Vote for Mitt, destroy middle class

If you’re thinking about voting for Mitt Romney because you hate Barack Obama, remember that you’ll really return to the George Bush policies that were a huge disaster. A vote for Romney will result in military intervention in Iran instead of Iraq, another tax break for the richest 1 percent, immigrants asked to “self-deport,” a voucher instead of traditional Medicare coverage, attempt to privatize Social Security and invest it in Wall Street, more drilling for oil instead of investing in alternative sources of energy, repeal of Obamacare and return to the mercy of big insurance companies, eliminate financial regulation to risk another economic meltdown caused by Wall Street barons/hedge fund managers/unscrupulous mortgage lenders, additional layoffs for teachers and first-responders, more crumbling infrastructure and a larger deficit.

I could go on, but if you’ve been listening to the GOP candidates, it is clear that Mitt Romney will destroy the middle class in an effort to return to the same Republican policies that led to the Great Recession in 2008. Do you really believe a superrich flip-flopper who has no core beliefs and hides millions in the Caymans will be concerned about the average American instead of his Wall Street buddies?

Do you really want to go back to Bush and the policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest us?

Tom Minnerick

Elgin