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JOB ONE
What happened to America? We had plenty of jobs in this country – we had the bread man, the milk man, the TV repair man. We all had jobs and we learned in this country. Now it’s sit on your butt and push buttons. Our country is being destroyed and so is the world by this. We need to get back to hard work again in this country. Our kids are lazy – they don’t even know what a snow shovel is or what cutting grass is or anything like that. This country better wise up and get back to the good old days and make a living like our forefathers did when they came to this country. It’s very sad.
MONDALE MANIA
I agree with “Don’t Forget Dukakis” that Mondale seemed like a genuine guy and it’s too bad he had to be the one to go down 49-1 in the electoral vote. It would have been nice if it was Dukakis or Gary Hart or Ted Kennedy or pretty much anyone else the Democrats were considering in that decade.
ROUGH & TOUGH
To “Old History,” I don’t know if Gen. MacArthur starting a nuclear war back then would have been a good idea, but we could use a hard-nosed public figure like him now (Gen. Mattis is a start but we could use some more).
ISN’T IT RICH?
Wake up, America. When are the American people going to realize the Republican Party is for the rich and corporations? Just look at the current tax bill that they want to pass, and the health care they want to take away the people with pre-existing conditions. They want to give the majority of the money in this tax reform bill to the rich and corporations.
TO YOUR HEALTH
To “To Your Health,” you would love to see Lindsey Graham and Mr. Cassidy’s health care to be taken away to see how they’d survive like the rest of us. I don’t think voting Democratic is the answer because then you’d have to deal with the problems of the Affordable Care Act. I really wish – and this is where we may come into some agreement – that President Trump would rescind the order that President Obama gave to the federal elected officials that they would have their own plan. Why would they have something different? They should have to sit down and work out the best compromises for everyone. They don’t want to deal with whatever they’re shoving down our throats. My premiums went up – thank God I can afford them but not everybody can, and luckily I kept my doctor but not everybody did. Trump has no problem stirring the kettle with everything else; he should take away the insurance plan from Congress and make them join the masses.
CASEY AT BAT?
When will Sen. Bob Casey become independently minded and solution-oriented? Casey still supports Obama – this is like Titanic after it split in two. Casey supports Medicaid expansion, even though it includes ablebodied working-age adults when it was originally for poor women, children and the disabled. Casey was under the thumb of Harry Reid before he retired, and now he gets his marching orders from Chuck Schumer. Pennsylvania can do better.
TOTAL HACK
To “TV Blues,” based on what I’ve seen and reviews I’ve read of “Madame Secretary” (I’m just going off the first season when there was still buzz around the show), the funny thing was that it seemed the writers were pulling more from Condie Rice’s time as secretary of state than Hillary’s. I guess even the esteemed, enlightened writers in Hollywood quietly realized that she was a total hack and there wasn’t even enough there for a middle-of-the-road primetime drama.
COIN FLIP
Given Trump’s history of branding everything under the sun and his talk of “deciding Tom Price’s fate,” I wonder if he’s going to release an official Trump “Coin of Truth” or something like that to flip when those rendering a life-altering decision on someone. It would be great for high school administration deciding whether a violation warrants explosion or anyone else having to make an old school inquisition-style decision.
PANDORA’S BOX
“Money Pit” touches on a good point. The problem with government bureaucracy is that once you open Pandora’s Box nothing is getting back in there. The EPA did some good work in its early years.