Politics & Government

Letter: Response to 'Randy Hultgren has No Credibility', Says ObamaCare "Is Killing Us"

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This letter is in response to a previous letter to the editor, Randy Hultgren has No Credibility.

I have never agreed with President Obama and I have limited respect for the president.

I strongly disagree with his fiscal policies as it relates to government spending and tax policy and President Obama has no credibility or any experience when it comes to deficit reduction or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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ObamaCare is killing us in so many ways I can’t list them and the health care system that we had prior to 1996 when the first HIPPA law was passed was the best on the planet since the beginning of time!

One of the major cancers that plague our political system is that fact that elected officials are expected to bring home the bacon even if it means compromising their stated beliefs i.e. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) of KKK fame for example.

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The President is obsessed with government involvement in our society aka “Social Engineering” and “Social Justice” two phrases that cannot be defined in specific terms. Go to Wikipedia (popular these days) and it says ... The phrase has taken on a very controverted and variable meaning, depending onWHO is using it... President Obama has an almost dyslexic ability to turn things around to fit the Progressive Left’s idea of who DESERVES what FROM whom.

“The lack of federal funding” is precisely the point! The invisible hand of the free market system will automatically and without prejudice guide rescores to the most sought after and/or urgently needed vacuums created by individual and group needs.  “Federal funding” can vanish or suddenly appear with every election, over which we have less and less control; see McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform. The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves!

Case in point when you say... “Very soon people are going to start asking as we start losing in our district rather than gaining at the federal level” – How does Oswego benefit by gaining at the FEDEAL level? How does giving MY money to the rest of the country help stop the Heroin Epidemic that is in OUR backyards? D.A.R.E does NOT work.

Why do we need someone in Washington DC to take care of problems in School District 308? The fact that you say “keeping taxes low for only the top one percent and limiting government to help everyday people” is so blatantly miss-informed it is laughable!

ObamaCare alone is increasing taxes, fees, penalties, costs & regulations on EVERYBODY and if the Government took 100% of the income from the top 1% the problem would not go away!

And when you say “help everyday people” what do you call Lynx cards, free cell phones, All Kids, unending unemployment benefits, and as it states on page 1 of 21 on the ObamaCare application DRAFT 01.16.13... “You may qualify for a free or low-cost program even if you earn as much as $92,000.00 a year (for a family of 4)”.

Since when is making $91,000.00 a year, (That’s $1,750.00 a week!) worthy of needing any kind of help?!?!?

Stanley M. Salsbery, CFP
Oswego, Ill. 


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