How soon does everyone forget about what our history tells us.

After Ronald Reagan was president, we had to bail out the savings-and-loan companies, and after George Bush was president, we had to bail out the banks, AIG and General Motors. George Bush also started a war, but the Bush tax cuts still were in place and still are till the end of this year.

Our nation lost $700 billion during that time.

Is that what we want to go back to with all the campaign money being spent to get the Republicans and tea party people into office? How many people will they be beholden too, if elected?

The recession was over in June, and the stock market is coming back. Let’s vote to keep going forward and keep our country on the right track.

We do not need the government to be shut down, like Newt Gingrich did when Bill Clinton was president, and keep giving the richest people tax cuts again.

Vote for Tim Walz for U.S. House, Mark Dayton for governor, Dan Sparks for Minnesota Senate and Robin Brown for Minnesota House. They are all working to make America and Minnesota great.

Roselyn M. Anderson

assistant chairwoman

Freeborn County DFL Party

Albert Lea