The recent Letter to the Editor asked simply: “Do we really need four more years of this?”

The online attacks from the left wing were immediate and predictable.

We have a president who would rather appear on a TV show (“The View”) than accept a meeting request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a critical moment in Mideast history.

Our embassies are under siege, attacked and an ambassador murdered, and our president says it was a mob that got out of control and denies it was terrorism for two weeks.

The national debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to $16.2 trillion under Barack Obama.

Prices on commodities rise faster than we can keep up.

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Gas and energy prices at or near all-time highs, and our dollar’s value continues to plummet.

Average American household incomes are down 8.2 percent under Obama. A record number of Americans are now on food stamps.

Unemployment continues to be at more than 8 percent for 43 months in a row, and that doesn’t include the underemployed and those who have quit looking.

Meanwhile, family health care premiums have gone up more than $3,000 in spite of Obama’s campaign pledge to get them cut by $2,500, and seniors in 7 out of 10 Medicare drug plans face a double-digit rate increase.

Fifty-five percent of small business owners would not start their business today; 69 percent say Obama’s regulatory policies have hurt their businesses.

Who’s to blame?

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That “Blame Bush Card” is worn out, so it must be the evil rich who don’t pay their “fair share.”

Currently, the dreaded 1 percent pay 59 percent of all income tax. Romney paid a higher tax rate than 97 percent of Americans.

Four years of Obama and failure.

 

Greg Theriault

Skowhegan


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