Why do Republicans complain about President Obama wanting to spend money to improve our highways, bridges and schools? This creates jobs and improves our transportation system and schools. What’s wrong with that?
It’s a lot more than Bush ever did for his own country.
Some Republican governors, including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Mark Sanford of South Carolina, have stated that they will not accept parts of their states’ allotments of the stimulus program.
I suggest President Obama immediately redistribute these funds to other states such as Kansas and Missouri, where there is real leadership in the governors’ offices that cares enough to want to help their citizens.
The tax increase on the wealthy that President Obama is proposing is long overdue. Why shouldn’t they pay their fair share?
This is not a step toward socialism, as so many sore losers on the right repeat ad nauseam. It’s a push back to democracy and away from the plutocracy we have lived in since we made the grand mistake of electing Ronald Reagan.
Kudos to George Lafferty (2/27, Letters, “GOP’s sudden frugality”) who so eloquently wrote about the Republicans’ past silence about debt spending. For weeks now, I have been aghast when I hear on TV or read in the paper about all the Republican outrage over deficit spending. For years we have never heard a peep from any of them.
Suck it up, guys. Your newly found outrage is eight years too late.
Susan F. Weiner