On voting Republican

What will these guys use for a platform when Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi kick the bucket? Come on, French. Do your supporters really need this kind of motivation? “Hollywood Hillary” and your opponent’s photo on a nonexistent Variety magazine cover?

Filling Congress with Republicans will mean one thing, and we know it. The swan song to Social Security and Medicare. It’s Paul Ryan’s dream.

If you are really a member of the middle class in America today, there’s only two reasons for you to vote Republican. The first is you believe that the economy is the result of the election of Donald Trump and the tax cut just passed by Congress. Even though it will add $1.9 trillion to the national debt by 2020. Not to mention the scary inflation that will result from the tariff situation. The second is you want to cram as many conservatives as possible on the Supreme Court. Legitimate reasons.

But I want to remind you that these guys apparently think the average salary for middle-class Americans is a quarter of a million a year. None of them will ever have to worry about their retirement, and if they catch a little cold, they hop over to the Mayo for a checkup. How about you? I know what you do. You go to work and you ride it out.

Republicans hate these two programs, so they lump them in with their “welfare entitlement” figures. These are not entitlement programs. It’s your money that you have paid in for 40 years working your behind off. Protecting Medicare and Social Security to a Republican means delaying your retirement to age 72 and privatizing with insurance companies.

Wow, wouldn’t that be profitable? And you know how sweet and understanding those insurance guys are.

Which brings me to another question: Where does one get the money to run 20 ads a day, seven days a week on a dozen major networks? From all of those $150 individual donations? Yeah, right. WADE GREEN Camden