Letter: Candidates: Don’t run on Bush’s advice

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 | 12:32 p.m.

Saturday's newspapers report that during a Republican retreat, President Bush told an assembled group of lawmakers that they should stress the economy and the "war on terror" during the upcoming election season.

The success in the "war on terror" has to be a figment of the imagination of Bush's propaganda machine. His war in Iraq has only spawned more terrorism, as the killings continue on a daily basis.

As for his claim on the economy, he must be ignoring the reports that the outsourcing of jobs and the closures of plants have affected cities and towns across the nation. One has to ask, as he reports that employment is up, where have those jobs been created - in the Gulf Coast to rebuild the disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?

How do the wages of these new jobs compare with the lost jobs in the manufacturing sector? How do all these people pay to refill their gas tanks, heat their homes and pay their exploding utility bills, let alone put food on the table?

Another article reported that America's negative balance of trade has reached an all-time high. Our national debt has ballooned to an unconscionable amount.

Untold generations will be paying for his follies. If that is what the Republicans choose to run on during the next election, I hope the voters will rise up and throw them all out.

Ray Harbert, Las Vegas