BLAME: Look in mirror, Americans

Lately I have been reading a lot of comments that blame President Obama for making the financial crisis worse. I think we need to take a good long look in the mirror and start putting some of the blame on ourselves. When we went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, we still wanted our tax cuts. We bought houses we couldn’t afford, racked up credit card bills we will never pay off, bought gas guzzling cars.

The point I want to make is that all Americans need to start paying their fair share of taxes so that we can invest our money in education, health care, and our crumbling infrastructure. We need to keep programs that help the poor such as Medicaid, Planned Parenthood and Head Start, not cut them as Governor Willard Romney suggests we do.

INEZ EDWARDS

Post Falls