Comments on: Dear Editor: Opinion of CD1 Representative https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-opinion-by-debbie-dahma/ Local News From All Points of View Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: E. Rowland https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-opinion-by-debbie-dahma/comment-page-1/#comment-5365 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:19:19 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=7045#comment-5365 I’d like to remind Debbie that the nation was enjoying a budget surplus in 2000, when the Bush administration took over. Then the national debt ballooned through the fall of 2008, when the country had a precipitous economic meltdown. Two wars, tax cuts to the rich, an attitude of “anything goes” in the banking sector and fraudulent mortgage rates, led to Bush’s first tarp bailout of $700 billion under Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson. Ann Kirkpatrick was NOT in office. Our congressional representataive was Rick Renzi.

The new administration assumed office in January 2009 and began to put in place solutions that would stem the hemorrhaging national budget. A break down of the current magnitude cannot be cured in 20 months. It cannot be cured with deviseness and acrimony. If we truly want our nation to succeed, we all need to cooperate and work together to contribute to the reconstruction of our economic recovery.

E. Rowland

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