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Letter: President is not in tune with the economy’s needs

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004 | 8:32 a.m.

The new economic numbers just out demonstrate that President Bush is a one-song singing cowboy who keeps playing the same old music in a very flat key of G, as in greed. His only idea is to sing tax cuts for the wealthy (including himself), while the rest of us suffer with higher taxes, runaway health costs, unaffordable education and soaring energy prices.

It's the same old trickle-down economics Republicans have used for decades. It has made the rich richer and the rest of us poorer. And the country has been left with debilitating national deficits that suck the life out of Social Security, Medicare and ultimately our economy.

The president has been tone-deaf to the plight of record numbers of jobs shipped overseas and record trade deficits. Four more years of his broken record, and we will be so far in the hole there won't be a song left for any of us to sing.

SHERMAN RATTNER

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