To the Editor:
In 2008, our economy had lost its grip and was on the verge of collapse. We were losing some 700,000 jobs a month. Unemployment was at 10 percent and the stock market or Dow Jones was about 6,000.
Today, we gain about 200,000 – 300,000 jobs a month. Unemployment is at 5.5 percent and the Dow Jones has tripled to 18,000.
We have other problems, such as Isis and other Jihadi-type threats. But that all originated when we decided to attack Iraq, a country that has nothing to do with the September 11 attacks. Thus, we stepped on a hornet’s nest, which brought us to where we are today. Now we do, and it was a hard lesson to learn. To say nothing of the $3 trillion it added to our deficit. Before then, our deficit was $1 trillion in 1980. That was the year the Republicans began their 20 out of 28 year leadership. Reagan and Bush had 12 years combined.
To keep things in perspective, we didn’t have to meddle in the Middle East. We should have learned our lesson in 1983 when 243 marines in Lebanon were blown up. I remember who was president at that time.
When the Iraq war (2003-2010) wound down, we lost another 4,000 American soldiers. Will we ever learn? When things are OK, why fix them? We just had to experiment with wars and nation building.
All things considered, this is why America will not likely consider a Bush, Romney, Christie, Huckabee, Rubio, or any Republican governor in 2016. Should the American people deviate from this, they will prove the old adage: “Fool me once and shame on you…”
Those who fail to remember are doomed to repeat. Their supply-side economics and too much free market has put us in danger.
