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We need real change in this country

To the Editor:

Are you an emotional voter letting the media and others tell you how to vote? Or an intelligent voter capable of looking beyond all the hype from both nominees and others and choosing the one whose common sense proposals make the most  logic to improve the sluggish economy which will motivate the private sector to create jobs for the millions of our fellow Americans desperately  looking  for work to feed their families. 

This is not a sporting contest; it is serious business. Perhaps it takes an outsider who owes no allegiance to either political party or lobbyists except the American people to try to straighten our current mess out. We have  some people working two separate 29-hour jobs because their employers cannot afford to pay the increased insurance costs. 

Last year  the CBO says more jobs failed and went out of business than were created. Are you going to be part of the problem or part of the solution?  Both political parties and most of the media have demonstrated they are interested only in their own interests. Look yourself in the mirror and ask do you really care about our country or just your party and your ego. We need real change not change like happened over the last 7.5 years.

Jack Hogan

Franklin

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