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President Trump gave the State of the Union Address and said “We are a free country and will never become a socialist nation.” I applaud that because people who work don’t want to stand in line and wait and be told what job to do and be paid some kind of socialist wage. People need to work for a living, be paid for what they work for not jobs that are made by government to just fiddle away time and be non-productive.

The world gets crazier everyday. Two states want to legalize abortions at nine months to kill the baby and Philly wants to open up a facility to shoot up drugs. Surely will help the opioid problem.

Is there anything as dumb as a motor voter registrati­on? What does one have to do with the other? It was only implemente­d to promote cheating especially for illegals as shown in California. Pennsylvan­ia discovered more than 11,000 illegals registered in 2018 and only after the midterms did Gov. Wolf relent. He fought it all summer until the election was over and then finally withdrew his objection. —Truth Be Told

I was not impressed as the Democrats sat stoic as President Trump gave his State of the Union address. The women wore white to cover their dark black hearts when Trump addressed the abortion issue. These women in white didn’t like it. I was glad the president brought this national disgrace of baby killing to the attention of the electorate. —Sanatoga Paul Revere

The story of Pottstown is so tragically sad and all my friends in Pottstown who have lived here for at least 50 years know exactly what I’m talking about. Every so often we see where we’re losing whatever little bit we have left of Pottstown. It’s just unbelievab­ly tragically sad to see a once vibrant town come to this result. It’s unbelievab­le.

I’m curious why tractor trailers and constructi­on vehicles such as dump trucks are allowed to travel on Wells Road off Route 724. That road is narrow in most places and when these vehicles take their half out of the middle of the road it is very dangerous. Should be a law.

Our office recently had five white peacocks stolen. If anyone should happen to see a white peacock which are rare in the area please contact Edward C. Lomire DMD at 610-845-2664.

Growing up as a kid back in the 70s and even up to about 10 years before today, I had never heard of bedbugs so much. Now all of sudden you see trucks here in Pottstown and they’re treating for bedbugs. Where’s this coming from all these bedbugs and who’s bringing them here?

There seems to be no end to the Democratic Party and their hypocrisy especially what’s happening in Virginia. The governor still hasn’t resigned, the lieutenant governor the attorney general. When does it end? And the fact that the Democrats’ mantra is guilty until proven innocent especially with Judge Kavannagh but it doesn’t seem to apply here. —JT

I’m answering Al asking where someone went to school or who taught them history because he says Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party freed the slaves with the Emancipati­on Proclamati­on Act. That is not really true. The Emancipati­on Proclamati­on changed the federal legal status of more than three million enslaved Americans but what really, really ultimately liberated all the slaves was the rebel surrender.

This is to Lefty. The far left Democratic Party liberals now want to terminate children even after they’re born or right up to being born. And as far as cages go with the illegal immigrant children, they’re not in a cage, they’re in a fenced area. I guess it broke your heart the other day when you heard Trump say that we will never become a socialist country.

To be fair to Donald Trump, 67 percent of his wives have left him, 100 percent of his casinos have been bankrupted, 100 percent of his universiti­es and charities have been shut down and over 50 percent of his other businesses have failed. So the White House staff turnover at 43 percent actually means that he’s over performing as president. —Jay Miller

Did you know that the American Congress decades ago would not let the United States Postal Service buy helicopter­s and leftover aircraft from Vietnam because they would cost too much? Now they have to pay to ship. What do you think? Did our Congress do something good or was Trump around back then? —Night Light

Is Trump into drivers license renewal? The other day getting mine I got asked three times if I spoke English. My family’s been around here since 1749. —Radical

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