Letter: Ensign protects Nevadans’ best interests

Monday, Aug. 6, 2007 | 7:09 a.m.

Th anks to U.S. Sen. John Ensign for sticking to his core principles and not voting like the liberal senators who want to continue the runaway social programs that our founding fathers did not intend for the U.S. Constitution to do.

It's only because of the Bush tax cuts and great senators such as Ensign that help put the brakes on this spending spree that most of the Democrats would like to continue. Phil Ventura, in his Aug. 3 letter, worries that the poor children will not get proper health care. Well, talk to any medical professional and ask them the last time an individual was turned away from getting health care. Ever analyze your health care bill? A portion of that bill goes to the uninsured.

What are you people thinking? Let the federal government run health care, so it can foul that up, too? My aunt and uncle live in Canada, just above Vermont. Guess where they and their family come for health care? Let private industry run health care, that's the answer.

Thanks also to Gov. Jim Gibbons for holding the line on "no new taxes." My wife and I moved to this great state of Nevada in August 2006, from the Northeast, and I was sick and tired of the Democrats' runaway spending, and we are so grateful that we finally have a governor, a U.S. senator (Ensign) and Congressmen Jon Porter and Dean Heller, along with our state senators who are men of their word. My father had a saying, "If you keep giving away the ranch, sooner or later you got no more ranch."

Thank you, gentlemen, for sticking to your guns.

Robert B. Sulliman Jr., Henderson