It isn't often that you run into a really, really great letter to the editor in your friendly neighborhood newspaper. This week was different. Read, enjoy, spread.
A pledge to whom?
So, the GOP has its "Pledge to America." I wonder who the Republicans are making their pledge to?
When they make their pledge to roll back regulation of business, are they making that pledge to the people of the Gulf Coast inundated with oil or to BP, which put it there?
Are they making that pledge to our parents, who lost huge portions of their retirement income due to the economic volatility over the last few years, or to Wall Street, which made its money from that same volatility, created by alternatively pumping and dumping (shorting and fear-mongering) companies that they intentionally fill with debt for just that purpose?
When they make their pledge to repeal the recently passed health care reform law, are they making that pledge to those of us who paid premiums expecting to have our doctor bills paid or the health insurers who make their money taking and investing our premiums and refusing to pay our claims based on small-print technicalities, even refusing to return the premium payments we already made?
The answer is simple: The GOP is making its pledge to the generationally rich and their hired Wall Street sharks -- those who grow their wealth based on the economic volatility that supports the short trade every few years and allows companies to easily fire people and hire replacements at lower wages. All at the expense of a stable economy that helps the rest of us just trying to raise our families to live healthy lives and build meaningful careers.
MARK J. SENEDIAK
Mt. Lebanon
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