How blind can you be to support and defend eight years of the Bush administration that deregulated the financial system to the point that it brought the entire world to the brink of disaster? And how about the deregulation of the environmental progress that we had made under more enlightened administrations?
ECONOMY TURNAROUND
President Obama has been in office a little over a year and has already
started to turn the economy around. Jobs are being created, the real
estate market is picking up, and more firms are hiring, including IBM in
Essex which has just announced that they are hiring 100 people as soon
as they show up for interviews. If you and other like-minded prophets of
doom would read the newspapers, you would see this happening: 36
percent increase in the real estate transactions in the Northeast,
factory orders exceeding expectations, etc. Time to wake up!
For those who are so impatient and say that it isn't fast enough, just
remember that our economy has been unraveling for eight somber and
irresponsible years, and that it takes a long time to change course - as
it takes to move a large ship on the ocean.
FACTS
The Republicans in Congress have been obstructionists since the
Democrats gained control of both houses. They have plastered the
airwaves with lies and fear tactics not seen in our lifetime. One only
needs to look up the facts on www.factcheck.org, of the University of
Pennsylvania Annenberg Policy Center, to get the facts right and become
educated about the outrageous claims made by the extreme right.
If Teddy Roosevelt and the other presidents who tried could not get
health care passed, it is because of the vested interests against it. It
would prevent big donors from making the indecent profits they are
making under the present system. It has nothing to do with the fact that
it is a bad idea. It's only a bad idea to those who would lose if it
were to become law.
Ms. Leotta may have been very disappointed with the care she received in
England, but I have firsthand experience of the bad care I received in
this country following my car accident. One cannot judge an entire
system because of one bad incident. Dartmouth would have been a better
choice than Fletcher Allen, but that is not where the ambulance took me
in my coma.
But if you insist on burying your head in the sand, you'll never find
out what is going on in the world.
De Marne lives in Waitsfield and Essex.
