(In response to Andrew Hedlund’s Oct 26 column “GOP spending bluff”)
[This article] was shameful and incomplete. You compile a list of cherry-picked facts, then rant about how the GOP is unfit to govern and how its policies are disastrous. You can blame Bush and Republicans all you want, I get it, it’s election season, but you completely ignored the countless faults and hypocrisies of the Democrats who have run the show for almost the past two years.
I found it extremely comical that you accused the GOP of not listening to the figures that show how their policies will fail. Then, you go on to defend the Recovery Act in the next sentence! Pure hypocrisy. Let’s talk about the Recovery Act, which is the $800 billion bill Obama rushed to get passed. He promised that with the passing of this bill, the unemployment rate would never go above 8 percent. Oh wow. And as you pointed out, it is now 9.6 percent. That’s 1.6 percent over what he promised, meaning about 3 million jobs the president promised no longer exist. That is not to mention the real unemployment rate of 22 percent, which includes discouraged workers. And you said it was “not wasteful spending at all.” How about the $90,000 from the stimulus to replace a sidewalk or the $233,000 to fund a study of “Why Africans vote?” There are hundreds of these questionable projects that the stimulus funded, most of which are wasteful. This bill was extremely expensive and has nothing to show.
Robert Celaya Undergraduate Student
