NATIONAL BUDGET Reader wants debt ceiling raised

The 2010 election may have given some of you a "mandate for change." The change you have been striving for is not the change envisioned by most voters. 

1. Voters wanted jobs through development of work programs, and to put our "economic future" on track with "new kinds of jobs for the future of America." So, they voted for more GM-type supports. 

2. Voters wanted a return to the days before their retirement and investment funds took a nose-dive toward zero. So, they voted for more financial regulations. 

3. They wanted an end to corrupt financial services that have put so many families into "foreclosed-upon homelessness." So, they voted for more banking regulatory controls. 

4. They wanted a fair playing field for all tax-payers, and especially, corporations, that get their money from the workers. So, they voted for pain and tax reform for everyone. 

5. They wanted affordable, competent, health care for their families, that provides for all their needs without hassle, without discrimination in finances, creed, color or nationality. So, they voted for health care reform regulations, not cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. 

6. They want an end to the bickering and divisiveness among their elected officials, or they will vote to bring back the common sense and working environment expected in the "House and Senate of the people."

This current bickering over the debt ceiling, and the "hostage-holding" of the economy does not address any of the above listed concerns of voters. Refusing to raise the debt-ceiling, based on party ideology-lines and politics for the 2012 election, only jeopardizes our economy even more. Voters already jobless, homeless, recovering from financial losses will not be pleased if the political posturing of Congress causes another financial downturn and further jeopardizes our economy and pocketbooks.

Carol Rae

Moses Lake