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Lemme think about it: It appears Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has a choice between getting beat up by angry 300-pound men on a weekly basis or retiring to paradise with a super model and living in a mansion. What am I missing here?
Misinformation abounds: The education system should really be revamped to specialize in critical thinking skills. In the age of information, everyone seems to be misinformed.
Legal bribery? Gov. J.B. Pritzker pays six-figure salaries to many in his administration. This borders on bribery gives them reason to be biased toward his decisions instead of answering to the taxpayers.
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Money wasted on ads: It’s nothing but nonstop campaign ads on TV and radio. Pritzker alone is put in over $50 million, I believe, and I’m sure the other politicians are putting in a load as well. Instead, why don’t they offer rewards (to capture the suspects) for people who have been shot and killed in Chicago and all over the suburbs, throughout Illinois. I’d vote for them then because I knew the money was being spent well.
The ruining of sports: Professional sports has created a monster problem. By playing too many games in a season, we have baseball with the World Series in November, football in February, basketball and hockey in May. Season playoffs are boring because of paying these players too much money. The owners are to blame.
Seems fair: I don’t want to read or hear any Republican or Trumpster complain about Pritzker’s tax return or any other person’s tax return until Donald Trump releases his tax returns.
Don’t forget: I would remind everyone that you have Social Security and you have Medicare thanks to the Democratic Party. The Republican Party has always opposed Social Security and Medicare and has done everything they can over the decades to chip away at both programs and to destroy them as much as possible. Please keep in mind that thanks to the Democrats, all Americans who are on Social Security will receive an 8.7% raise in January. Keep that in mind when you go to the voting booth this November.
What lies? I’m tired of hearing about how Trump lied. What did he lie about? That our financial services would be in peril under the Biden administration? That we would be close to a third world war? That Afghanistan pullout would not be successful under Biden? That our oil supplies, which we have plenty of right here in the U.S., would be in jeopardy and gas prices would skyrocket? That our taxes would go up?