Open Letter to Congressional Leaders,by proxy

This is a letter I recently read on Sarah Palin's Facebook page by a woman that commented on another letter to an op/ed piece in a newspaper.By the time I copy and pasted it the woman's comment was gone so I failed in finding her to ask permission to post it.I hope she does not mind me sharing it with you.It completely captures all that I think and feel about the lastest legislative disaster coming out of DC.Mysterious-letter-writing-lady,Thank You and God Bless you!!!

OPEN LETTER TO ALL CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS

Dears Sirs and Madams:

Go home. Enjoy your holidays. Enjoy your families. Look into the woeful eyes of your children that you will be leaving in a bankrupted state by spending money that you don’t have and by making us go without decent health care because neither we nor the nation can pay for it. Sit down with your humiliated mothers and explain your shameful behavior of ignoring the people that you represent, breaking your sacred oaths of office and constantly lying to us. Step back from this debate and let the American people have time to read the final bill that you want to pass and the CBO scores while you read the bill, read the myriad of polls that are against you and this administration, and search your hearts for honor and your moral compasses.
Tell the President to stop using the same scare tactics that he vilifies others for using, to live up to his promise for transparency, and to also remember his promise to not sign a single bill that costs us “one dime.” You and the President and other Cabinet members must stop using bribes and threats to get your way. That is not a democratic process. That is corruption. This President swore that he would go through budgets and spending bills “item by item” to strike unnecessary pork spending, yet the House forged ahead to allow millions and millions of dollars to be earmarked for special interests. The health care bills are loaded with extensive regulations that go far and away beyond any Constitutional powers, with more costly agencies, increased bureaucracies and intrusive personal programs that violate our basic freedoms and liberties to raise our children and make decisions for our families.

Your bill is a mess. Your house is in a mess. Even your mice are leaving the ship that they are sinking, as Democrat after Democrat throw in the towel on any chance of re-election and announce retirement. You have completely shut out any money-saving, small steps towards health reform that Republicans have suggested. You have met under the cloak of secrecy like thieves in the night, and your plan to vote while Americans are distracted by their holy days is vile, despicable, dishonest, appalling, contemptible, wicked, shameful, loathsome, and deceitful; and will be UNFORGETTABLE in 2010 and 2012.

I would be remiss if I did not offer solutions, as I know that we could improve our health care system. But my solutions would insure better health care, not control and manipulate favored industries with bonuses and privileges while holding non-contributing industries back and limiting, if not killing, their businesses. We can better serve health CARE without rampant government control, the expansion of the federal government, or taking monies away from Medicare. (Even though Medicare and Medicaid and related programs are unconstitutional, I will accept that they are here to stay until they go completely bankrupt like other federal programs.)

Health care, medical and health care insurance costs can be made affordable if you:

• Establish wise universal access programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions. Like car insurance, you pay less and get less coverage for a “clunker,” but some coverage should be offered to anyone who desires it.

• End junk lawsuits and curb defensive medical practices such as performing and recommending unnecessary tests and procedures by enacting medical liability reforms.

• Prevent insurers from unjustly cancelling a policy unless a person commits fraud or purposefully conceals material facts about a health condition.

• Encourage small business health plans with the power to pool together to vie for lower rates as co-ops.

• Allow Americans to buy insurance across state lines as we do other types of insurance.

• Promote healthier lifestyles by giving employers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who exercise, make wise health decisions and make few insurance claims or tax rebates for people who seldom use the health care system.

• Allow and enhance Health Savings Accounts to pay premiums for high deductible health insurance.

• Allow dependents to remain on their parents’ policies until they are 25.

•Allow people to choose to be uninsured, knowing they will have to pay for their medical needs.

•Regulate pharmaceutical and medical equipment costs.

•Do not grant special favors for labor unions who have their own access to negotiations and pooling or illegal immigrants who are free to go home to their own health care system.

•Do not allow federal monies or American tax dollars to pay for abortions, support programs that promote abortions, or supplement/reimburse doctors/clinics that perform abortions.

•Vigorously prosecute fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and related federal programs so that we can recover the billions of dollars that YOU say are wasted every year.

•Give the STATES the power to oversee the business of health care and health care insurance. The Constitution has no provisions for the federal government to do so. The federal government has the power to protect us from harm and abuse.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Verbal fumblings cont....

I love Glenn Beck and one of the many things he does that I love is to lead with his mistakes. I misspelled Boonesville,Missouri (the lil bitty town where Sharon and I 1st found out something was going very wrong with her health).It may not seem much but tell that to the good people of Boonesville......as I was telling you from the previous blog...Mid-February 2007,After the ER doctor(he couldn't have been more than 30 yrs old)on duty the night we showed up at the Boovesville Hospital told us she more than likely had cancer Sharon asked for something in the truck and before I could even got outdoors I broke down in tears completely overwhelmed with fear.My driver manager informed me that another driver would pick up my load and put up little resistance to my insistance on getting back to DFW and then Abilene.Once back at Gainey's yard my recruiter and ops manager sat me down to listen and gave me many words of faith and encouragement.Then the office visits began after getting back to Abilene.The names of doctors and nurses are all a blur now,with the exception of a very large very kind hearted hospice nurse at Hendricks,God bless you Mary wherever you are.God bless all of them.There was the doctor's visit that without a doubt verified that Sharon had cervical cancer.The visit that told us she had grade 4b cervical cancer.There's grades 1 to 4,a,b or c. 4c being the worst.We held out hope for a short time that a radical hysterectomy would catch all of it but soon after found out that the cancer had spead to her lymph nodes,which I found out are the "super-highways" of the human body.It had spread.

Let the verbal fumblings begin

OK lets get this started.This is my 1st attempt at a blog.I'm sure all my friends on Facebook and Myspace wish I had done this a long time ago.This is gonna contain my view on God,politics,music,sports....a lil bit o everything.I do my best to not use profanity but it will be here from time to time.Oh yea I'll even throw in more than a few misspelled words and confused concepts to boot.I'm a middle-aged Christian.Conservative politically.I'm a recovering methhead/boozehound.Nothing at all since mid April of this year,and no speed since about October of 2003.I'm also a widower.Even after two years it's still sounds weird and is weirder to type.My wife's name is Sharon(I know I still use the present tense when talkin about her).She was a loving oft times exaspirating red headed beauty that I was fortunate enough to know for 4 years and be married to for 3 and a half.As a OTR driver we found out that she had cervical cancer.She rode with me for the year I drove over the road doing my logs and navigating,you know the brain-work.All I had to do was the driving,you know the muscle-work.It was a brilliant partnership.She became ill with stomach cramps while we were in Missouri.I pulled over at the nearest truck stop in Bonnesville. The kindly old lady behind the counter informed me of their hospital about a half a mile down the road and that it was ok to drop my trailer to bobtail over there.The young doctor quickly eased her pain a bit and then told us something was wrong after the pelvic exam."If I was a betting man I was would say you have cervical cancer."That was late January of 2007 if I have the math right.....I'll post more on that later.