More money
Once again the state is wasting your hard earned money (“Move to silence cell phones,” 5/24/23).
The state is going to use $1 million to add “cell phone restriction policies” in schools. Because the state uses our money to pay for ridiculous things like this, money is no object. How many hard working people living in Massachusetts can say the same thing?
Here is a solution that does not cost one red cent: if your phone rings in school you are expelled for one day! It is the same principle when I went to school, if you talked in class you got in trouble.
Michael Westen
Malden
Biden on Twitter
Joe Biden trolled Ron DeSantis after DeSantis’ presidential launch streaming broke Twitter, posting “This link works” on his own personal Twitter account and linking to a Biden24 donation page. Well, since Joe Biden is roughly twice as old as the internet he can probably be excused for not understanding how it works, but basically Joe – who had trouble filling a parking lot with his own launch party in 2019 – when a site gets too much traffic it breaks. And when that site is one like Twitter with massive load balancing infrastructure in front of it, you can be assured the amount of traffic in play was massive. But I am glad the dozens of people still supporting you were able to make their donations and buy Hunter’s art projects through your site Tuesday night.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
Reparations
No one on earth, especially a Democrat in favor of slavery reparations, could have nailed it any better than Peter Lucas did. As he stated, “It would then force people who never owned any slaves to pay money to people who were never slaves.” I’ve yet to see any Jewish people going after money from Germany due to the horrors of the Holocaust. Instead, they did their best to put it behind them and move on, despite the horrors that they endured. Slavery was dead wrong, as was Jim Crow, but they are both light years behind us. A large percentage of Blacks have moved on from those injustices, while getting educated, having good careers, and raising families. That is the way to succeed in America, versus waiting for an ill-advised government handout.
Tony Siciliano
Framingham
Ron DeSantis
For those 2020 Joe Biden voters who are unenthused or actively disgusted with his bait-and-switch from moderate campaigner to paternal socialist Bernie Sanders lookalike, and for those fans of Mr. Biden who are alarmed by his cognitive decline and weak Democratic bench, and for those voters who dismay of a Trump administration reprise of retribution, Ron DeSantis is now on offer. The fury and ferocity of the Trump camp’s national ad spending against him is a very loud signal that Mr. Trump fears him bigly. Mr. DeSantis begins with a substantial biography and weighty record as governor of our fourth largest state who won reelection by a landslide in 2022. He will need to flesh out the policy manual on foreign affairs and fiscal/monetary matters, but to dismiss him with hyperbolic criticism as Mr. Trump and some Democrats are doing, plays right into his hand.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
