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Letter: Federal government fails the tests

The Columbian
Published: July 29, 2011, 5:00pm

If grading the performance of the government’s management of the nation over the last 10 years, consider:

Oversight of Wall Street: Complete abdication of responsibility resulting in financial meltdown. Grade F.

Wars: Unnecessary war in Iraq based on faulty intelligence, resulting in trillions of dollars of debt. Grade F.

Medicare Part D: Subsidize big pharmaceutical instead of negotiating with them like other advanced nations, resulting in trillions of dollars of debt over the next decade. Grade F.

Campaign financing: Not cleaning up contributions resulting in large corporations controlling Congress. Creating the most corrupt government in our history. Grade F.

Energy: Do-nothing plan resulting in our continued addiction to foreign petroleum sources. No plan for the future when fuel becomes more and more expensive. Continuation of atmospheric pollution with no end in sight. Grade F.

Health care: No real plan over the past 10 years to bend the cost curve toward affordable. This allowed costs to spiral out of control and gut the economics of the middle class and corporations. Grade F.

While we are bickering over left vs. right, the country is going down the tubes. We need intelligent and logical management, not ideological infighting. Time is running out — let’s stop fighting and get smart while we still have time.

Rex Goble

Vancouver

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