GOP leaders obstruct progress” the letter to the editor headline read (Dec. 15). Actually, I would have thought the editor would have known better than to have used this headline not once but twice.
Both chambers of Congress are dominated by a “super majority” of Democrats.
Republican leaders could not obstruct any legislation in Congress if they wanted to. Mr.
Thurman Metcalf should know this as well.
If Mr. Metcalf is grateful for the progressive secularists that control Congress and the White House - so be it. Please do not reward them with rhetorical poppycock such as, “intellect, compassion and problem-solving skills” - that is disingenuous and especially since the opposite is true and has beenfor over a century.
Health care is a nonparty issue. Destroying the health care of 81 percent of the population - who like their health care as is, just because they can do it - is pure evil. Sixty-one percent of American citizens are against it now.
Incidentally, just because President Obama says we have a serious health care problem does not make it a serious healthcare problem. His idea of health care is phony and misleading if he believes the American citizen should pick up the tab for noncitizens, union members and Native Americans. He is not a humanitarian, he is a socialist.
We are heading toward a Marxist country.
The biggest problems with health care have been ignored: insurance companies, attorneys,, pharmaceutical providers and even the people themselves.
Our society has gone from a love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself to a “me” society.
WANDA F. COOPER
Bella Vista A BUSINESS OWNER FOR REFORM
Iam a small business owner
with three employees. I feel that health care is a public good, rather than a private good, and that as a nation, the U.S. will be better, stronger, and have a higher standard of living if basic health care is a public service.
STEVE GREEN
West Fork
Opinion, Pages 5 on 12/22/2009