To the editor:
I was really glad to learn recently that over half of the American people are in favor of a public option as regards Health Care Reform. It stands in sharp contrast to the Republican Greed Machines that is constantly grinding the middle and lower income people into sub-human misery. I am positive that at least one of the Religious Right (wrong) will probably say that if someone is poor that it is God’s will. It never ceases to amaze me the hypocrisy that incessantly flows from the so-called conservative GOP. On the one hand they will march on Washington en masse to protest legislation that will protect the health and safety of fellow human beings, citing unnecessary budget deficits; but when Bush was asking for billions of dollars with which to destroy innocent civilians, pregnant women and young children in Iraq and Afghanistan, where was the outcry then?
And they call the Democrats the “tax and spend” party, that’s as laughable as calling Republicans “conservative.”
And don’t be fooled by the pundits and the talking heads in the media who would have you believe that Americans don’t want a Public Option. This is just not the case, from every poll I’ve seen, most Americans are in favor of some form of public option, even though many on the Right are screaming “entitlement”! Balderdash!
What is Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security if not a mutually agreed upon system of reimbursement that you have paid into all of your working life? Try taking away any one of these three things from Republicans and wait for the Banshee howl!
The problem is that many in the GOP are heavily indebted to their campaign contributors such as Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Insurance. These three giants dole out billions to Congress to make sure that their interests are served and not the people’s.
Come on America, wake up! These are the same people who told you Saddam was responsible for 9-11, that Saddam had yellow-cake uranium, that a plane hit the Pentagon and we don’t torture.
Don’t be fooled again, support President Obama in his efforts to bring about real change, they also said that a black man would never be in the White House … guess what?
Monticello
