Common Sense

President Obama's last ditch plea to the American public about healthcare reform is too little, too late. He is a very eloquent speaker, and although I think his popularity poll may spike temporarily as a result of his speech, I believe that the American public still knows and believes that no matter how eloquent he may be, his message is the same...confusion, spend money we don't have to OVERHAUL an entire system because hey, we should trust him.

Is that like how we were supposed to trust him on the stimulus? And cap and trade? The Auto bailouts for which we now hear (no surprise) that the taxpayer won't get their(our) money back? The stimulus spending, despite the credit he and his administration takes, is not working. There has been under 15% of the stimulus spent, a lot of what has been spent it is riddled with pork and fraud, unemployment is now at 9.7% when it wasn't supposed to go past 8% with the passage of the stimulus bill.

When is the President going to put the will of the people ahead of the will of himself? People voted for hope and change, not for a complete and radical departure from what made this country the best country on the planet.

Government serves its purpose, but that purpose should be limited. The President and a lot of the Congress think that THEY know what's best for you and me, in the 8th Congressional District in Illinois. What's good for us here isn't necessarily what is good for Topeka, KS or Scottsdale, AZ.

So why would we trust people to make those decisions for us? The government does serve a purpose, but making decisions about how my family receives and uses healthcare is not one of them. That is best left to each and every one of us on an individual level.

I think the President and Congress have lost touch with reality and with what is truly going on in America. How could they truly want to cram through a radical agenda, in the dark of holiday weekends, weekends, parts of other bills, etc? If the agenda is so great, open it up for debate, have separate bills for everything, don't hide it.

If they are convinced what they want to do is for the best interest of America, welcome townhall meetings, feedback, open debate and discussion of ideas. Don't criticize people for parties you think they represent. Don't tell the American people it is ESSENTIAL to IMMEDIATELY pass these bills to keep costs down and not even allow discussion on medical malpractice reform.

Who are these people truly serving?