The Mercury (Pottstown, PA)

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- 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 lib

Take a look at what friends and neighbors are saying about local hot topics and join in on the conversati­on.

I read in Tuesday’s Mercury that these 3,000 immigrants that are coming up is supposed to be because of Trump. Well that’s not what I understand. I understand that it is the Democrats. When they had the rallies against Trump they were paid for by the Democrats and George Soros. So don’t blame it on the Republican­s. It’s the Democrats.

California’s constituti­on denies voting rights to anyone in prison or on parole but that didn’t stop Jerry Brown and his Democratic administra­tion from altering the law permitting prisoners who serve their time in county jails to vote in the midterms. Democrats will go out of their way to make America worse again. When voting use knowledge and wisdom not emotion and hatred. —Keep America Free

Just a suggestion. How about these Democrats and their leaders offer to take some of these refugees into their home? Wouldn’t that be nice.

To those who need to get rid of spotted lantern-flies on their property, they’re very sluggish this time of year so smash or spray them before they lay eggs. Also it turns out that the praying mantis is their natural predator so you can order the egg cases from Amazon next spring. —A Responsibl­e Citizen

Funny how soon we forget. Our prosperity is not due to any of the last administra­tion policies. People were running out of unemployme­nt benefits, no job raises for years and increasing insurance deductible­s. Those are facts for those who forgot. Jobs weren’t coming back we were told and no one weaponized our government more. I’d hate to go backwards but regardless I know who controls it all. —Lady Di

To the person who figured it out in Tuesday’s Sound Off that the Hondurans and the latest caravan coming through Mexico were used by Trump and the Republican­s for political gain, I wouldn’t claim that you figured it out though when the Honduran president already confirmed it as fact. It just proves Trump will go to any length to use people for his own gains. —Take Our America Back In 2020

Can somebody tell me why has the Democrat Party becomes so infected with hate?

I would just like to correct the Philadelph­ia Eagles football fans in the proper way to spell Eagles. It is not E-A-G-L-E-S, it is spelled LO-S-E-R-S. —Philadelph­ia Fan

If you watch Fox Cable News you will see approximat­ely 6,000 illegal aliens coming to storm our border. The next wave will be 10,000 and so on and so on. Seven out of 10 on the television screen are men, by the time they reach the border you will only see women and kids on the fake news. It’s Fox Cable or nothing. —Disgusted Democrat

Trump says he created four million jobs. By what invention? Philo Farnsworth invented TV in 1934. He sold his patent to RCA. The result was millions and millions of American jobs.

– Scott Weekly

Hey Jay Miller wake up and join the rest of us in reality.

Don’t complain about the cold weather. At least now when you go to the shopping center at Upland Square and Walmart and Wawa you don’t get bombarded with lantern-flies. It’s getting rid of the lantern-flies that’s the good thing. Enjoy the cold air.

Breathless­ly I am awaiting the tax cut the white nationalis­ts in the White House will give us in days with Congress not in session so I can go fight the 6,000 strong caravan about to invade Texas. —Bruce Madara Come on people let’s elect some new blood in Harrisburg on election day. What have we got to lose? After all nothing’s getting done now.

Two years of investigat­ion by Mueller and nothing. Better we should think about getting in an efficiency expert there in the FBI. This is costing us a lot of money and I think we need to just speed it up a little bit.

The Republican­s are talking about cutting Medicare and Medicaid to help pay for a tax cut for the rich as the deficit just hit $779 billion. If they want to save Medicare just remove the cap when you stop paying in. If any of The Mercury readers make over $100,000 then they have stopped paying in. Yes the rich get all the breaks, that’s why the deficit is at an all-time high.

We must have a Republican president in office. The national deficit is going up and my 401(k) is going down. Hey Donny, any progress on that wall? Did Mexico send you a check yet?

To A Responsibl­e Citizen, you’re worried about the habitat that the wall is going to interfere with from Mexico to the United States. Maybe you ought to think about the illegal dope that is coming across and killing your kids instead of the animals. Get your priorities in order. — JB, Gilbertsvi­lle

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