Don't surrender!

Wake up, New Hampshire! Slough off the siren songs of surrender! Our independence and individuality are at stake!

This election is being compared with those of 1964 and 1933. Both marked major steps toward a socialistic society. Both left legacies crushing us today.

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society opened the doors to our national treasury and ushered in the era of entitlement programs. These programs have no requirement to be reviewed annually by Congress and grow each year unchecked, adding to our burgeoning deficit.

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal set upon this nation the European socialist philosophies that put the expanding weight of government on the backs of us all.

Liberal elites and elite wannabes sing the siren songs of surrender that are so soothing to the soul. It will be of little solace, once our society is asleep and our independence and individuality have been sacrificed on socialism's altar, that the middle class will be protected by our government. It will simply cease to be the middle class. It will only have meaning to the Internal Revenue Service as it assigns tax categories and payment levels.

As a member of the middle class, I resent the idea of being managed by some faceless bureaucrat. Politicians and pundits alike are correct in sensing anger in the populace. I am stunned by the seeming success that those who brought on this anger have had in positioning themselves as the champions of correction. Such chutzpah; such hubris!

Save our independence and our individuality before it is too late. Vote Republican!

Bob Ness
Wolfeboro

Support Democrats

I am voting for Barack Obama because a new direction is needed in this country.

George Bush and his Republican Party are for self-interest and the wealthy. The average person has paid for their greed. John McCain is a typical Republican who promises change, which means less change in your pocket. We have had enough of it all. The Republican "Party" is over.

Obama has my vote, and I'm voting for every Democrat. If you care about your future, you must do the same.

George Vreeland Hill
Hillsboro

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