Silent majority

I love when Howie Carr writes an in-depth article revealing the person behind the person. Calla Mairead Walsh is revealed as just another phony. We’re hearing about a lot of younger people like Walsh. Siding with dubious entities on the world stage. I wonder if she became this politically active from reading or getting educated somewhere? Then there are the gangs of kids who are filmed beating or killing another person. Or maybe they’re into smashing windows of store owners. Youths raid an Amazon truck while the driver is out delivering a package. All these stories make it look like the younger generation is lost. Not really. There is a greater percentage of kids and young adults who don’t make the news. They’re taking the high road. They are today’s “silent majority.” They don’t make waves. They have jobs. They do well at school and some even step into school sports and this paper should be commended for in-depth high school sports reporting. In conclusion, it’s like an iceberg: you see 1/7th of it while most of it is not seen.

Jack Zaccardi

East Boston

Basic income

It makes no sense to redistribute taxpayer money to help the poor, how about a “basic living tax” that allows the poor to accumulate wealth before they pay any taxes?

To redistribute taxpayer money for a “guaranteed basic income” is foolish and wasteful, whereas allowing the poor to accumulate
wealth is a better use of taxpayer money. Let them create a
“reservoir” of wealth before they have to pay taxes.

When the poorest of Americans prosper, we all prosper and get
a better return on the taxes “spent.”

Don Schwarz

Stoughton

Biden on Iran

Gobsmacked and flabbergasted am I but not President Joe Biden and his mentors, Barack Obama and John Kerry. How is it possible that these public servants, supported by congressional Democrats, repeatedly provide succor to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a terror-supporting hater of America? A sycophant justifies obsequious behavior with the expectation of some advantage, but in these hunger games the good guys have lost at love. After all, Iran has gained the expertise to develop a nuclear weapon. While it treads heavy water on uranium enrichment, it is developing missile and submarine delivery systems. The smart thing for Iran to do now, especially since a shaky Biden administration has lost face in the talks to re-up the original nuclear deal and is unlikely to initiate a war should Iran announce its explosive breakthrough, would be to stay the final enrichment step and hold the world hostage for a more propitious time, a time when it can leverage fear and loathing of the bomb for Tehran’s greater good. President Biden and his Foggy Bottom boys at State would be mightily relieved, might even spin the delay as his own triumph.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio