I want to thank you for pushing health care reform on us. You have convinced me that you know what's best for me. Let me explain.

First of all, you are in the process of destroying the Democratic Party, thank God. Liberals and socialists like you will be gone for a while. Sure, the Republican Party will screw up, and we'll get something like you again, just not in my lifetime.

Secondly, you have awoken a sleeping giant -- the American people. We know what you are about to throw on us will break this country if we let it. We won't. Whatever you throw on us will be overturned in 2012, after you are long gone. The elections of 2010 and 2012 will bring in true conservatives who will eliminate your mess, along with a ton of other entitlements that you and other Republican Congresses have given away. After this, we will be able to start paying down the national debt. Taxes won't have to be raised. Handouts will be gone.

Third, you and your people don't appear to be the smartest tools in the shed. This is not about health care, it's about control. If you think you can tax people before they receive benefits, you are crazy. People will not see benefits, which aren't there anyway, until after you are gone, and you will be gone.

Any person in their right mind knows you can't put 30 million people into this system and not see rationing. You can't make people purchase insurance without the penalties being higher then premiums. This is plain stupid. If a premium would be $1,500 per month and the penalty for not having insurance is $500 per month, what would you pay? Yet, we'll take care of them if they get sick. I ask you, does this make sense? This looks like a true government program to me.

A government board will set prices for surgeries and illnesses. What doctor in his right mind would want to work in a system like this? Medicaid payments were just cut 21 percent last week. Tons of doctors will be getting out of this program. They won't be able to afford to stay in it.

Once again, thanks a lot. I hope you can get all your buddies to go along with you, that way they can be eliminated too. You might want to throw in a few more bribes just for good measure.

Terry W. Piesker

Victoria