Voters should fire their employee Grassley

Where I worked for 36 years, we had to be evaluated once a year on our job performance. I think it's time we evaluate our employee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, to see how he has been doing the last few years. His 15 to 20 ads a day on TV says he works for us. Let's see.

When Bush was president, our employee Grassley was his water boy. He was first in line to vote for Bush's spending and borrowing money. The tax cuts for his rich friends, he was number one in getting that through. Now he wants to keep it in place for his rich friends, so they can pay for all the ads on TV to get him re-elected. That doesn't sound like he's working for us.

In 2003, he cowrote the prescription drug act (with help from the drug lobby). That should have been good for us, but wait. To protect high drug and insurance profits, he inserted language that prevented the government from negotiating bulk prices for Medicare recipients. So now we pay more for drugs than any other country.

Doesn't sound like he's working for us.

The list goes on and on, but we don't have the space to list them all.

Grassley, you are working for your rich buddies in Washington, so I think you should stay home and live on the money you get from the government from not farming your farm.

In other words, employee Grassley, you're fired.

Bernard Quint

Shellsburg