LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Voters remember: GOP wants to cut benefits

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By John Neill

To The Editor:

Voters should be less worried about the economic outlook. The inflation rate last year may have been 8.3%, but wages rose by 8.2%, driven in part by the low employment rate of 3.7%.

There are 1.7 jobs available for every unemployed person. Older voters got an 8.7% increase in their monthly benefits. They should remember Republicans are talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.

John Neill

San Diego

Author

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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