I am so looking forward to the Senate “possibly” passing a health care bill. The cost will be almost a trillion dollars over 10 years and the bill itself weighs in at over 2,000 pages (poor trees). There will be coverage for 94% of the population so too bad those of you in the bottom 6%, I guess they don’t care about you or maybe they don’t need your votes.

But let’s review a couple of important issues. This is supposed to save money. Medicare is almost bankrupt, so they ran that well. The Post Office ran a $3.8 billion deficit last year alone. So the government is two for two. Welfare is a huge scam and millions if not billions are wasted each year. Ah three successes are the charm. When they tell you that you are getting coverage you need to ask who is paying for it.

For those of you who may write in with a response and slept through your high school economics course, the government does not make money. They only spend tax money that came from your pocket. So when this will cost almost $1,000,000,000,000 that is tax money. They promise reducing waste but that was not important until today.

Why didn’t they care about reducing my tax money before now? Why is that important today but not important yesterday?

We cannot afford to add $1,000,000,000,000 to the tax bill. These nuts in Washington should be working on turning the economy around, getting people jobs in the private sector and reducing the tax burden not waste time on this nonsense, tax increasing, feel good bill to win votes and solidify their power.

Johnny Franks
seechatt@yahoo.com

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There are 304,059,074 people legally in the US according to 2008 Census figures. There are 154.7 million Americans working according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics as of 9/02/09. That means that each American would have to come up with an extra $6464 to fund this escapade that will be rammed down our throat. Granted that will be spread out over about 10 years, but who among us actually believes that anything the U.S. government does will come in anywhere near on budget? Not me. So if you already pay a hefty amount for your health car through your employer or individually, you will now have to dig a little deeper to help those that choose not get an education, practice any form of birth control, have a litter of children and make their career some sort of minimum wage job.

How many of you think that the person that chooses to work a minimum wage job will pay the same fair share of that burden as the person that chooses do have something better in life? If you think they will, then put the pipe done fella cause it ain't happenin. That's not how socialized anything works. The person that chooses to be a self sustaining member of our society will have to support those that want nothing more out of life than a discounted meal at their place of employment.

Change for the sake of change isn't always the best policy. It made for cute bumper stickers and sound bytes, didn't it?

Brian Middleton