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. Please include “speak out” in the subject line.Predictable reaction: Joe Biden gave his State of the Union Address this week. It’s been a long time since anyone accused a Republican politician of being a class act and judging from what happened on Tuesday night it’s going to be a much longer wait.
Love letter response: To the person who wrote a love letter to Ron DeSantis, you might want to ask Floridians how they like being billed hundreds of dollars a year to pay off their governor’s senseless vendetta against Disney!
Protecting Social Security: Funding the Social Security Trust fund into the foreseeable future is easy: 1) Eliminate the cap on wages subject to the Social Security tax, but keep the current wage cap rules on crediting wages used to compute benefits. That cap is adjusted for annual COLA’s and is currently set at $160,200.00. More money coming into the fund and no changes of any kind needed for computing or obtaining benefits. 2) Prohibit “borrowing” from the trust fund, of course.
Here’s an idea: Everyday I hear about the millions and millions and millions of dollars and artillery for Ukraine. What did they have when they were invaded, nothing? Maybe that’s the U.S. should do, stop defense spending and just when something goes wrong wait on help like they are.
Who needs refs? I get a kick out of these football players. Every time they get a first down, they jump up and signal first down. I think every time they drop an easy pass or fumble the ball they should get up and signal incomplete pass or signal the other team is getting the ball now.
Hypocritical move: I was just reading that the Diocese of Rockford and Joliet will discontinue their relationships with the Boy Scouts, who usually meet in their basements. I think that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Shame on them.
Profiting from fear: As I listen to all the comments on the news about gun control, I would like someone to explain to me why anybody other than farmers and people in rural areas need weapons of war in their homes. What exactly are you afraid of? Unless you have them loaded and next to your bed, what good are they? I am a gun owner, just for the record, and no one is coming to take our guns away. This is all about gun manufacturers profiting from fears.