Will someone explain to me why we should have government-managed heath care? I don’t understand!
Does anybody have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the Department of Energy during the Carter administration?
We have spent several hundred billion dollars in support of this agency and few people probably know the reason for its establishment. Everyone at that time thought it was appropriate. It was going to lessen the dependence on foreign oil. It hasn’t that been efficient. Established on Aug. 4, 1977, we now have an agency with a budget of over $25 billion a year. There are over 16,000 federal employees and over 100,000 contractors, and what a fine job they have done.
The very government that established this agency will not allow drilling offshore — no drilling in ANWR and a protection of every fish, bird or animal that might be affected.
We have seen tobacco blamed for every type of illness imaginable. We have seen taxes upon taxes on tobacco, and our government pays a subsidy to farmers to raise it! Wow, it’s that sensible.
We are standing by watching the government dismantle the banking industry, the automotive industry and anything else they feel is worth the trouble. They now have a pay czar! Where and when will this madness stop?
Has anyone heard of or remember the Constitution? I personally don’t want people like the empty-headed leader of the House of Representatives in charge of my health care or my doctor relationship.
There has been a death of common sense and for those of you who voted for this hope and change, are these the changes you hoped for?
I realize that anyone who is critical of what is going on is looked upon as kooks, rabble-rousers or red-necked Bible thumpers.
I consider them to be thoughtful, caring patriotic victims of the greatest country the world has ever known.
A journalist in 1958 defined freedom: “When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.”
Don Landrith
Joplin
