Robert Ricketts has posted another wonderful op-ed at Blue 19th. True to his straight-talking image, he doesn't pull any punches:
We need change in Washington. For the past six years, the Republican Party has been in the driver’s seat in Washington and they are lost. None of their plans are working. Indeed, everything they have done has failed. Consider where they have brought us.
Our federal government is, quite literally, bankrupt. Our national debt is approaching 10 trillion dollars and it owns assets of only a fraction of this amount. George Bush promised to cut the national debt in half. Instead, by the time he leaves office, he and the Republican Congress will have doubled it.
Our tax system is so broken that it asks the least from those who have the most, leaving the burden of paying for government on the backs of the middle class, and increasingly, on the backs of the next generation.
