The stimulus saved the jobs of municipal workers, and provided additional unemployment benefits, but it has not provided jobs in the private sector. The money went to government agencies, colleges, non-profit organizations and entitlement programs. These programs will generate annual deficits of $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion for years to come. Our government has squandered our financial resources on failed economic programs, and the American work force continues to suffer.
The domestic priority should be creating millions of new jobs, and other domestic initiatives, including health care reform, should wait until the economy improves.
The Administration and Congress have to reduce the size of government; cut business taxes; and give U.S. companies incentives to operate in this country, and dis-incentives to move operations and jobs overseas.
Donald Moskowitz
Londonberry, NH
Open Letter To Hannity, Beck And Limbaugh
To The Record-Courier:
I am heavily involved in the Oregon Republican Party, the Republican Chair of a Congressional District in Oregon and a County Chair for over 10 years. I put in 15 to 30 hours per week every week (gratis) on conservative issues and supporting conservative candidates across the political landscape.
Mr. Hannity's recent leader for his TV show of "Tea Party Battles the Republican Party," Beck's berating and constant barrage that "Republicans" are not conservative enough and are as corrupt as the Democrats, and Rush's constant din that Republicans don't get it and have abandoned conservative values are all a bunch of seriously damaging untruths and misrepresentations of the vast, vast majority of Republicans.
We live out here where the political rubber meets the road and politics means lives, jobs and freedom lost or saved. The conservative movement that we are fighting for takes a huge bashing every time you guys put all "Republicans" up against your idea of what conservatism should be. You sit there in the cities in your posh dwellings and swanky studios and haven't a clue what we conservative street fighters are doing day after day in the political trenches. Selling your shows by sensationalizing differences is one thing, but lumping all Republicans in the bag with a few who constantly draw the media attention as melba toast moderates or RINO's plays right into the hands of what the Liberals and the MSM are trying to do…. Divide us and cause distrust between Conservatives.
You brand us all as not sticking to conservative principles which is overwhelmingly not true. By far, most of us are the "Tea Party Movement" and they are us. The 'new' activists in a variety of conservative advocacy groups that have sprung up, have been told for so long by you and others pundits that "Republicans" have left conservative values behind that they buy into it. Thus, they don't trust the core group that is aligned with them in most aspects of their advocacy. You don't speak for us because you have no clue who we are or what we do by the thousands of man-hours per day. These new groups are a huge source of energy, fundamental Americanism and new strength that we true Republicans are working very hard to join forces with and have join us. Sell your shows as you will, but don't do it on the backs of the hard working Conservative Republicans out here who are reaching out to all American conservatives.
Tim K Smith
Harney County, Ore.
