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Don To the Editor:
Those protesting the new House budget in Concord last week have one thing in common, they want NH taxpayers to open their wallets for their personal benefit.
Most protesters were public employees demanding no changes to their cushy, secure, low stress, highly compensated (compared to similar private sector) jobs, nor to the corrupt system that maintains their great jobs, benefits, and consequently grows the cost of government .
In response to the article at: http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/249755/councilors-take-federal-health-funds I sent the following letter:
Dear Sirs:
Obamacare was passed against the wishes of the majority of the American people who still want it repealed this includes majorities of Republicans and Independents, and a plurality of Democrats. Obamacare has been ruled unconstitutional.
Every Republican that I am aware of that ran for any national office promised to get rid of Obamacare, repeal or remove funding, and most would NOT have been elected without such a pledge. The US House of Representatives has already passed a repeal bill.
Thus, one wonders why New Hampshire would spend money, even “free” money, to help implement Obamacare.
To the Editor:
Many of the people protesting on Saturday don’t even understand what they are doing. They talk about “Worker’s Rights” (which I support). But they have been duped into protesting for public sector “Union rights”, the right of unions to conspire with politicians against the interests of the American people.
President Franklin Roosevelt said it was wrong to unionize government workers because they are supposed to serve the public. He was right. The public sector was unionized about 50 years ago. Unionization has led to union leaders and politicians creating an increasing number of safe, easy and often low value, well paid unionized employees whose union dues are funneled back to the politicians. It is a vicious cycle. Politicians are supposed to represent the people, but they ignore the good of the people to reward their union supporters. This is corruption pure and simple.
President Obama says he is focusing on jobs. Is that good or bad? In 2009 and 2010 he said he would “focus like a laser” on jobs. Yet we suffer from the longest high unemployment since the great depression with no end in sight.
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Some media and political pundits describe Tea Partiers as “extremists” and “out of the mainstream”. Tea Partiers want smaller, fiscally responsible government operating within the US Constitution, the rule of law not men, and greater economic freedom. Does that sound extreme to you? It shouldn’t, many republicans and democrats promise these things when campaigning. Which Tea Party views are so different from yours?
Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to keep their promises to the American people. Both over promised, overspent, and extended government services without ensuring adequate funding. Neither party has the courage to eliminate failing and counter-productive programs. These irresponsible actions created debt (for current expenses not investments) equal to three times our annual budget, and growing. This puts our country on a collision course with bankruptcy and a dramatic loss in Americans’ standard of living.
Some states are dragging their feet about getting absentee ballots to our military, especially those overseas. But, there is a federal web site that provides generic ballots that soldiers can use to at least cast their votes for US Senators and Congressmen if a soldier’s absentee ballot does not arrive in time. The web site … Read more
In response to Terry Downs’s Letter to the Editor (see after the jump):
To the Editor:
Terry Downs’ letter to the Laconia Daily Sun on October 12 mostly seems right, but his conclusion is baffling. Most Americans probably share the three key values he identifies, personal freedom, equitable tax code with no one getting a “free ride at the expense of others”, and reasonable and prudent personal and government expenditures. Add “rule of law” and strict interpretation of the US Constitution and you would have the major planks in a Tea Party Platform, if there were one.
However, Downs’ conclusion that therefore people should vote for democrats is ludicrous. Contrary to their promises and claims, the evidence of their actions shows that progressives (people learned what liberals stand for, so liberals now want to be called “progressives”) such as Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid and their followers like Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes prioritize these values, if they share them at all, way below their progressive big government agenda.
Some examples showing that progressives do NOT cherish personal freedoms follow. Both Shea-Porter and Hodes supported the Cap and Trade bill that will not only increase your energy costs, it will, despite the wishes of both buyer and seller, restrict the ability to sell your house unless it meets new bureaucrat established environmental standards. Also, both Shea-Porter and Hodes are co-sponsors of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check) which allows a workplace to be unionized without a secret vote by the workers. These stomp on personal freedom.
Remember the promises that Americans can keep their health insurance under Obamacare supported by Shea-Porter and Hodes? About 7 million …
To the Editor:
Now that President Obama’s “Summer of recovery” is over, we hear that the recession ended in June of 2009. Well, bless me, I guess that makes everything just fine.
But, what about the nearly ten percent unemployed? The additional ten percent underemployed or discouraged workforce drop-outs? The record levels of Americans in poverty? The miniscule economic growth rate? The media described President Bush‘s five percent unemployment rate as a disaster. The media describes President Obama’s numbers as the “new normal”.
Unfortunately, if President Obama’s policies are continued, these numbers, and the personal disasters they represent, may be the “new normal”. Few businesses will invest and hire people when they cannot estimate their expenses because of the many unknown costs of President Obama’s agenda, e.g., Obamacare, cap and trade, card check, executive compensation limits, personnel policies, taxation, etc. What business executives will take risks when the government can declare a business “too risky and too important” and just take over the business, dismiss the executives, and wipe out investors as it did with car company investors?
As long as President Obama and the other liberals (or “progressives” as some prefer) smear business executives and investors, create a treacherous economic environment, and…
A bit dated, but I never thought about it this way.
By Bruce Walker
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party .
The Republican Party is different.
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.
The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, grow.
Against whom do…
To the Editor:
The media and some political pundits describe Tea Party people as “extremists” and “out of the mainstream”. While each Tea Partier has his or her own views, most want smaller, fiscally responsible government, the rule of law not men, and greater economic freedom. Does that sound extreme to you? As a Tea Partier, I wonder which of my views, which I think are shared by most Tea Partiers, are so different from yours?
Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to keep their promises to the American people. Both have over promised and overspent. Both extended government services without ensuring adequate funding and too often into areas of questionable constitutionality. Neither party has the courage to eliminate programs that don’t work, are counter-productive, or are not worth the cost, and both have put our country onto a collision path with bankruptcy and a dramatic loss in our standard of living.
The sad thing is that we, the people, allowed our politicians to do this to us, to our Country, and to subsequent generations when we accepted their promises of “free stuff“ (or more than we pay for). Tea Partiers say…
To the Editor:
When did Americans decide it is OK to live comfortably at the expense of their children and future generations? Parents used to work multiple jobs and sacrifice for their children. Now Americans make future generations sacrifice for us.
Today’s national debt of $13.3 trillion saddles each new child with over $43,000 worth of our national debt and over $400,000 worth of promised, but un-funded future obligations. Even at today’s low interest rates, interest payments already are one of the biggest federal budget items. Projected budgets increase the debt by at least $1 trillion annually for the next ten years, increasing the tax burden on future generations and on ourselves. Some economists believe this much debt could be more disastrous than the current housing / credit crisis.
If these debts were incurred to save our country during a war, that would be one thing. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost $1-2 trillion, the rest of our $13.3 trillion debt was spent to make life easier for today’s Americans.
How did this debt accumulate? Did Americans decide to take advantage of their children and future generations? Or, did politicians take advantage of our trust and gullibility?
Dear Senator , Please oppose the appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. It is time for the Senate to re-consider the criteria for any Federal Judge and to consider if our country is to be ruled by the rule of law or the whims of a few men (and women) on the … Read more
To the Editor:
While Bev Lapham may need to be reminded everyday about the evils of Obamacare, polls show that the majority of Americans don’t need reminders, they have consistently rejected it since last summer. The problem as Anna DeRose so aptly put it is, “Does Washington ever listen to the American people … ?”
On Sunday the leftists, the bribed, and the threatened voted to take over America’s healthcare system with legislation that threatens the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of every American. The process used to get passage was the opposite of the open, ethical, and bi-partisanship promised by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid. Legislation and deals were made behind closed doors, advocates consistently lied about the bill’s provisions, costs, critics, and about keeping your health insurance (the CBO says 8 to 9 million Americans will lose their employer provided insurance and millions more will lose their Medicare Advantage coverage), and the only bi-partisanship on this bill was in opposition as republicans were joined by democrats who could not be threatened or bribed into ignoring the will of their constituents.
The lives and quality of life of American seniors are threatened by the $500 plus billion cuts from Medicare, in fact 33 million Seniors will be at risk of losing access to medical care according to the Medicare Chief Actuary. Seniors see Canada, Britain, California and other places where people have government insurance but cannot get a doctor or cannot get treated when needed, and they see this increasingly happen here.
Obamacare creates a bureaucracy which shields politicians when government denies medical care. If they get sick, Seniors know they may be worth more dead than alive to a government which controls the healthcare they will receive by rewarding or punishing doctors based on their conformance to political and bureaucratic guidelines as happens today in other government controlled systems. So some seniors will live in pain. Other seniors will be denied lifesaving care and will die, not only saving medical costs but ending social security payments and perhaps filling government coffers with estate taxes.
Americans know proponents have lied about the financial viability of Obamacare. They know that you can’t claim a deficit neutral system when you raise taxes and cut costs for ten years to pay for only six years of coverage. They know there won’t be big savings from reducing fraud, how much additional fraud did the President cut last year? (No extra authorization is/was needed to fight fraud.) They know that other integral costs have been taken out of the bill and will be added later. Also ignored are the increased taxpayer costs at the State level to support millions more Medicaid recipients.
Americans have had a healthcare and health insurance system which satisfies the overwhelming majority of Americans, including millions who have been covered very well for expensive procedures. Americans know that fixing this system’s relatively small problems (albeit sometimes individually devastating) are best done with small changes not a government takeover.
At President Obama’s health care summit, Americans learned that agreements could have been reached last year to fix those problems and start helping people last year.
But, President Obama and today’s leftist Congress demand a government takeover of the whole healthcare and health insurance system. They demand another costly new Federal bureaucracy to manage healthcare. They will restrict your health insurance choices to fit their objectives, not your needs. Most people will see premium increases rather than President Obama’s promised $2500 decrease. If Obamacare is so great, why do they need to hire 16,500 new IRS agents to enforce it and even threaten jail for non-compliance? Is the IRS the new kinder, gentler face of the Obama government?
Representative John Dingle just told us why it takes so long for the new heathcare “reforms” to roll out, “It takes a long time to set up the mechanisms to control 300 (million) people.” Was Obamacare sold as being a way to “control” the American people? Is that what the American people want, to be controlled by government?
Is Obamacare being done to help really poor people? No. The really poor people are…
I have just sent this in for publication: To the Editor: President Obama’s health care summit revealed that Republicans support President Obama’s stated objectives of reducing health care costs, increasing affordability and expanding coverage. Therefore, needy Americans could be receiving benefits today from Republican supported inter-state purchase of health insurance, decreased defensive medical costs from … Read more