And if this thing passes, are you going to lay awake at night worrying about the elderly who need hip or knee or some other surgery, or lacks the energy to go and do because they neeed a pacemaker but won’t be able to get it because a government bean counter considers them to be not worth the cost and would rather spend money on a younger person, leaving the elderly to languish in suffering? The young people you lay awake worrying about are not suffering and their medical needs are not as pressing as the elderly’s medical requirements who you apparently don’t care about. The elderly, which may be you in the not too distant future based on your picture, are the ones who will suffer if your wish for government run health care passes. Obama has said so when he said he believed that a woman’s mother should be given pain medication and should be denied a pacemaker. It’s obvious Obama and the Democrats, and Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s top health care adviser, approve of withholding care to the elderly.

Maybe if the government would stop stealing people’s money for a bureaucrat spend on a pet pork project or give to someone else, they would have more money to spend on themselves and their needs. And if the government didn’t steal a third of the money companies earn for more government-serving/self-serving programs programs, and end the companies have more money to grow. Barney Frank believes companies exist only to provide him money to steal and give to someone else.

Kent, you have a fundamentally flawed view on how this government was designed by the founders of the country. This country’s government was designed by the founders to be different than all the other countries in that the government only takes care of basic things like defense and light interstate regulation, just enough to keep it organized, and to basically allow total freedom for the people to carry on their lives as they saw fit, as the Constitution states it:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”

“General welfare”, not take care of every little problem in your life. There is nothing in there that says the government must provide health insurance, or even Medicare.

But, Kent, the argument criticizing Medicare falls because you can’t admit that Medicare is failing because it can’t be afforded and also, that the legislation you approve of, that the Democrats want to pass will reduce Medicare benefits, NOT MAKE THEM BETTER. You claim you care so much, but then you want old people to suffer by having their Medicare benefits cut and approve of withholding care to the elderly, as Obama said is appropriate at the townhall meeting.

And to act like there isn’t rationing and there aren’t long lines in countries that have government run health care is being intellectually dishonest. Why do you think the hospitals at the Canadian border see so many Canadians? If it is so good in Canada, with government run health care, why do they come here at all? The truth is that it is NOT that good.

It sounds like to me you are just one of those people who want a hand-out from the government and want the government to be your nanny because that is the crux of your whole argument, that you just want the government to provide for your health care – to sum it up, take care of you. I bet you have not read any of the bills that are being proposed and are just blindly following whatever Obama says even though he hasn’t produced a bill. Read the bill so that you know what you are talking about. And I bet all you watch is CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and all you read is Newsweek, Time, and the Associated Press and believe they are telling you the truth when in fact they are just reporting what the Democrats are saying. If you haven’t figured that out, I wonder about your intelligence. Obama answered a woman in a townhall saying that he didn’t think the government shouldn’t give her elderly mother a pacemaker but instead, just send her off to die with a handfull of pain medication. You approve of that? Obama and the Democrats want to fine you if you choose not to get their approved health insurance and send you to prison if you don’t pay. The bills before congress authorizes the government to deny care. And it makes private insurance illegal, contrary to the Obama lies. If you change your private company policy for any reason, they have to cancel your policy and you have to take the government policy. YOU WILL HAVE NO CHOICE. It will be ILLEGAL to have a private policy. You will have to take the government policy whether you LIKE IT OR NOT. That is in the legislation the Democrats want to pass. They want to put private insurance companies out of business so that you will have no choice where now, if you don’t like your policy or your premium, you can change companies. Not anymore after what you and the Democrats want to pass. WAKE UP and start thinking and stop blindly following whatever Obama says, Obama who has broken every campaign promise he made during the campaign and who promised that unemployment would not go above 8%. Nothing he has said has turned out to be true. WAKE UP!

Thank you.