Sound Off >> Comment online or leave a message at 610-323-3009

I read in The Mercury that Spring-Ford School District wants to spend over $12 million on a fitness and music center and they say that won’t increase our taxes. Well, our taxes go up every year. Now they’re going to spend an additional $12 million-plus and now our taxes aren’t going up. Do they really think anybody’s going to believe that? Wait till you get your tax bills after this gets built.

Attention all Pottstown Section 8 residents, you can now move to Phoenixville where they’re building new Section 8 residential places for you.

I was just thinking maybe the Boyertown School District should sing that Kink’s song “Lola” that says “Boys will be girls and girls will be boys and it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world,” and indeed it is.

This is for mothers and grandmothers who baby their kids and grandkids. You’re not helping them any by doing everything for them, tying their shoes, packing their bags, patting them on the back. You’re doing more harm than good. You might think you’re doing good but you’re not. You’re not making better kids out of them for society. They’ll be worse off. Think about it next time you baby them so much.

All the government says is how they know what the American people want and need but what about land of the free? We’re Americans. If we want health insurance that’s our choice and we should not be told we have to have it. Where are the foreigners paying taxes, paying for college? That’s their land of the free and the government thinks that’s OK. Sorry, the government is for the government and American people don’t matter.

You have a choice each and every day. I choose to feel blessed. I choose to feel grateful. I choose to be excited. I choose to be thankful. I choose to be happy.

Spring-Ford School had a meeting the other night and they stated that if they build a 12.5 million dollar fitness/ music building that the taxes would not go up. Does that mean if they build an ice hockey rink and a swimming pool and spend $25 million our taxes are going down? Do these politicians really think we’re going to believe this? Maybe they should get a math center. It would be more than helpful.

They keep saying to use public transportation. Now I see on the news there’s been another train wreck in the area the other day. That’s how many train wrecks in the past few months in the Philadelphia/ New York area? So how safe is public transportation? They better get something together here if they want people to have confidence in them.

I was just wondering how many people noticed during the civil rights era when Chuck Berry was very popular how he dressed. He dressed appropriately, he dressed in a suit, in a vest. He was a decent clean looking person during that time and when he was growing up, not like some of the people we see now that are trying to be entertainers and look like they just came out of the garbage dump.

Once a week I take my 92-year-old mother to the post office. I never take her down High Street because it upsets her too much when she sees the downtown. The other day I wasn’t thinking and mistakenly drove down High Street. She was just not herself the rest of the day. She can’t believe that that’s the same town that she and my father came to right after World War II.

Considering the Republicans in Congress could not pass their own health care with the majority in both the House and Senate plus a Republican president, I have real doubt that they could pass a Mother’s Day if we didn’t already have one. Clark S. Kent

Talk about being incorrect, this tops them all. Somebody said they voted for Donald Trump because he will build a wall and Mexico will pay, better insurance at a cheaper rate, millions of Mexicans deported and no Muslims allowed into the country and he will not play golf but remain in the White House and make America great. Well by my calculation they’re all a bunch of lies by diehard Republicans like Donald. Yankee Doodle D andy

I read that two U.S. cities with the highest alcohol consumption are Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. The difference is that in Vegas the drunks are gambling with their own money. Jim Fitch

Will somebody please tell our President Trump to stay off Twitter? He’s making a fool of himself and the people that voted for him look ridiculous at some of the things he’s saying. Get your stuff together. Get it done. Stay off Twitter. Sound Off is a forum to spur dialogue from residents of the communities we serve on topics of interest in those communities. Fair game are comments that raise issues of note or amplify ongoing debates. We will not publish comments that are potentially libelous, slanderous, mean-spirited, vulgar or inappropriate. Publications of Sound Off comments are at the sole discretion of the publisher.