Time to put aside partisan greed

To the editor:
    It is with great trepidation that I am watching the outcome of the mid-term elections. I fear that if the Republicans or, god-forbid, the Tea Party candidates become successful in their attempts to “take back the country,” we are all going to suffer like we haven’t done in 80 years.
    The GOP promised not to work with President Obama after his inauguration, and they kept their promise. Not once did they ever articulate a viable solution to our jobs problem, choosing instead to blame President Obama for every problem America now suffers. Any thinking person knows that we are in the mess we are in because of the two unjust occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the failures of Wall Street and the predatory lending practices that happened during the era of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Now all of our jobs are being outsourced to foreign countries, our middle class is fast becoming the new impoverished class, and still the GOP wants to continue with tax-cuts for the top 2 percent of the wealthiest people in the country, who also control 98 percent of all of the money. If we continue on this path of unlimited “growth and development,” we are, as a species, going to breed ourselves into sub-human misery.
    The GOP represents the same corporations who spilled in oil in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and who continue to strip the earth of its precious resources whether mountain-top mining in W. Virginia or the rainforests of So. America. Without photosynthesis which creates the air we breath, there can be no economy, hence no wealth or development.
    We must put aside our partisan greed, and all work together towards a sustainable future that incorporates the utilization of solar, wind, geo-thermal, bio-mass and other green forms of energy that create jobs for Americans and which doesn’t destroy our ecosystem. We must also, as an evolving species re-define what is wealth and what is development?
Richard Dyer
Monticello