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Boehner is worst speaker we ever had
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 5, 2013 1:18 pm
President Obama will go down as one of the better presidents in history at the rate he is going. What planet does Gary Ellis live on? His Sept. 30 letter, “Obama's record is one of failure,” was one lie after another.
Under Bush, we lost 680,000 jobs the last year he was in office. The worst recession since I was born in 1933. Gas was higher under Bush. The debt is the lowest it has been since Bush.
President Obama wanted more funding to protect the Libyan Embassy, but the Republicans and Tea Partiers in Congress said “no.”
Social Security is not in danger, it is in a separate fund from the government as is the post office.
Obama kept us out of war with Syria and he was against the two Bush wars that gave us the $8 trillion debt in the first place.
John Boehner is the worst speaker we ever had. He promised jobs and never brought a jobs bill to the floor for a vote. Now Boehner can't do a thing with his radical Tea Party who think they can undo Obamacare, which is a law, and hold it hostage until they get their way like spoiled brats. The GOP may just go like the Whig party did in the 1800s.
Estella Michels
Manchester
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