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Letter to the Editor

Disappointed

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Dear Editor,

I am writing with reference to one of "Mike's" latest pieces in the Gazette in which he ended the article expressing his pride of membership in the Democratic Party.

I have known Mike for many years; sometimes we are in complete agreement and sometimes we don't think the same.

However this was a surprise. I know that he has a liberal "bent," but does he really believe in the current Democratic Party; a party of congressional politicians who absolutely support Obama care -- a program that is going to cost working class Americans many millions, if not billions of dollars.

Does he support the terrible growth in the national debt. Does he support the idea that the debacle and cover-up in Bengazi, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and the governmental gun-running to the drug cartels in Mexico are simply "phony scandles"? If so, I am disappointed in my friend's political leanings.

As for me, I am not happy with the current Republican Party either, but at least a few Republican members of Congress are asking some questions.

Maybe sometime in the near future they will offer some real and practical "solutions" to the problems this country is now facing.

Someone, somewhere, must come up with some ideas that will put this country back onto the road to recovery.

Stan Garretson

McCook, Nebraska

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  • Stan, I like Mike also but the country is headed in the wrong direction.

    -- Posted by dennis on Tue, Aug 6, 2013, at 3:05 PM

  • The government isn't actually going in any kind of direction - it's just getting fat. Not just the federal , but also all state and local governments - they just keep getting fatter. My guess is that at some point - out of sheer disgust - people will come to realize that the only solution is to stop feeding them.

    -- Posted by bob s on Wed, Aug 7, 2013, at 1:44 PM

  • I wonder, what is the right direction? Far right or far left is not the answer. How about a little compromise between the 2 parties. I notice that 2 or 3 teapartiers now want to shut down the government. Newt did that in 95-96 and the republicans lost their majority in the next election. 9% approval rate for our dear senators and representatives, seems like very few feel that they are doing the job they were elected to do. Everyone likes to say vote them out if they are not doing their jobs, what a joke around here, Adrian will be in until he decides to quit or dies, or changes parties.

    -- Posted by fit2btied on Wed, Aug 7, 2013, at 1:49 PM
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