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StumbleLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Our representatives are employed by us
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
To my fellow citizens who are afraid of a government takeover of health care:
Remember, when we vote and elect those we send to Washington, we become their employers. The elected officials become the employees.
We pay, with our taxes, the officials’ salaries, benefits and perks that they enjoy. They are supposed to take care of our needs.
Instead, they insist we use private insurance companies to run our health care, allowing the insurance companies to make the big bucks off of us while our representatives are off the hook when it comes to taking care of our health care needs.
Meanwhile, some of the same people who complain about the cost of having government-run health care don’t seem to care or complain about the cost of war.
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"Meanwhile, some of the same people who complain about the cost of having government-run health care don't seem to care or complain about the cost of war."
So tell Obama to bring the Troops home instead of adding another 30 to 40k.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
We could get back all that left over jobless stimulus money
Government healthcare control 50% of the market now and you want to double down (100%) with a failed medicare program.
We have a unfunded liability of $40 Trillion in Medicare So we should make it $80 Trillion
Our kids Thank You for nothing
Future said...
"So tell Obama to bring the Troops home instead of adding another 30 to 40k."
...Future, you're one of my favorite posters. Please read this article by Pat Buchanan about Afghanistan...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?i...
Most Americans do not want government run health care. Everything the government does is inferior.
The wailer rants:
"Instead, they insist we use private insurance companies to run our health care..."
I got it... How about a government ran automobile insurance company.
If that makes you shutter down to your boots, that is how government ran health care will work.
If we are staying in Afghanistan then give the General everything he asks for. If we are not going to provide him the tools and people he needs, the get every soldier out of the country today.
To put men in a war setting and then leave them vulnerable by playing politics with their lives is criminal.
One way or the other. No half measures, the get people killed unnecessarily.
Hey Camille: Maybe you forgot that we had to start a war with the most powerful country in the world at the time ENGLAND just to gain are own freedom. Without fighting wars are country would have fallen along time ago. THE COST OF WAR IN BLOOD AND MONEY IS THE PRICE WE PAY TO BE FREE.
We fought a war with England for freedom? I always though we got our freedom from the bureaucrats and social workers.
Sometimes I think we should have stayed under England's control and had a Parliament type government...
That way if the head duck lies, the elected politicians can holler "You Lie" without being placed on a public whipping post.
Ms. Barone -- you got this one right on. I have to wonder how many of the absolutist posters here have ever seriously participated in what it takes for a law to happen or not happen. Or even communicated with their elected representatives, proposed a solution along with the complaint, then stayed with them completely through the process of changing law. I have.
"Everything the government does is inferior."
jlb101 -- so sad but so true, and We the People can't seem to learn from the lessons history gives us. Let's start with the sanitized history taught in our public schools -- like Lincoln was a great president when he was really an out-of-control tyrant -- and the filtered version of national news we get from the popular media.
Check out http://www.john-mill.com/ -- somewhere in there is his paper on representative government where he observes just what you said, that when government does anything we should be doing ourselves, it does it expensively and with a heavy hand.
The wailer writes that our representatives are employed by us.
Yes she is right... Until she says:
"Instead, they insist we use private insurance companies to run our health care..." Bla, Bla, Bla.
Our elected officials are responsible to consider the opinions of ALL of us, not a special group. They weigh those would want a government take over of the health system and those who don't want a government ran health care system. They check polls, letters, phone calls, etc. for and against a proposed bill.
So you, Camille Barone, do not personally own you elected official. You have to share him/her with the rest of us and we all have views and opinions that we would like to have considered. Not just yours!!!
jlb101:
You are the minority. Don't tell us what
most Americans want. 70% of Americans want
health care reform. We tossed the party of
NO out of office. YOUR DONE.
Rasmussen Reports: Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.
Rasmussen is a Republican. Only right-wing
people use his polls.
70% WANT REFORM.
Rasmussen Reports: Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.