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I, like many other American citizens as well as 30 million others living here, am following closely the round- table discussions with President Obama on health care reform.
Correctly, Obama has observed that if you ask most people living here if they would like universal, no-strings health care, they respond yes.
I suspect if you asked them if a new home, free food, and eight vacations per year at government expense would be desirable, they would also say yes. We agree on that much, at least.
Congress has lost the confidence of the great majority of Americans, a fact that seems to escape our so-called leaders.
You can paint the people opposed to the government's efforts to intrude into every aspect of our lives as obstructionists, but the fact remains that this very same body of congressmen and senators is collectively and individually responsible for the death struggle the middle class is now engaged in.
Where were all the round tables when we pleaded with Congress to seal our borders, to not ship jobs out of the country with NAFTA, and to proceed with caution before deciding to go to perpetual war?
Congress did not listen then, and they are not listening now.
There is enough fraud, fat, waste, and prosecutable crime in the Medicare and Medicaid systems now to serve the needs of our citizens, and the government has done nothing to discourage it.
Congress is failing at its job, and that is to listen.
Larry Johnson
Stafford
