There is something bizarre about the number of letters claiming FDR’s stimulus program was not responsible for putting the country back to work. I know not everybody is an economist, or a historian, but still … there is a Flat Earth Society, and people deny the Holocaust.

When I see a fraction of the population that small, make that much noise in such a fantastic rewrite of history, I have to think “orchestrated campaign.”

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., paid attention in history class. He knew what happened during the Great Depression. He argued forcefully that subsequent regulation of the financial market be kept in place so the depression not happen again.

Sadly, Republicans succeeded in getting the Graham-Leach-Bliley Act passed (no oversight of big business, and no rules for finance.) At that time, Dorgan predicted the nation would have the current economic crash.

Aldous Huxley said, “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

The fact that the nation overwhelmingly voted for change shows the majority of people can learn, but not all. Republican leader John Boehner is now calling for a tax cut for the rich, twice as big as what former President Bush dared suggest. Anyone that boot-licking loopy for the rich needs to be recalled.

America is determined to restore its middle class. Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman says time is running out.

Tom Bulger, Avon