Letter to the Editor: Says election affords chance for real change

Do you believe we as a country are better off today than we were four years ago? I do not.

Four million families lost their homes between 2007 and 2012. There are 600,000 more foreclosures on hold. House prices have declined by 20 to 30 percent, 8.3 percent of Americans are unemployed, and 6 percent more are underemployed. Many more have given up looking or took early retirement.

Salaries of many employees have diminished, 46 million people are on food stamps, and U.S. poverty is about 46.2 million people.

Our credit rating has been downgraded from AAA to AA plus, dividends or interest on investments or savings are minimal, and our national debt has gone from $10 trillion to $16 trillion-plus in less than four years.

Our president is destroying our country, turning it from a republic form of government to a democratic-socialist welfare state and from self-sufficient, independent culture to a collective government-dependent society. I believe that the great hope and change that was promised us was a lie and has created a sense of hopelessness, fear, and despair.

We have a choice come November — a choice of real, meaningful change that we can be proud of. It’s a choice between personal freedom and independence or a collective, dependent society ruled by a suppressive, dictatorial government.

Robert C. Whittaker
Providence Forge