Republicans have short memories

Republican candidates have forgotten recent history of 2000 to 2008 in which a Republican president put this country in two wars, passed legislation which supported the richest 1 percent in this country and created $8 trillion in debt, which put us on a course to the greatest recession since the Great Depression of the 20th Century.

The reason there are so many Americans on food stamps in our history has a direct correlation to George Walker Bush and the legacy he passed on to his successor.

The 10 months before his presidential term expired, 17 million Americans had lost their jobs. How can anyone point to our current commander as responsible for the actions of another?

Where are the jobs that the Republican House promised when they took control in November 2010? Every candidate and the Tea Party campaigned on this to get elected. Where are the jobs they said would come by extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich in December 2010, which they got by threatening to close down government?

And then you have a candidate who laughs about making $375,000 as being a little bit of money for speaking engagements. That amount being seven times the average American’s income.

And then he protects his income from taxes by placing it in offshore havens. And pays taxes on his income at the 15 percent rate. What an elitist.

The “Occupy Now” movement itself should be adequate to send the message that the majority of Americans are tired of politics as usual, saying the convenient thing rather than offering concrete solutions to problems and how they will adopt them.

We as Americans deserve much better from both parties.

Tom Rajcan

Wheaton