Don't blame Bush for financial crisis

Back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton and the Democrats pressured the mortgage institutions to loosen credit restrictions for less-affluent home seekers.

The current rash of foreclosures and the taxpayer bailout of mortgage companies are the effects of those bad loans.

When George Bush took office in 2001, Bill Clinton and the Democrats handed him a sick economy, a plunging stock market and a high jobless rate.

President Bush and the Republicans gave us six years of prosperity.

Then the Democrats won control of Congress and the Senate in 2006, and suddenly we are back to economic woes.

Yes, we desperately need change in Washington; we need to get rid of the Democrats before they completely wreck our economy.

Donald Froelich

Mount Prospect