To the Editor:

Now we know what President Obama meant in his 2008 campaign promise of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Since Obama took office, his policies have left us with:

-$5.4 trillion added to the national debt (more than the first 41 presidents combined)

-A national deficit that’s doubled

-15 million more citizens on food stamps

-$2,500/year increase in health insurance premiums

-Median household income down $4,300

-23 million Americans looking for work

-3.5 million more women in poverty

-Nationalized healthcare at a projected first decade cost of over $2.6 trillion

-Etc.

Obama has led us to a fiscal and unemployment cliff, and now he plans to move us forward.

Obama has weakened our Constitution, the rule of law, and our representative government by seizing power that doesn’t belong to him. He has unilaterally:

-Nationalized the student loans program

-Waived welfare-to-work requirements

-Stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act

-Granted waivers to No Child Left Behind and Obamacare

-Prevented deportation of certain illegal aliens

-Violated our First Amendment with his “contraceptive mandate”

Our government was framed precisely to avoid one-man-rule. How far would Obama go if reelection is no longer a concern?

Do we want to leave our children strapped with debt and a post-Constitutional government? If not, please join me in voting for Mitt Romney.

Mitt, with his business background and belief in our Constitution’s bounds, will steer our nation back towards prosperity and Constitutionalism. He’ll repeal Obamacare before its 13,000+ pages of onerous regulations will be enforced by thousands of new IRS agents.

It’s equally important to vote for Linda McMahon for Senate, and Andrew Roraback (District 5) or Steve Obsitnik (District 4) for Congress. All have promised to vote for Obamacare’s repeal.

Cathy Reiss

Obtuse Road, Newtown                                                October 24, 2012