Reference is made to two items in Aug. 21 letter to the editor (Support your president and don’t blame Obama). I remember a lot of Liberals didn’t support President Bush. I also remember the Democrats had a majority in the House and Senate and forced Obamacare on the American people instead of working on jobs. If I recall they shut out the Republicans.

In fact the Senate has not provided a budget in two years and they voted 97 to 0 not to pass the President’s proposed budget. So who is not supporting the President?

Now the President calls for everybody in both houses to come together. They didn’t care when the Democrats had a majority. Until President Obama becomes more pro-business by getting rid of some burdensome regulations and making changes to some of his administration personnel the jobs situation most likely will not improve.

For instance, the chairman of General Electric was appointed by the president to head his commission on job creation. GE is planning to move its 115-year-old division from Wisconsin to Beijing. The company also will invest $2 billion in China and train approximately 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made 5.1 billion last year but paid no taxes. Also this is the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the U.S. I guess the President forgot to tell him in what country he was supposed to be creating jobs.

About the debt ceiling, the president complained about problems in raising the debt higher. This is the same President, when he was a senator, who said that president Bush wasn’t a leader because the ceiling had to be raised. He then voted against raising the debt limit. My how things change.

One other thing, it’s getting tiresome for the president to say he inherited this problem. The issue should be if you didn’t want to try and solve the problem you shouldn’t have run for president. What were you thinking, Mr. President? Every day would be party day? America’s problems come with the territory.

Wilbur Ruhl

Vicksburg