Pork-filled potholes aren’t the answer

Spinmeisters have clogged the airways with negative ads, held our phones hostage with computer generated phone calls, scared us out of putting political signs in our yards and jammed our mailboxes with more paper filling our recycle bins. Yet, they fail to tell us what they intend to do or more importantly – how they are going to do it.

They can tell me that they’re going to bring jobs to Washington, help every student graduate from high school or an alternative school and improve our horrendous traffic problems but when it’s all said and done they haven’t told me how they’re going to accomplish any of these goals.

Can they keep property taxes from driving our senior citizens out of their homes? Can you help with their high cost of health care? Can you explain why our hard working citizens have to decide whether they’re going to eat or drive to Canada to buy prescriptions? Can you tell us why our veterans, who fought to protect us, are not getting the health care they deserve and were promised?

But wait – we have two huge sports stadiums in Seattle, a monorail going nowhere because no one can give us a solid plan without spin. Plans to establish alternative places to lose money with electronic games, a NASCAR racetrack in Snohomish County that will bring more congestion to an already congested freeway – my gosh where does it end? This is just pork filling potholes but not good for our economy in the long run.

Please give us credit for being able to think for ourselves without the scare tactics. There are factions in the world that want to do us harm and we have to be aware and prepared but we have to be just as vigilant by making informed decisions in the voting booth at home and not backing down. Cut the bull and just give us the facts.

Carol Barkley

Marysville

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