Giving thanks
As we strategy Thanksgiving it turns into tough for a lot of households to totally benefit from the vacation as inflation and different elements have have negatively impacted their livelihood.
When household and buddies collect this yr, deal with all of the presents and advantages all of us obtain from the numerous companies which might be supplied by residing on this nice nation of ours.
Many are absolutely obvious equivalent to our robust navy, heroic first responders, medical suppliers and our non secular communities.
There are additionally educators, truck drivers for important wants, entertainers and sport’s groups for our enjoyment, municipal staff, authorities officers, business and retail companies amongst many others.
Sure we do have present difficulties which will or could not move quickly so deal with just some issues this yr that make your life safer and extra rewarding.
Bob Sweeney
Warwick, RI
Fossil fuels
Keep in mind the marshmallow take a look at? Little children have been put in entrance of a marshmallow, and informed that if they might await 10 minutes earlier than consuming it, they’d get a second marshmallow. The youngsters who have been capable of wait apparently did higher in life.
The Herald editorial workers (“Bay Staters nearly caught a break on vitality prices”) need to eat the primary marshmallow, straight away. They need extra of the fossil fuels that we now have proper now, and that lobbyists inform us style so good.
Bemoaning the stalling of a invoice that might permit Massachusetts to throw out the local weather targets that the legislature handed, they advocate for extra fossil gasoline, much less assist for clear vitality. This ignores two info. One is the appalling expense that local weather change goes to carry, for all of us. The opposite is the truth that clear vitality – photo voltaic – is now the most cost effective type of vitality out there, and that a lot of the rising price of vitality represents the fixing of outdated fossil vitality techniques. Clear vitality brings worth stability, long term lowered price, and much more – good jobs.
All of us need vitality to be inexpensive, however Massachusetts residents are sensible sufficient to attend for the second marshmallow. Don’t seize this primary chew!
Susan Donaldson
Northampton
Democrats
As as a veteran of overseas wars, and the son and grandson of veterans of overseas wars, I can’t say simply how embarrassed and disgusted I’m by the political show at the moment being placed on by a gaggle of Democrats together with our personal Consultant Maggie Goodlander. This group of politicians are utilizing intentional subversion of the navy for his or her political positive aspects, and it shouldn’t be countenanced by any self-respecting, patriotic American.
This sample of subversion of our president by radical Democrats shouldn’t be new. Folks like John Kerry, Mark Milley, and Anthony Blinken having clandestine conferences with world leaders undermining our govt’s authority, the leaking of labeled paperwork by James Comey, John Bolton, and others, the entire Article 25 sham from the identical individuals who would later cover Joe Biden’s incompetence from the American individuals, these are simply nasty, power-mad individuals, and so they should be held accountable.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
