To the editor:

It is official! The Congressional Budget Office says we will have a $1 trillion deficit for the next 10 years. Economists say that when a country has a debt of 60 percent of GDP, it’s in trouble. The CBO has further amended its prediction that the U.S.’s debt will reach the critical 60 percent of GDP in 2023. It now says it will reach the 60 percent level in 2010.

Are you listening, folks? When Barack Obama took office, the deficit was $454 billion. Thanks to his bills, the deficit is $1.3 trillion for 2009. You cannot blame George W. Bush for this. Obama voted for the spending when he was in the Senate and then signed the bills into law as president.

One has to wonder if he is trying to wreck the U.S. economy in order to install his socialist agenda. It really isn’t hard to do. All it takes are leaders like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and followers like Tom Perriello who vote right down the party line with no regard for the wishes and well being of the Fifth District. Unlike Bank of America or General Motors, we are not too big to fail, and there is no one to bail us out but ourselves.

On June 8, please go to the polls, vote for Robert Hurt, a true conservative, and help him defeat Tom Perriello in November. America and the Fifth District are counting on you to help stop the madness in Washington.

I thank you, Robert Hurt thanks you, your children thank you and your grandchildren will thank you.

TOM WARREN

Danville