The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

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If all the Pennsylvan­ia legislator­s can come up with for money is gambling that’s pretty pathetic. The older people are suffering with the property tax and the legislator­s do not have the gumption to increase sales tax and income tax for the property tax relief. Gambling just affects the poorest pocketbook­s. That is who purchases lottery tickets. They want to get rich and it’s sad that they keep aiming at the poor for more money.

To the person who called in saying that the police do not need to be put on a pedestal I sure hope that if your home is broken into or you’re in a car wreck or some member of your family needs an ambulance that our blue do not show up for you.

This is to the Pottstown voters, the election is coming up. The reason Pottstown is the way it is today is because you keep voting the same old people in that do nothing and they’re still going to do nothing as long as they keep getting in. So I think we ought to try to change this and get somebody new in there.

I would like to thank the Schuylkill Township Police Department on their diligent work ethic and attention. Please support your local police. They work very hard for you. A special thanks to Officer Mark McNelly of the police department for all his help and hard work for whom I will be forever indebted to. Thank you very much. Remember the man in blue is a friend to you. God bless all our police everywhere. Peace. Stephen Fazzini

With all this golfing President Trump’s been doing I often wonder if he ever had a hole-in-one. If not I hope he gets one. When he goes away for a couple days to go play his wife packs extra socks in case he gets a hole in one.

To the person who took down the “No home for hate” sign, your honesty is very refreshing. Thank you. But why don’t you take the extra step? Why don’t you get to know one of us and have a conversati­on and maybe you’ll discover that you can disagree with someone without hating them? A Lovable Deplorable

Trump’s secret voter fraud commission is so secret that even some members of the panel can’t get informatio­n on what they’re doing. The whole idea was a bad one to begin with. They want voters’ Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates and voting history and the informatio­n will be kept in one central location. That will make the Russians’ job much easier, one hack and they have it all.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are quick to throw loyal people under the bus. Manafort and Papadopoul­os were at one time praised by Donald Trump. Now that they are on the verge of becoming convicted felons he acts like he doesn’t even know them. Hilarious.

I see where there’s another mass killing in New York with a guy with a rented truck. I guess they’re going to have to ban rented trucks and cars too in addition to rifles and guns to stop all these crazy people.

I see Trump blaming the terrorist thing in New York on Chuck Schumer. He should have just blamed it on Hillary Clinton; he blamed everything else in her. He’s a loser.

The White House and its puppets at Fox News are throwing a lot of darts at Hillary Clinton. Could this be to distract our attention from the indictment­s and the guilty plea in the Russian probe? At least Richard Nixon didn’t blame George McGovern for Watergate.

Our government, our president, our justice system are the reasons why the terrorist attacks happen in our country. All these people doing this are from other countries with no criminal records coming here to live, even the so-called Dreamers can be sleeper terrorists. When is this country going to wake up and ban all foreigners, immigrants, refugees and illegals out of our country?

The person that will not give up on the 2010 deal for uranium to Russia, yes, it was seven years ago. I don’t understand your position or question. The Clinton State Department did sign off on the deal however eight other federal agencies also had to sign off. So it was not just Hillary and her department, and this was no secret deal that Congress was not aware of.

At least eight people dead after a suspect slams into a crowd with a Home Depot truck. That’s just wonderful because he’s a Muslim and he’s yelling “Allahu Akbar.” I wonder what they’ll do now maybe outlaw Home Depot trucks or maybe outlaw people from renting trucks? It’s always the answer to put the blame on the American citizen when terror strikes. Let’s put the blame where the blame belongs on the Muslim terrorists.

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