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The Republican Plan for America
Published: September 28, 2010
To the Editor:
Re “The G.O.P.'s {lsquo}Pledge' ” (editorial, Sept. 26): What’s happened to the Republicans? Where is the party of George W. Romney, Dwight D. Eisenhower and a legion of others with whom we might not have always agreed but who cared about the future of the United States, not just about getting Republicans elected? Remember the Interstate highway system, a huge federal investment in infrastructure that President Eisenhower pioneered?
Where is a real plan for job growth in the “Pledge to America,” not just platitudes about smaller government and less regulation? Where is the legislation to encourage manufacturing in the United States? Where is a health plan that might indeed be better than the current one that actually addresses health coverage for millions with no insurance?
Where is the investment in research and development that up-and-coming economies have used for their growth? Where is the legislation to encourage businesses to think long term, not just for this quarter?
We need an opposition party with a plan to help the country, to generate wealth for the majority, not just to continue to enrich the obscenely wealthy. And we need it soon.
John Schreiber
Sudbury, Mass., Sept. 26, 2010
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To the Editor:
A picture is worth a thousand words.
“A Pledge to America” is full of photographs. In the foreground of those photographs I count 60 white men and 4 white women. In the backgrounds, many more white men and some white women are discernible. There are virtually no nonwhites.
Where are the Asians, African-Americans and other racial and ethnic groups? Is this America? Did the public relations consultant simply forget to include nonwhites in this document, or does the G.O.P. intentionally exclude nonwhites from its vision of America?
Thank you, G.O.P. leadership. You have given us a most telling proposal upon which to consider our votes.
Mark LeDoux
Lahaina, Hawaii, Sept. 26, 2010
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/opinion/l29politics.html?_r=1&hpw
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