Henry Martinez: Logical choice

Romney votes Obama!

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to free the 47 percent of the American people he describes as big government moochers to take care of themselves.

As recently noted by Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, this "... spending surge (over 700 percent in the last 50 years) ... has increased faster under Republican administrations than Democratic ones.'" And, according to conservative columnist David Brooks, those "... who receive the disproportionate share of government spending ... are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees."

As Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution has noted, the people who have benefited from the entitlements explosion are middle-class workers, more so than the dependent poor."

So it is obvious from Mr. Romney's desire to slow the growth of the entitlement class the only logical choice is to vote for President Obama. Maybe then all those Republicans, seniors, white men, and the middle class will begin to stand on their own two feet.

HENRY MARTINEZ

Atwater