Who's exempt?

EDITOR:

The health care debate is well under way and the Congress of the United States, both the House and Senate, have decided that we have a need for universal health care. Looking around at all the citizens I find not one who looks exactly like another. We are all created to not be exactly alike. From different color eyes to hair (if we have any left), short, tall, heavy and thin we are all different in many ways.

How does the government think it can demand every citizen to be under one umbrella for health care? There are about 350 million Americans and we are according to our government exactly alike with one exception.

Guess who would be exempt from this mandate? Right you are, the Congress who would maintain the right to pick and choose their insurance. If this plan is so great for the American people I believe it should be the Congress that signs up first for this program.

Mr. Harry Reid has promised that he will give to Louisiana a cool $300 million to obtain the vote of Sen. Mary Landrieu. This money will come from the taxpayers of all 50 states.

Smells a bit fishy to me that a senator can use taxpayer funds to bribe another senator. This health care plan is nothing but another effort of the government to take over the economy of the country and our liberty to choose.

If you are not part of the solution to stop this you are certainly part of the problem. Remember how well the government has run the post office, the railroads, and of course the nonexistent locked box with all the dollars for Social Security.

This program is a disaster in the making and when someone tells you under penalty of law that you must comply or go to jail or pay a fine we have lost our liberty and freedom to choose.

John J. Delaney

Minden