The Sept. 11 Columbian story “Here’s why economy matters in this year’s presidential campaign” explained it well. A majority of citizens has been negatively impacted by the dismal economy — the one President Barack Obama inherited from his predecessor — so consideration of each candidate’s plans to fix that economy are critical.
I support President Obama, and here is why.
Top economic forecasters agree the current administration’s stimulus program helped prevent a depression and end the recession, with the biggest jobs improvement in 30 years. That package invested $90 billion dollars in a much-needed clean-energy program, doubling production of wind and solar power.
It launched Race to the Top, a landmark education-reform program; and included the biggest infrastructure push since President Dwight Eisenhower’s and the biggest middle-class tax cut since President Ronald Reagan’s. And, Americans finally got the beginning of serious health care reform.
I want his administration to continue on this course and set things right again.
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal contains nearly $1 trillion of unexplained cuts. Since the proposed budget already blatantly decreases assistance to the most-needy Americans, those hidden cuts must come from other supportive social programs. We’ve seen what “trickle down” does, which is nothing positive for middle class folks such as me.
