Conservatives’ policy contrary to our needs

When we go into a recession, the economy loses trillions of dollars. Ninety-nine percent of economists want to add money back into the economy but conservatives say take more out.

The median household income is about $47,000. Out of that, the household buys a house, car and pays bills. Their debt is several times the household income, which depends on maintaining a weekly paycheck. When the national government debt is equal to the national income, the conservatives lose their minds and yet the government can create its own paycheck.

Conservatives worry about the debt on the children. The national debt of World War II was greater than now. Those children were called baby boomers, the wealthiest generation America ever produced.

Business people will tell you in order to hire people they need customers with disposable incomes. Our foolish governor discharges people, cuts wages and burdens wages with additional payments. He then comes to Cedar Rapids and tries to cancel fair-wage contracts to lower wages. Which community would be better able to afford to pay taxes, bills and provide a better place to live, one where the median wage is $8 an hour or $20 an hour?

Conservatives made Iowa a right-to-work state, aka low-wage state, and then complain when their children graduate from school and move out of state to get better-paying jobs.

You clever conservatives.

Dean E. Owens

Palo