President Obama needs to cut off the funding for extremely expensive insurance that the members of the Senate and House enjoy for free. This would be great motivation for the Legislative Branch to pass a national health care plan and give them a lot of money to start it up with. We need more exposure of our Legislative members’ dealings with medical, drug and insurance lobbyists to find out who’s on their payroll. Watch the debates over health care in congress on C-Span and you will see who the lapdogs of these lobbyists are; they are the ones arguing against change.
There are other groups that the lobbyists have to fight against national health care that need more exposure. Mediums of information like the Fox News Channel are part of medical, drug and insurance propaganda machine. Fox’s job is to put fear into the minds of their viewers and they have some of the world’s best lying pundits and fake scripted news stories. Another group influenced by these lobbyists is conservative Christians who have health insurance don’t care about the people without insurance. Is this how we roll in Christendom?
The bottom line is these three industries have been running a Ponzi like scheme on the American people for a long time and have gotten unbelievably rich and powerful. We have the most expensive health care in the world but yet we rank 27th in the world when it comes to quality.
Tim Mahaffey
Middletown
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Letter: Many to blame for health care costs
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
Any recovery for the middle class, in the recovery of our economy, will be led by the recovery of the union attitude in America. Nothing else.
- Letter: Founding fathers were humanists
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Letter: Lutz not representing the working class
I feel bad that Rep. Lutz (R) is sad, because Democrats at the Statehouse are representing the working class people of Indiana. While he is representing big business.
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Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat
Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold War temperatures.
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Letter: Consumer-driven economy will pay off debt
To save America some money — by acclimation of course — let’s not have a presidential election in 2012. We already have a good president who will do his best to kill all Republican bills (DOA) and, consequently, create more good-paying jobs in the $30 per hour range.
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Letter: Gingrich cashes in on political amnesia
Rasmussen says that Romney has flattened nationally. Why?
Two reasons seem to tell the tale. Gingrich has shown that he will fight, and Romney is a Mormon, believed to be a “cult” by a majority of evangelicals. -
Letter: Hiring Winkler not wise spending
As a taxpayer I want to know that my taxes are being spent wisely. Hiring Greg Winkler at a salary of $126,000 is not wise spending.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
