I have my friends Loretta and Skip who sent their son Brody off to WSU and finally my friends Mary and Tom who just took their son John down to University of Oregon last week! Congratulations John!
I love this picture that Mary sent me taken of her and John on a trip to Cabo. Very sweet!
Mary's husband Tom recently had a letter to the editor published in the Seattle paper that I wanted to pass along also. Tom and I have very similar political opinions! Enjoy!
U.S. economy -
Big deficit for next president
The U.S. Treasury Department has had to raise more than $200 billion through the sale of bonds in just the last week alone, according to The New York Times. It appears certain that Congress and the Treasury Department will have to come up with hundreds of billions more to try and contain the losses — just what the country needs.
After seven years of President Bush's stewardship of the economy, how can we possibly afford it? We'll just have to add it on to all the other woes this administration has brought us.
Maybe there'll be some kind of maneuver that puts the expenditures "off budget" in the same way a good part of our war costs are. But the debt will be real, and billions in interest payments on the deficit, of course, increases just as dramatically as the deficit itself.
President Bush will likely try some variation of "There's plenty of blame to go around — Republicans and Democrats." Sorry, George, the buck stops at the office of president. You've had the reins for more than seven years — six of them with Republican majorities in Congress — and the economy you'll leave your successor will be in tatters, burdened by a national debt that even the most pessimistic could not have imagined when you took office.
The failures of this administration are breathtaking. Jan. 20 can't come soon enough.
— Tom Taylor, Seattle
Great job Tom - keep the letter's flowing! Mary, I know you are off to Italy - send me a postcard so I can blog it!
Later -
Jim
That letter was beautifully written. Well done!
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