Senior citizen doesn't trust Loebsack

We need new leadership in Washington, and that includes replacing Dave Loebsack. He doesn't represent the citizens of our district.

He represents a “yes” vote for Nancy Pelosi's agenda. He voted to support Pelosi's agenda 97.8 percent of the time and didn't miss an opportunity to vote for big spending bills to put us all deeper in debt.

Loebsack's commercials say he is fighting for small businesses to create jobs, but he voted for Obamacare, which is hurting small business.

Loebsack says he wants to save Social Security, but he voted to cut Medicare and Medicare Advantage benefits. Beginning in 2012, the government will begin to cut $136 billion from the Medicare Advantage program, and it is estimated 50 percent of all seniors with Medicare Advantage will lose their plan.

He demands in his commercials that Wall Street pay us back, yet he votes to leave Washington without demanding his colleagues stay and vote to extend the Bush tax cuts for us. Congress didn't do its job. Loebsack didn't do his job either.

Loebsack doesn't represent the needs of small business or those of us who are senior citizens. As a senior citizen, I don't trust this man. I'm voting for Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

G. Richard Johnson

Cedar Rapids