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Open Letter to the Editors (and voters, obviously. That means you.)
Dear Editors,
For all the issues in the elections coming up November 9th, it really comes down to one simple question. Over the past six years, the Republicans have had complete control of our government, and everything they've done has turned out disastrously. Nobody who owns a business would keep an employee on who screwed up everything they tried, why should we? That's really all it comes down to.
It's been six years since 9/11, yet Osama Bin Laden hasn't been captured. President Bush says he "doesn't think about him much." The invasion of Iraq has hardly been "greeted with open arms," was bungled from day one, and we still haven't found any WMDs. There's still a gaping pit in the center of Manhattan. New Orleans is still half-empty and rotting, more than a year after Katrina. The Medicare superscription drug bill is just a confusing mess that's cost more than we were told it would. The budget deficit has exploded, and all the Republicans have offered are expensive wars and tax cuts most of us don't get any from.
There's any number of other examples. But all of this has been done completely by the Republicans. They have had complete control of the government for the past six years. If this is the best they can do, why on earth would we trust them to do a better job in the future?
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I'm sending this in to my local papers tomorrow, I probably should have done it sooner, but I hadn't managed to get my thoughts in order before. Any comments or suggestions or whatever are welcome, of course. And it's not really all it comes down to, but it's one of the major things.
For all the issues in the elections coming up November 9th, it really comes down to one simple question. Over the past six years, the Republicans have had complete control of our government, and everything they've done has turned out disastrously. Nobody who owns a business would keep an employee on who screwed up everything they tried, why should we? That's really all it comes down to.
It's been six years since 9/11, yet Osama Bin Laden hasn't been captured. President Bush says he "doesn't think about him much." The invasion of Iraq has hardly been "greeted with open arms," was bungled from day one, and we still haven't found any WMDs. There's still a gaping pit in the center of Manhattan. New Orleans is still half-empty and rotting, more than a year after Katrina. The Medicare superscription drug bill is just a confusing mess that's cost more than we were told it would. The budget deficit has exploded, and all the Republicans have offered are expensive wars and tax cuts most of us don't get any from.
There's any number of other examples. But all of this has been done completely by the Republicans. They have had complete control of the government for the past six years. If this is the best they can do, why on earth would we trust them to do a better job in the future?
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I'm sending this in to my local papers tomorrow, I probably should have done it sooner, but I hadn't managed to get my thoughts in order before. Any comments or suggestions or whatever are welcome, of course. And it's not really all it comes down to, but it's one of the major things.
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"Nobody who owns a business would keep an employee on who screwed up everything they tried, so why should we?"
Not sure how to fix "The invasion of Iraq has hardly been "greeted with open arms," was bungled from day one, and we still haven't found any WMDs.", but the third element of that list does not fit grammatically with the rest:
The invasion of Iraq [we still haven't found any WMDs]That's just what jumped out at me.
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