Over the past two weeks, I’ve noticed people sending in letters about how things have gotten worse for them since the Bush presidency. I feel the letters were nonspecific. I would like to share how my family and I are better off.

My husband lost his job to Mexico. He was then eligible for retraining and he has now doubled his income. Over the past four years, we have bought our own home. Interest rates have been phenomenally low and home ownership is at an all time high in the U.S. and I believe it. My siblings are financially better off. We have jobs in the service sector and it is exploding.

I’ve seen recently in the Sun Journal that the unemployment rate in the Lewiston-Auburn area is at a record low. Just drive down Lisbon Street and tell me things aren’t happening here. We have a beautiful Gateway, a professional sports team, the Hilton conference center. Northeast Bank is growing.

My grandparents came here from Canada, non-English speaking immigrants, and they kicked butt.

We are Americans. We are the world’s innovators. The automobile, electricity, the telephone, the Internet, the ice cream cone, peanut butter, etc.

Let the low-skilled jobs go overseas, then I can get more for my buck here. It gives us greater purchasing power and the opportunity to educate ourselves.

When Clinton left office, we had less purchasing power than we do now.

Kathleen Croyle, Lewiston

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