Dear Congressman Brian Baird,
As a resident of south-west Washington I have the dubious privilege of having you as my elected representative. You seem to get it on a number of issues which are important to me, the global fight against terror, second amendment rights and others. The other day I happened upon a video clip where you talk about the people attending town hall meetings, who you apparently don’t agree with. Imagine my surprise to hear you equate people exercising their first amendment rights with domestic terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh who blew up the Oklahoma City federal building.
Read the bill.
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville said:
Municipal freedom is not a fruit of human device; it is rarely created; but it is, as it were, secretly and spontaneously engendered in the midst of a semi-barbarous state of society. The constant action of the laws and the national habits, peculiar circumstances, and above all time, may consolidate it; but there is certainly no nation on the continent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people’s reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty. The transient passions and the interests of an hour, or the chance of circumstances, may have created the external forms of independence; but the despotic tendency which has been repelled will, sooner or later, inevitably reappear on the surface.”
Notice the bolded section in the excerpt above.
Read the bill.
What is it about people using their rights as American citizens you have a problem with? What other rights, protected in the Bill of Rights, do you not like? I’ve noticed a pattern with you and the rest of your fellow Democrats. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and others have dismissed these people as ‘astroturf’, seemingly unable to believe that anyone would have the intelligence to think for themselves. Perhaps it is because this is SOP for you and your colleagues that you naturally jump to this conclusion. Now, because your party is afraid to face the public and answer for your votes, many of you have gone to phone meetings or canceled them altogether. What do you guys have to hide? Surely you all have read the bill and know everything in it, right? Who exactly are you representing anyway, your party, or your constituents? I ask in all honesty because I don’t know. I for one sure don’t feel represented.
Read the bill.
As my duly elected representative in Washington D.C. you should be listening to us, not Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama. We’re the ones who matter. We elected you, and we can un-elect you. You work for us, not the DNC! If you continue in this nonsense I will do everything in my power to see you don’t return to Washington D.C. next election.
Read the bill.
According to the latest study, eighty nine percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care, as well as seventy percent of the “un-insured.” Among those who have more recently made use of the health care system, ninety three to ninety five percent are satisfied with the care they received. If our health care system is so flawed, why are these numbers so high? If our health care system is so flawed, how come citizens from other countries overwhelmingly come to the USA for treatment? If our health care system is so flawed, how come Ted Kennedy is receiving treatment in the USA instead of seeking help elsewhere?
Read the bill.
In countries with socialized medicine such as Canada or Great Britain, critical surgeries or treatments are either delayed or don’t come at all. The government decides who lives and who dies. If it’s not cost effective then treatment never comes. We currently have the best health care system in the world. Why you want to destroy that I can’t understand. I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine living in a country like this.
Sincerely,
Yuri Orlov
Thanks to aepilotjim for the inspiration for this post.
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