WEBB CITY, Mo. —
The answer to the question depends on whom you ask. If it’s union workers whom Obama has spent millions on, the answer is yes. If it’s the 8.2 percent out of work and the 46.7 million on food stamps, the thousands that lost their homes, and the people on Social Security drawing $700 to $1,200 a month and paying higher prices for their living expenses, then they will say no they are not better off.
Obama has us $5 trillion more in debt — we are up to $16 trillion — so nobody in this nation can say they are better off when we all owe that debt.
Obama wants to pay $4 trillion in 10 years on the debt. At that rate it would take 40 years to pay it off if we didn’t go in debt more. But how many recessions and depressions would we have in 40 years? Anything can happen.
Being trillions in debt will not help the economy, or the borrowing powers, and we have to borrow 33 percent or more of every dollar we spend, which tells me the debt is going higher. If this nation is to survive, there is going to have to be some deep cuts in our spending, which people are not going to like.
The debt has been piling up ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Both parties are to blame. They both robbed Social Security to make their budgets look good.
Through my 91 years I have watched all this take place. As far as being better off, as long as we owe $16 trillion and no limit in sight, nobody is better off.
Clovis Steele
Webb City
Opinion
Your View: Are you better off?
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Our View: Absent from House
We can’t figure out why two Missouri legislators think they should be elected to the U.S. House when it appears they can’t seem to show up to take care of business in the Missouri House.
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Your View: Terrorism is terrorism
In the May 13 issue of The Joplin Globe there was an Associated Press article concerning the New Orleans shooting.
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Your View: Should we be outraged?
Were there effusive apologies following the lockdown of Boston as most of the continent indulged vicariously in the ongoing manhunt?
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Your View: Terrible injustice
I see this Jasper County nuisance law as a terrible injustice on the rights of the residents of Jasper County.
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Other Views: Conflicts in SEC
Money talks. In the continuing dispute over the all-too-cozy relationship between the people who create and sell financial products and the people who rate their risk, the money says: Shut up and let us do what we want.
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Phill Brooks, columnist: Missouri Senate did what Founding Fathers had in mind
George Washington once described the Senate as being like a saucer in which you pour coffee or tea.
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Our View: Fixing failure
Some 1,200 injured workers will finally get the payments they are owed. In its final week in session, Missouri’s General Assembly, through bipartisan efforts, passed a solution to address the insolvency of the state’s Second Injury Fund.
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Herb B. Kuhn, guest columnist: Delaying Medicaid reform could hurt rural Missouri
The Missouri Legislature missed a rare opportunity in the just-ended session to transform Medicaid and make a real difference in the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of our neighbors. Rural Missouri has the most to lose from the legislature’s failure to act.
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Kevin Wilson, guest columnist: When fear wins out, so do the terrorists
I’m going to make a bold statement that’s sure to draw a lot of comments, but hear me out before reaching for the keyboard to type a rebuttal.
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Marta Mossburg, columnist: Maybe government is tyrannical after all
Less than two weeks ago President Obama stood in front of graduates from The Ohio State University and told them to reject those who warn of government tyranny.
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