To the editor,
What is the matter with the United States? We rank 37 in education and our medical care is not, as the Republicans claim, the best in the world but only the most expensive. Our trains run slower than most other countries and our bridges are falling apart.
I have been exchanging Christmas letters with on old collage friend, Bert Bakker, who lives in the Netherlands and have some thoughts to share. Bert recently took another trip through northern Europe after 20 years and had some observation. The stores had more goods and the people seemed better off. A second observation was there were not as many military planes flying around. Then he went past an air base and it was growing crops and had been rented out to farmers. What had changed was the USSR had collapsed and defense begets were cut. It was the old story of guns or butter.
Instead of funding our schools, building faster trains, building new bridges during the Bush administration we have spent a trillion on fighting in Iraq. We have the guns, but now we are short on butter.
Now, not one Republican voted for a measure to extend the Bush Tax Cuts to the middle class and even people with income of a million dollars. They want the tax cuts extended to multi-billionaires. And here I am a mere multi-thousandaire getting stuck with the taxes!
What happened to the GOP?\
Grant Langdon
Grant Langdon axed what happened to the GOP.
ReplyDeleteWell its still old but not so grand and parties only in the closet and places like airport bathrooms. It has been taken over by religious crazies and people as stupid as the guns they shoot at animals for fun. Sorry Sarah, but its true. GOP cares only about big business and the rich, not the struggling middle class and poor. They are dead inside and unable to care about people that have souls.
Lincoln would be ashamed of the GOP if he was still around.