GOP not keeping its election promises

The Republican message in the 2010 election was jobs. The tea party ran on reducing deficit spending. Instead, they plunged into the new congressional session giving themselves a pay raise by reducing their five-day workweek to three days a week and working only two or three weeks a month instead all four weeks.

The major debates since the Republicans took control of the House: 1) protecting tax breaks for those earning over $250,000, 2) cutting the authority of the EPA and the Clean Air Act, 3) continuing oil industry tax breaks despite record profits in 2010, 4) attacking abortion and redefining rape, 5) turning back health care for America.

Americans want real job growth and the elimination of waste and fraud. What we don’t want is to see necessary services cut for our seniors and children. We are becoming a nation of two classes — rich and poor. The middle class is disappearing by design. The union busting we see happening in Wisconsin is only the beginning of the next step in the Republican agenda. The fact that people have to take to the streets to fight this is appalling.

Renee Shapiro

Arlington Heights