undemocratic.

Health insurance

In the USA, companies generally provide health insurance. In most of the world, it is provided by the state. This puts the USA at a large competitive disadvantage. It also handcuffs employees to a job and reduces worker mobility in the economy. This company provided health care has its origins in post-World War II companies’ competition for workers. Instead of unsustainable tariffs, consider creating a health care system that frees our companies from this competitive burden and throws off the handcuffs on our workers.

Debt ceiling

President Trump wants Congress to eliminate the federal debt ceiling and pass a huge budget that will increase our national debt by several trillion dollars. Why? Because if other nations are willing to continue giving loans and credit to us, we would be foolish to turn them down. Remember his ‘gimme’ golf analogy? Smart people use other people’s money to make money for themselves. The trick is to keep repaying our creditors just enough that they keep loaning to us, selling to us, and buying from us.

Mob boss

President Trump is running the government like a syndicate. He makes all the decisions, and everything must go through him. He’s branding his name to the highest bidders regardless of their relationship with the United States.

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