I had to read John Culleton's letter "The GOP's 2012 election strategy: Wreck the economy" (June 9) several times to be sure it said what I thought it did. The biased inaccuracies were so overwhelming that the first question in my mind was: How in the world does The Sun chose the letters that appear in the Readers Response section?

The thought process used to put that letter together left me in shock. Mr. Culleton's statement that the Bush tax cuts didn't stimulate the economy is just not true. If he had said that Republican overspending and two costly wars had led to deficits, I would agree. But money poured into the treasury at record levels.

Mr. Culleton's assertion that federal spending is small as a percentage of GDP is offset by the fact that the deficit has doubled in the past two years — a historic event.

Also, his argument that cuts in federal spending lead to cuts in federal and state jobs — and thus higher unemployment, which hurts the economy — shows a real lack of critical thinking.

A government employee and unemployed government worker are both a drain on the economy. The only difference is that the unemployed workers are less of a drain because they take less money out of the economy.

Mr. Culleton's statement that "Republicans really want a double dip recession so that they can take over the government ... that is why they refuse to put taxes back to a reasonable level, refuse to regulate the excesses of the oil speculators that have driven up gas prices, etc.," is just nonsense.

The Democrats won the 2006 midterm election halfway through George Bush's second term, and they controlled both houses of Congress until last year. There was plenty of time for them to roll back the Bush tax cuts and plenty of time for them to "regulate the excesses of the oil speculators." They failed to do either.

Likewise, President Obama had the time and the tools to correct the situation, but he has only succeeded in making a bad economy even worse. Mr. Obama had an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for two years — and we are in deep trouble because of it.

Carlton Gibbs, Baltimore