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About those jobs?

I found it interesting that in Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ recent debate she said that letting the Bush tax cuts expire would be raising taxes on the job creators and that would discourage job growth.

Now unless I’ve missed something in the last eight years, the top 2 percent of the wealthy (the job creators) have enjoyed big tax breaks and unemployment went up. It seems to me that’s the same argument that Bush used about the unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy.

And like Dino Rossi blaming Patty Murray for the bailout of the banking industry, again if my memory serves me, that was George Bush’s idea and supported by almost all of the Republicans.

Remember Bush. If we don’t give them the money we’ll have a disastrous financial collapse and another depression.

As much as it pains me to remind folks of the $4.50 a gallon for gas when there was no shortage of petroleum, Bush and his Republican administration looked the other way while we got ripped off.

Don’t suppose the tax cuts just made the wealthy richer and the poor poorer and didn’t create any jobs. Oh no, say it isn’t so.

Mike Miles

Mead

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