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My workplace is threatenin­g and hostile but you do not dare report it because you will lose your job. So sometimes you keep your mouth shut for a long time just to save yourself.

This time of year I remember going down to the New York Store to buy my mom a coat for Christmas and stopping by at The Very Best and getting one of the famous hotdogs, maybe take in an afternoon movie at the Hippodrome movie theater, then go home and have a cup of hot chocolate with a Pottstown-made piece of Mrs. Smith’s pie. Are you telling me this town is coming back? We’ll never see those days. Very sad.

I read the article on Sunday about the former Pennhurst Center in Spring City and that they were going to save six buildings. I worked there and hopefully they won’t waste the taxpayers’ money on saving more than three buildings if that. Those buildings look terrible. Beverly

To the person complainin­g about the oil spill, it’s not Trump’s fault. More people than Trump approved that oil pipeline. You’re probably the guy that complains about gas getting too expensive when we had to deal with Saudi Arabia for all the price jacks. Get over it. They’ll clean up the mess. Life will go on. It’s not a big thing, it was in the middle of nowhere. The United States Federal Government Environmen­tal Department will make sure they clean it up.

Where is Vice President Mike Pence? What happened to the days when the vice president and the House speaker shared the spotlight with the president? When was the last time we had a party win an election and only one of them are added to the president’s cabinet? How is it possible to run a country when thousands of positions are unfilled in this government? Why is only one man responsibl­e for the state department? Too many unanswered questions. Hawaiian Punch Party

Lady Di, if you think President Obama deceived us what can you say for Trump’s lies? The 2010 uranium deal which everyone in Congress knew about. The money given back to Iran was theirs to begin with and we received five American hostages in return. Good deal. President Obama disagreed with Israel the way they treated the Palestinia­ns and so did the American people. Question, how can you condone Trump’s treatment of a reporter with Parkinson’s? Clark S. Kent

Martha, the cost CNN came up with was an additional $200,000 for the vice president’s special trip to a football game but there were more costs for the city in security to the stadium and at the stadium and back. Remember every time Trump or Pence make a move there are costs. But this is really old news Martha, besides Donald Trump is the one that needs someone to defend him as most of the conservati­ves here have abandoned him.

Ten rivers, eight in Asia and two in Africa account for 88 to 95 percent of all plastic to be found in our oceans per the Hemholtz Center for Environmen­tal Research in Leipzig, Germany. While globalists believe that you and I should foot the cleanup bill, any long term solution requires the applicatio­n of targeted financial pressure on the responsibl­e nations.

Trump said we’re going to be winning so much you’ll be sick of it. I’m asking when does it start? Jay Miller

This makes no sense. If a team makes a touchdown and waves to the other team it’s called taunting. But when the Eagles want to be real childish and do all that, it’s not called taunting. Why is that favoritism allowed for the Eagles but not for the other teams? That makes real sense.

To the person responding to JT, you said that President Trump is a colossal liar, he’s egotistica­l and a very bad person in general and also the people who voted for him you said the same about us because we voted for him. You know what, you described Hillary Clinton to a T and she’s even more than that. She’s as bad a person as there is anywhere. So I just want you to know that it works both ways. JT

Lady Di, you mentioned in your comment that truth is becoming extinct. You need to tell that to your president. No one lies more than he does.

In regard to the impeachmen­t of Clinton and the impeachmen­t of Nixon, you are wrong. Clinton was impeached but not put out of office. Nixon was never impeached; he just resigned. Get that through your head.

CNN is running an ad about facts and truthfulne­ss. They made it really simple so Trump could understand it. He has lied over 1,600 times since taking office.

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