Your Opinion: Untruths in letter

Dear Editor:

Normally I avoid using the words liar in responding to letters I read in your paper but the letter by Linda Wenzlick was just too much.

To begin she stated that "the national debt is being reduced under his (Obama) administration faster than any president in recent history." This is blatantly false and for lack of any other adverb, a lie. The deficit ending in 2013 was $16.7 trillion. At the end of fiscal year 2014 it is $17.8 trillion. At the end of 2007 it was $9 trillion and that included Katrina clean-up and the Iraq war. These are the facts, not my opinion.

Does she think reducing the work week to 30 hours to be full time helped create jobs? This was a huge job killer and resulted in hours being reduced to avoid the forced health care requirement for full time employees.

Health care is an important issue for both Republicans and Democrats but forcing it upon businesses and a government takeover of the insurance industry is not the answer. There are mechanisms in place already to handle health care that can and should be tweaked. But the Affordable Health Care, as the architect Gruber explained, is not affordable.

Then Wenzlick rants on about "dirty oil." Without oil this country will stop in its tracks. The wheels of western civilization run on oil. Oil is power, period, no pun intended. Argue if you will the number of jobs that will be created but the bottom line jobs will be created. And, if for whatever reason the free world should need this energy source, the good old U.S.A. will have access to it. We have pipe lines running all over this country. This is not a new technology. Only Obama, people ignorant of the facts and radical environmentalist have a problem with the Keystone pipe line.

So, in conclusion, the only promise that Obama has kept is to put coal out of business, and he is just about to get that done. Please let me know how to have power when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine.