Letter of the Week: GOP Is Slowing the Recovery

This week's letter comes from Nathan Glover of Central Oregon Jobs with Justice. Thanks for the letter, Nathan. You can pick up your winnings, a pint of cask-aged Mirror Mirror at our office, 704 NW Georgia.

It's been two years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a global financial meltdown. The big Wall Street banks were bailed out and are now making record profits and major corporations are sitting on $8 trillion, the biggest pile of cash reserves since 1963. For working families, the crisis did not start in 2008. They've been getting what Steven Greenhouse called “the Big Squeeze” for decades, as the income gap between the rich and the rest of us tripled. These families are continuing to bear the brunt of the economic crisis.

Do we want to be led down that same path that we seem to go each and every election year? We are bombarded by the media telling us whom the right candidate is for our best interests. I believe it is time for us as a community to stop and really think about the best candidate that would look out for our interests and not the party line's interests. Judy Stiegler has proven time and again that the only vote that she knows how to cast is a “YEA” vote when it comes to raising the taxes on her constituents. It is clear that we cannot afford another term of Steigler economics.