In today’s era of fake news and biased political media, I find The Wall Street Journal to be one of the few intelligent, balanced major media outlets. Recently its top economic and political reporters listed their biggest “hits” and “misses” in 2023 as follows:
• Hit — Developments in biomedical and artificial intelligence industries.
• Miss — Overemphasis on climate control subsidies on electrical vehicles and green energy.
• Hit — Supreme Court decisions supporting free speech and balance of government power.
• Miss — Republican freedom caucus hamstringing House functioning.
• Hit — School choice now available to parents in 12 states.
• Miss — Bidenomics and record government spending and debt.
To this list, I would add the following misses: the disaster at our southern border, the increase in crime on our city streets, the politicization of the Department of Justice and the IRS by the party in power and the corruption of the mainstream media.
The big question is, will we suffer another four years of Misses, and misguided policies, or will a new round of leaders return us to fiscal, monetary and political sanity, let alone a safer, more peaceful world?
Ron Raymond
Buffalo Township