Time for Pats change
For sure there’s a problem with the New England Patriots, a record of 1-3 and it doesn’t look good going forward. So that being said, it’s time for a change and I’m saying General Manager and Head Coach. During the first four games it’s obvious that the Patriots offense has many holes in it and as a great Coach William Stephen Belichick has been in the past, the General Manager oversees draft picks and trades. Hate to say it, time for a change.
Tony Meschini
Scituate
Term Limits
Whenever Congressional Term Limits are brought up, two weak straw man arguments are quickly erected by pro-incumbency, pro-lobbyist, pro-pork barrel spending types. The first is “We have term limits, they are called elections.” Various organizations such as Ballotpedia and the 538 Project analyze election data for trends and generate reporting on competitiveness of races and responsiveness of government. In states lacking local term limits, those numbers are always poorest for the governed, but one stat really debunks this pull-string response; in 2022, a year with 18% of Americans polled having a favorable view of Congress, 100% of Senate incumbents running were reelected.
The other toddler’s response is that of “institutional knowledge.” With a president in his 80s that has been in Washington a full fifth of the Republic’s entirelife span, with California’s senior senator dying in office at 90 a day after she was casting votes last week, and having just watched another “Continuing Resolution” slush fund get jammed through at the 11th hour, pushing us closer to a national financial death spiral – all from the oldest, most “institutionally knowledgeable” Congress in history – I think we can all agree there is more political red ink than black on the political ledger from “institutional knowledge.”.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
Economy
Just like the Titanic, the U.S. economy is heading for trouble and the only answer is for the Federal Reserve to keep adding more interest-rate hikes to the equation. This spells disaster for the American consumer because the cost of goods and services will increase. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was a big lie. Adding an additional $1.5 trillion into a bloated economy did not reduce inflation. Mortgage rates are at a 23-year-high and the trajectory does not look good for people who want to purchase a house. Our paychecks will buy less at the grocery store and the gas pump. Bidenomics spells trouble ahead.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
Aiding Trump
I am reminded of the fairy tale of the seven dwarfs who aid Snow White when I see seven aspirants for the Republican presidential nomination aiding Donald Trump by not criticizing him harshly for all his policy and behavioral errors. The debate stage seven are afraid of the former president and can only hope that a judicial or health stumble will lay him low. As the stage wagon moves on toward the third debate, perhaps a profile in courage will emerge.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
