Let Us Not Forget

The Republican Party wants us to focus on Nation Security issues for the upcoming mid-term election. They keep saying that they have made our country more secure from terrorists. I think this is false. Our invasion of Iraq, which was unnecessary and made us enemies all over the world, has made us less secure. It has created more tensions in the Middle East, and hampered our efforts to eradicate Quaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

But now I want to focus on what the Republican Party wants us to forget. These are the issues that affect the daily life of all of us, as middle-class Americans. Members of the Republican Party are committed to privatizing Social Security if they maintain their majority in Congress. The Medicare Drug Bill has helped some poorer older Americans, but as fashioned by the Republican Congress, it has created windfall profits for its friends in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Many older Americans are now being faced by the infamous “doughnut hole” and they will have to pay the insurance companies their monthly fee at the same time that they pay full cost for their drugs. We need a Democratic controlled Congress to change this. Our country is being plunged deeper and deeper into debt. Our creditors, the Chinese Government, and rich Arab countries are buying up more and more of America. And yet, the Republican Congress keeps on lowering the taxes of the very rich with the lame excuse that it is helping the economy to grow. It is the large corporations that are doing well in this economy but the middle class has found that the good-paying jobs have been shipped overseas. More Americans are without health insurance as factories and businesses move overseas and jobs with pension plans and health insurance are vanishing. Even the minimum wage has not been raised.

I think that by electing Democrats to Congress we will be strengthening our security, and not weakening it. I do not agree with all them on all issues but I am sure that the middle class needs a change in leadership to address the problems created by the current administration.