Why would you even consider voting this year for the same bunch of Republicans that have screwed up for the last eight years?

And, don’t be fooled — the same people who helped put George W. Bush in office are working for McCain right now. He’s one of those Republicans who pretends to be a “maverick,” an agent for change. He knows who holds all the cards and is accepting help from the very people who tried to destroy him in 2000.

What have these crooks given you over the years? They gave you inadequate protection on Sept. 11, 2001, despite having intelligence that told them something big was about to go down.

They gave you no information on where the anthrax in the envelopes was coming from until this year. And, it came from our own military labs.

They gave you the ability to relinquish your fundamental constitutional rights, so you could pretend you were safer.

They gave you the right to sign up for military service because there were fewer and fewer American jobs available.

Then they gave you the right to come home physically and mentally messed up and unable to receive adequate health care from the VA.

They gave you the right to buy toys and dog food that weren’t adequately inspected for poisons.

They gave you the right to easily buy homes at exorbitant prices, and then watch the value decline to less than what you paid.

They would never raise your taxes. But, they would waste much of the taxes you do pay on corrupt contractors, both here and in Iraq.

They have allowed our bridges to fall and our libraries to close. The states don’t have enough money to fix them.

However, they have given us the right to borrow so much money from the Chinese that, someday, we’ll probably have to turn the whole country over to them when we can’t pay the money back. (Start learning Chinese now.) Have I missed anything? I’m sure you can think of some things that aren’t right with this country, too.

In November, tell them you are not as stupid as they think you are and vote for anyone but McCain.

Louise Pool

Bandon