Who do you trust with important issues?
How long would Bud Stevenson (“Obama has plenty of work to do,” Jan. 24) like us to stay in Iraq to police it? President Barack Obama is darned if he does (orders to take out bin Laden and Gadhafi) and darned if he doesn’t (stay in Iraq indefinitely, start a war with Pakistan and Iran).
What about creating the most important health care system this country has ever had after the creation of Medicare, environmental protection laws strengthened, restoring the auto industry to good health? This list of successes is long.
We Democrats aren’t vocal enough. The conservative element being heard today is negative and consistent.
President Obama is the only one in this upcoming election who cares about the middle class. He values public education and assisting those of us who are out of work and in need of a temporary hand up. Calling him “the food-stamp president” is indeed a reminder to the electorate that he is the one who will make sure those in need are helped. Certainly, more people may be getting food stamps now than ever, but there are also more people out of work than ever. Much of this has to do with the imbalance in our country of big pharma, big financial entities and fewer manufacturing and production jobs. Those jobs are being sent overseas to protect the almighty profit margin.
Republicans are against putting people to work building infrastructure, but also complain about food stamps and extensions of unemployment benefits.
A choice that I’m more likely to trust President Obama with, than any of the Republican candidates, is whether or not we are going to strengthen our infrastructure, build public education and create jobs at home or spend our capital in foreign countries protecting oil and sacrificing the lives of our young people.
If you aren’t part of the 1 percent, and not too many of us are, you need to vote your heart and pay attention to the messages that don’t come from the super PACs. Hopefully, we will amend the possibility of corporations acting like people and voting big money against the middle class.
Ann L. Tingley
Suisun City
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on Feb 3 2012.
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Snake-oil salesman alert! Ann, what you’re selling has been tried before. The “War on Poverty” (Democrat LBJ) has been going on for nearly five decades… and we still have poor people! That scheme has been nothing but a way to transfer wealth and power. WWI was the “war to end all wars” (Democrat Wilson) … that didn’t work out so well. And these almost endless wars since then have been nothing but a way to change society and to transfer wealth and power. So Ann, don’t think for a moment that our problems will be solved from your end of the political scale. And don’t think for a minute that the answers come from the other end of the political scale… as I’m sure we could agree for hours on how evil the Republicans are.
Ann, if your effort here is to solve the problem, then please identify the real problem and suggest real solutions. If your effort here is to perpetuate the left-right paradigm to further the political industry and ensure more wealth and power is transferred from the people to the elite, then you are doing a great job and keep it up. All I ask is that you be honest about it… you may not be part of the “1 percent”, but you support those who are.
Yes I have to agree. Until our governemnt can at least meet halfway or better yet, get on the same page, nothing changes. Eliminating and rewriting the tax code, reducing useless and costly regulations across the board while maintaining safety, and laws that actually reduce crime, are necessary and need to be done in a fashion that benefits everyone, not just the chosen few. Americans are speaking but nobody is listening.
Good point Ann. Voting Republican as a person of the middle class is a form of Stockholm Syndrome. Republican policy clearly pushes wealth to the top at the expense of everyone else and it is LESS economically efficient overall. It’s no coincidence that the Great Depression and this second most great economic recession occurred after too many years of Republican policy.