LETTER: Heading for the cliff with Romney

To the Telegram:

Deja Vu, we all know the meaning of the phrase, the feeling that we’ve done something or been somewhere before, though we can’t really remember for sure when, where or even if. Now we must ask ourselves, before the November election, if we really want to take some kind of weird trip down a foggy memory lane to a place where Mitt Romney has said he’d like to take us.

I’m sure most of us remember that place, and I doubt many would think of it as a place to which we’d like to return. I’m talking about to the Good Old Days, when G.W. Bush, was riding herd on the old ranch, doing his best to run the whole herd (I’m talking about our economy) off the proverbial cliff. Yep, that’s what that old Texas cowboy was up to, giving huge tax breaks to the rich —he called them job creators. In reality jobs went overseas, giving subsidies to big oil, as they continued to rake in huge profits while raising prices, deregulating banks so they could engage in high risk behavior with other people’s money, until they finally drove our, and the world’s, economy to its knees, and putting two wars on the nation’s credit card.

No, I don’t think many of us want to go back to those days, but that’s exactly where Romney has said he wants to take us. He says we have too many regulations on banks, need more tax cuts for the job creators — worked so good last time — more subsidies to oil companies, and he has mentioned he’d have no problem going to war with Iran, while calling Russia our greatest adversary.

I can forgive the Mittster on that one, I guess no one has told him the cold war has been over for a while.

If you really believe that Romney is the guy, knowing that he’s just going to repeat the failed policies of the Bush administration, just when our economy — in spite of an obstructionist Republican congress is starting to recover, be my guest and vote for the guy, but remember I told you so, when we start going over that cliff again.

George Richard,

New Richmond, Wis.

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