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Don’t be fooled by GOP’s rhetoric; Robert Weber; Beaver County Times; October 8, 2010.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Letter writer Michael Stuban was way off base in his Sept. 28 letter to the editor ‘Democrats are not the same old party.’ (I assume he is a Republican.)”
[RWC] After you read this, you’ll find Mr. Weber has nerve writing someone else is “way off base.”
“The Democratic Party is still for working and low-income people.”
[RWC] When did it start? Democrat party positions are purely about taking power from “We the People” and giving to big government.
“Look what the Reagan-Bush era brought.”
[RWC] Based on this letter’s content, I don’t know how Mr. Reagan got dragged in. Everything Mr. Weber writes about happened well after Mr. Reagan left office.
“Our country went back into enormous debt. (President Bill Clinton left office with the United States having a surplus.) Bush started a war in the Middle East, a never-ending one; passed legislative loopholes for the wealthy to avoid high income taxes to the IRS (you get this break if your yearly salary is more than $250,000); caused the mess in health care coverage by providing family coverage to all illegal immigrants (probably better insurance than I can afford).”
[RWC] According to the Treasury Department, “Our country” has never been out of debt, going all the way back to 1791. I suspect Mr. Weber meant the budget deficit. The budget surplus had already declined in Bill Clinton’s last budget (FY 2001). Note, all spending bills start in the House and Republicans were the majority party in Congress at that time. The primary reasons for the deficits early in the Bush administration were the recession that started toward the end of the Clinton administration, 9/11 and its aftereffects, and the insecurity caused by the uncovering of accounting scandals that flourished during the Clinton administration.
“Bush started a war in the Middle East?” The last I heard, war in the Middle East started when Islamist terrorists based in Afghanistan attacked us on September 11, 2001.
The comment about “loopholes for the wealthy to avoid high income taxes” is a fabrication. The Bush tax rate cuts went to everyone and resulted in the evil rich paying a greater portion than prior to the rate cuts. That’s why Democrats don’t want to let those tax rates expire on January 1, 2011. Despite saying the Bush tax rate cuts “were tax cuts for the rich” since 2003, they now concede the rate cuts also applied to middle and low income earners.
As for Mr. Bush “caused the mess in health care coverage by providing family coverage to all illegal immigrants,” does Mr. Weber just make this stuff up?
“My rebuttal could go on and on until I’d run out of ink and paper.”
[RWC] In case you missed it, Mr. Weber’s “rebuttal” was factually wrong on every point. You have to wonder where Mr. Weber gets his “info.”
“Don’t be fooled by Republican rhetoric.
“The Democratic Party still strives to help the middle-class, the disabled and the poor.”
[RWC] Sure. You’ll note Mr. Weber didn’t provide any examples.
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