Nearly four years have passed since the Bush administration left our nation in a crisis second only to the Great Depression. From that time to the present, the Republican House has vowed to prevent President Barack Obama from any victory that would again raise our nation to prosperity.
These are the same people who placed our nation in two wars that appear to have been entered only to profit the military establishment of our nation. To wars that have now consumed the lives of thousands of our finest and maimed tens of thousands as well.
According to cable news reports, 17 to 18 veterans take their own lives daily as a result of the carnage witnessed and the failure of medical assistance for them. These same people who brought our nation to this debacle desire now to reward Wall Street and the privileged few by privatizing Social Security and Medicare, destroying collective bargaining and eliminating the voice of the middle class.
Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such complete failure by our elected officials to seek common ground. I have certainly been aware for the past 50 or 60 years of our nation working for the common good. Today, and for the past two years, that has not occurred. The idea that an elected official of either party would sign a pledge to not increase taxes is beyond my understanding. Not that we should increase taxes but that we should not abdicate our capacity to do that which serves the common good.
Regarding Social Security, allow me to make a salient point. Social Security has been the backbone of our nation from its inception in 1937. It has never once cost our government one red cent. It provides today a decent life for millions who might otherwise have no other choice. To privatize Social Security and Medicare would allow profit taking on a scale that would certainly destroy both programs.
I implore the voters of Ohio to consider how our nation came to this time. Regardless of race, creed or religion, we share a common goal and we must return to elected officials who will work for the common good.
God bless America and god bless our veterans of every war.
Clyde Mowery
Lucasville
We have had three and half years of Obama imposing his costly agenda on business with socialist schemes like Obamacare, proposing new taxes on them and new penalties for energy production. Nobody can predict the increased cost of doing business with someone like him in charge but they do know that as he vows to increase their cost, they must cut back, lay off and protect their capital until the day that politicians are more business friendly or as many have done, close up shop and move somewhere else, taking much needed jobs with them.
Wake up Clyde, attitudes like yours and those of union leadership, in order to protect and subsidize their own well-being have voted in high tax high regulation liberals for decades and the result has been manufacturer after manufacturer leaving the country so they can continue to compete. Its simple Clyde, If you want jobs, you need to vote for a conservative who will give them what they need to survive. If you want to be enslaved by a government program with no hope of ever bettering yourself and having a large oppressive government telling you how to live, vote for Obama again.
"Taxed" is backing failed republican / tea party plans that make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Their idea of the "common man bettering himself" is really a race to the bottom for everyone except the rich.
Trickle down does not work and in fact got us into this mess. Rising income inquality, while tax rates are at an historic low, is largely responsible for our lack of economic growth.
"Penalties for energy production"...meaning making them clean their messes so we have clean water to drink? Requiring responsibility?
Oh and- how did that nearly $12 million tax break for Bob Evans, served up by Kasich, work out for Ohio?