Another letter

Okay, I'm at it again. I just wrote another letter to various newspapers and, once again, it sounded so good that I wanted to preserve it for posterity. By the way, my last letter, the one about Palin's selection as VP and McCain pandering to women was published in the Rocky Mountain News yesterday, 9/25/08. Woo Hoo!

Here's what I wrote this time, on McCain's published statement that he was a strong supporter of banking deregulation and wanted to do the same thing to health care:

What's bad for banking is bad for healthcare

In the midst of the biggest financial crisis most of us have seen in our lifetimes, a crisis precipitated by the rampant deregulation of the banking industry, John McCain wants to repeat this unsuccessful strategy with the U.S. healthcare system. He proposed precisely this in the Sept./Oct. 2008 issue of Contingencies Magazine, and stated how much he supported the deregulation of the banking industry. No wonder McCain tried to put his campaign on hold to go work on fixing the financial crisis - he was instrumental in creating that crisis.

McCain, Bush and their cronies have already put our financial futures and security at risk by eliminating much of the oversight of the financial industry. We can't let McCain go on to put our health and healthcare at risk by doing the same thing in the health care sector.

We can't continue to let our elected leaders do the same things over and over, hoping that maybe this time they'll work. We can't afford John McCain and four more years of failed Bush policies presented as McCain's own happy thoughts. We can't afford a Vice Presidential candidate who is woefully unprepared on every single issue she would face as President if the unthinkable happened. We simply can't afford to elect McCain and Palin.

Peace,
AuntieM