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Eliminate entitlements for the rich

By Illie Csorba

Every time I hear House Speaker John Boehner speak of our nation’s need to eliminate our debt-driving social entitlements, my thoughts go not to our poor but to the class of people Mitt Romney and the GOP Congress so strongly support: the rich.

I am outraged that Republican politicians continue to try to balance the cost of the Bush-era wars and mortgage meltdown on the backs of the middle class.

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 Csorba, of Salem, is an economist and has worked with and consulted for Fortune companies.

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