Broken promises in GOP contract

Remember the last time there was a major turnover in the House of Representatives? It was 1992, and the Republicans swept into power with the “Contract for America.” The contract promised a balanced budget. It happened when we had two different parties in the executive and legislative branches. Since then, the so-called “Fiscal Responsibility Act,” which promised middle-class tax cuts, turned out to be a bridge to nowhere, with our economy boosted by record deficits and tax cuts for the rich. Who will pay the interest on the deficit and the balance when it comes due? Read the contract and you'll see that promise after promise was broken. The contract also promised term limits, even by our very own Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd, who has amassed a $2.5 million campaign war chest to keep his career. Think he owes anybody anything? America agreed in 1992 with term limits, so let's hold our legislators to their “contract” and let's return the “people's house” to the people, and tell them they're fired. Helen Utts, Northfield - Atlantic City Press, October 26, 2006