Biden’s speech

US Senator Ted Cruz, according to today’s editorial (Chronicle, May 4), described President Biden’s speech to Congress as “boring but radical”. The editorial appeared to suggest that was a good thing.

Senator Cruz’s words are worth paying attention to. He clarified the “boring but radical” by saying, “This was a frightening speech, and it was a frightening speech masquerading in really boring tones.”

“Frightening”, because Biden’s speech “was all about trillions of dollars in spending, massive jobkilling regulations, trillions of dollars in taxes, and it was an unapologetic partisan speech”, despite Biden’s previous claims of wanting unity.

Biden said, Senator Cruz tells us, “number one we’re raising taxes, we’re raising every tax. If you pay taxes in America, your taxes are going up.”

Senator Cruz especially pointed out what Biden did not say. “He didn’t say we’re opening up small businesses, he didn’t say we’re getting people back to work.

“He didn’t say we’re getting kids back in school, completely missing from his remarks tonight was the outrage that more than half of the kids in America are not in person in school five days a week.

“He provided zero solutions to the crisis at the border that he caused, he pretended it didn’t exist.”

Yes, President Biden has reached the end of his first 100 days in office. A period full of disasters, like the humanitarian crisis on the southern US border, one created by Biden and not being fixed by him or his administration.

A period with some claimed successes, like the Covid vaccines that Biden claims all the credit for, saying there were no vaccines when he took office - after he had been vaccinated…

As Senator Cruz summed it up, “This is the most radical first 100 days of any president in the history of this country.”

K A BENFELL

Gonville