The ruination of U.S. as we know it

Congratulations, everyone now owes the government $40,000-50,000 to pay for Obama’s federal budget. So, how’s all that “hope” and “change” working for ya?

The Democrat Congress’ vote for the federal budget betrayed every citizen of the U.S.A. and their descendants. They’ve increased spending and debt to unconscionable and ruinous proportions.

The actions of the Democrat Congress, Obama, and his administration have taken our country towards total socialism/slavery. Their nationalization of financial institutions, American businesses, and health care spells ruin for the U.S.A.

This Democrat government is never accountable for their own wrong-headed actions; they blame others. They create and encourage class hatred. They refuse to listen to those who don’t want liberty and freedom taken.

Americans need jobs now that’ll get us out of this economic chaos. This country was built by independent people who didn’t want government to control their lives. It was not built by gimmee, whiney, I-am-a-victim slobs created and encouraged by Democrats’ nanny nation politics and policies. They take away incentive from people; they don’t give incentive. Government can’t spend its way to prosperity.

They’re taking freedom from Americans by ruining our free-economy, representative democracy and turning it into a socialist/slave world state. We are no longer the United States of America with government of the people, by the people, for the people. We’re now Obama’s Socialist United States of the World with a Declaration of Dependence — from the people to the government. Their Day of Dependence is April 2, the day they and Obama ruined us.

Patricia L. Mattison

Lynnwood

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