Dear Editor:
There is everything partisan about fiscal responsibility. After 8 years of Big Brother, Big Government Republican misrule, the United States economy was weakened to the point of collapse. While the poor were sacrificing their lives in two wars and the middle class was footing the bill, those patriotic Republicans were raking in the dough by ripping everyone off and cutting their own taxes. How quickly people forget.
If Dawn Zimmer is a Democrat, then I don’t know what a Democrat is. Busting unions while cutting taxes for the overpaid elite is not my definition of a Democrat. Its one thing to do what you have to in order to survive under a hostile regime, but it’s another to be a willing collaborator.
Teachers, librarians, firefighters, cops, sanitation workers etc. are not the enemy. People who do real work deserve to have some level of comfort and security. It’s not the working class that sucked a trillion dollars down a speculative toilet. If you want to know who’s ripping us off, follow the money. Now that they’ve gotten their investments bailed out Republicans have suddenly discovered fiscal responsibility.
I don’t like paying property taxes any more than anyone else. That’s why we should raise income taxes for the wealthy and use the money to pay for education and other universal needs. Before going after employee benefits we should be leaning a lot harder on the bloodsucking insurance parasites that have been driving up costs. When was the last time you heard of an insurance executive taking a pay cut? When was the last time Chris Christie missed a meal?
Will cutting public transportation make us less addicted to oil? Will cutting our children’s education make our country better able to compete in the global economy? Will laying off thousands of workers ease unemployment?
I expect better of our local officials than to see them licking the boot that’s stomping on their faces.
Greg Ribot