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Stop the blame game

I’ll start off by saying I didn’t vote for President Obama and I have voted for both parties since 1954 as an independent.

I’m as sick as everyone else is at the partisanship shown by both parties. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, and I don’t care whose fault it is and there is plenty of fault to go around.

I haven’t had a raise in my Social Security for two years and the debt they talk about is incomprehensible to me.

We all know that tax breaks abound for certain privileged industries and wealthy individuals. It’s time they step up to the plate and pay their fair share and stop hiding behind these loopholes. Our congressmen’s pet projects to garner votes must also be curtailed.

If we don’t plug these tax loopholes and curtail spending, our ship of state will flounder and neither party will take the blame. So stop playing the blame game and just fix it – together!

James A. Nelson

Spokane

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