Published: August 20, 2009 09:59 pm      

LETTERS: Aug. 21, 2009

Keep the pressure on regarding health care



I want to commend the two gentlemen, Mr. Tom Virgin, of Newburg, and Mr. Floyd Coates, of Scottsburg, for their outstanding submissions in the Thursday, Aug. 13, Evening News.

Both letters could not be expressed better. Our elected officials, not only in Indiana, but elsewhere, cannot face the public after they are elected and tell the truth. Once they are elected, the promises they make while campaigning are soon forgotten.

They forget who elected them. How quickly they become brainwashed by the very few high-up leftists who want to control our God-fearing and free country. Isn’t it amazing how a few shillings (dollars) can corrupt such brilliant minds of our elected officials?

The health bill contains 1,017 pages, as Mr. Coates noted and the secretary’s name appears 1,123 times in the bill. Not one elected official have I heard say he or she has completely read the bill. Not one can stand up and answer a question truthfully when asked about its contents.

Are we to believe that the secretary will dictate what health care we receive? Will the secretary be the scapegoat when the individual can’t get the care they need?

I urge the public to please take Mr. Coates’ advice. Read this house bill at govtract.us/contress/billtext.xpd?bill-h111-3200. It’s more than our elected officials have done.

Once you have read the bill, there’s no doubt you will understand why citizens are protesting at town meetings. You will know why our elected officials are avoiding our questions, and please understand our elected officials do not have to join this proposed health plan.

They are exempt, as they are from the Social Security retirement plan which, without doubt, is failing because it, too, is government controlled.

— Claude Simpson, Jeffersonville



An open letter to Baron Hill



Dear Rep. Baron Hill, it is ironic that the Blue Dog Democrats supposedly in opposition to financial drain have consistently supported the wars in Iraq (9/11, eh?) and Afghanistan. Is that crazy or what?

If you bomb my home or maim or kill my family, mark my word, I will become your sworn enemy. Why do you continue to vote to pour billions of dollars into counterproductive wars?

I expect my reps in Washington have a degree of knowledge about world affairs. Have you watched Christine Amanpour’s recent two-hour PBS special on life in Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip? Have you spent time, more than one or two days, outside the Americas? Have you studies the school systems of the many countries that educate far better than we do? Have you spent a week in a war-torn country? Have you examined the health care systems of the 36 countries that offer better at a far lower price?

You talked a good line about health care for all when you were trying to get elected. So, why are you not actively promoting public health care? Didn’t the majority of us vote for you and President Obama for this very reason?

Your Blue Dog Democrats are blocking progress. You are obstructing long overdue and much needed single payer health care due to what — ignorance of its success in other developed countries, a power play against mainstream Democrats in Congress, or an unwillingness to forgo mega-dollars in donations from the health insurance industry?

Get with the program — health care and the rest of it.

— Betty Ogden, Jeffersonville