HEALTH BILL: Voters ultimately to blame

As I read the letters on the Opinion page, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to give some nameless bureaucrat the power to make important decisions for them. Currently, it's their health care. If the current health care law being proposed is so good for us, I have two questions:

 1. Why doesn't the health rules go into effect immediately and

2. Why isn't it good enough for members of Congress? We all seem to have a common enemy, the professional politician! I am not advocating a useless term limits law, but I think it's certainly counterproductive to us all when politicians have retirement and medical programs for both them and their families, even after they retire!

They keep telling us that it's called public service! Election after election they tell how they are going to change things in Washington though they have been there for 20 or even 30 years! The voters are to blame for this, because we vote and then go fishing because we think our job is done!  We don't pay attention until something happens that we don't like, then we get all riled up and indignant! And we argue with each other instead of taking to task the very elected representatives who are attempting to impose their will on us. We become so involved in debating the details of changes to the law that will supposedly make our lives utopian, we forget there really aren't any free lunches and most importantly that THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS!

 PAUL CIRUSO

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