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Obama has one goal in mind
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Sep. 18, 2011 12:09 am
I feel compelled to answer the Sept. 6 letter titled “What President Obama has accomplished.”
I have watched this man and his policies and I don't like either. I don't think that the USA needs to be apologized for, ever - for any reason.
If Obama was serious about creating jobs, he would stop putting barricades up to hinder job growth. He is fond of saying that this is a nation of laws, then gives the order to not prosecute illegal aliens. He says he wants to create jobs and then has the National Labor Relations Board file a lawsuit preventing building an aircraft factory in South Carolina.
He touts credit card reform and then we see the credit card companies raise the minimum payments. He touts the reform of the health care system to lower costs for America. He touts his reform of Wall Street and banking practices. He says that he wants to reform entitlements, such as Social Security. Would someone please tell him that Social Security is not an entitlement? It was paid for over the lifetime of each retiree.
This man has one goal in mind: to further government control over the American people.
Jack L. Coon
Cedar Rapids
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