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New location, same team: The Bears brass held a news conference this past week to preview a possible move to Arlington Heights. However, at no time were blueprints presented for a future NFL championship, leading many fans to speculate that nothing ever really changes with this team.
Student debt issue: This is in reference to the comment about student debt loans in Speak Out. The author said that it would raise our taxes. It will not raise our taxes as that money was already spent and the federal government holds that debt. In other words, the government has allocated the money for the student loans from its budget then it loans it out to those in need. They also claimed that it was for politics but Biden ran on a platform of forgiving student debt. He is keeping his campaign promise. I think that they’d be hard pressed to find a politician who isn’t playing politics.
Biden insults Americans: Never in the history of our country has a sitting president so blatantly disrespected half of the American voters like Joe Biden has just done. He just called MAGA Republicans “fascists” when he himself has never said a word condemning any of the worst riots our country has known, the ones where several innocent people were killed and billions of dollars worth of damage committed. I guess it doesn’t matter if laws were broken if you agree with them!
Hypocrite mayors: Whiny New York and Washington, D.C., Democrat mayors don’t like migrants being bused to their cities by Texas and Arizona. Too bad! Like always, Biden is AWOL. The mayor of D.C. said, “We are not a border city. Our infrastructure is set to focus on D.C. residents who experience emergencies. And if the federal government wants cities to create migrant centers, then they have to be prepared to fund it.” It’s OK to overrun conservative border towns and states, but not OK for elite Democrat northern cities. BS!
Can’t please everyone: Thank you, Ted Slowik, for your column on canceling student loan debt. President Biden kept his promise. However, it wasn’t good enough — or too good — for others. The bottom line is, I don’t care who it is, everyone will not be happy. To forgive up to $10,000 in debt is a big deal. It helps the middle class. Yes, some people work and paid off loans while others struggled. The Republicans are giving President Biden a thumbs-down but they give corporations a thumbs-up while they have been making money over the pandemic era off the middle class.
Bailing out students: Ted Slowik, why am I resentful about the student loan bailout? My husband, who just passed away from the ravages of Agent Orange, worked his butt off to take care of his family. How about people get off their derrieres and work for a living instead of relying on the Democratic government to take care of them? Oh, wait a minute, that’s what the Democrats want, people beholden to them. My family members are college educated, and we vote Republican. In your infinite bias, you call Republican voters uneducated. How about doing a couple of columns on the ravages of Agent Orange?
Trump’s dangerous actions: OK, all you Republicans out there, your glorious leader Donald Trump has now put our troops in danger, our national security in danger, by insisting on taking these top secret documents down to his little resort in Mar-A-Lago. Are you happy now?
Don’t jump blindly: We are told our climate is in crisis. There is cause for concern but eliminating fossil fuels would be catastrophic. Irrational hysteria will force costly, unreliable renewables on us and they will do little for the climate. Fossil fuels have given us huge benefits that are being ignored. Furnaces and air conditioners save millions of lives every day. Fossil fuel-driven agricultural machines have given us the means to prevent starvation. Spending on research and development for the best solutions in energy sources and the technology to deliver it makes sense, but jumping blindly on the green energy bandwagon does not.
Bigger than it sounds: I read the Aug. 31 column by Derrick Morgan about electric vehicles. He made a comment that stopping the use of all combustion engines in California would only drop the average temperature .02 degree. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? Consider this, the average temperature of the oceans has risen only .76 degree and this has caused ice shelves to melt, water levels to rise and the salinity of the waters and fishing lanes to change. His column doesn’t mention that we have 50 states (50x.02) and making changes now will help to preserve our nation for our children’s children.
Wrong response: Because of their participation in the Jan. 6 investigative hearings, U.S Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were censured? Why? What rational purpose does that serve in finding a path to the facts? Those who did watch the results in the public hearings were exposed to the claims of a corrupt effort by Donald Trump to extend his term in office. When is the Republican Party going to stop accepting this responsibility of defending Trump’s behavior and begin to react appropriately?
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