Responding to letter ‘Pretty soon a future’

I had to laugh at “Pretty soon a future”. It reminds me of an alternative reality of left-wing pipe dreams.

Pretty soon Americans will vote for change they can believe in and afford.

What the author of “Pretty soon a future” fails to realize is the American people do not want big government on steroids, an unsustainable national debt, an embarrassing mess of a U.S. foreign policy that appeases our enemies and dismisses our friends, a confused policy on national security only concerned with political correctness, all wrapped up by an elitist dismissal of Middle American concerns.

That ideologically driven policy, together with the “government knows best” attitude, will cost the Democrats dozens of House seats and maybe even control of the Senate, and that will be just the beginning.

Pretty soon after the next Congress is sworn in the IRS agents hired to enforce Obama Care will be defunded.

Pretty soon after Obama is denied a second term, just like Jimmy Carter, Obama Care will be repealed and replaced with a more market and patient oriented reform that cares for patients without bureaucrats interfering with the doctor-patient relationship.

I have never seen the electorate so angry at the federal government as they are now. Those who believe the Democrats will not lose a significant number of seats in November are truly living in an alternative reality.

Nat Atkins
Mechanicsville

The cost of the uninsured

In regard to the letter to the editor titled “Question on Obamacare” (which is a misnomer), the writer seems to assume that, currently, uninsured Americans costs us nothing.

However, a estimate, by the reliable Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, states that the uninsured receive $56 billion of uncompensated care per year, which this includes $43 billion in federal (taxpayer) money (the rest is often a cost to hospitals, state and local governments and is reflected in health care insurance premiums and high medical fees).

This is to say nothing of the cost in pain and suffering, as the uninsured wait until to seek help until their conditions are more severe, a far more important cost.

Think about it: Should we be a country, for example, where uninsured children and adults die from dental problems?

Judy Thomas
Mechanicsville

Digital dead zone

Let me say that I feel Mr. Listo’s pain in the lack of 21st century technology in the Black Creek area. You do not suffer alone, neighbor.

We are doomed to dial up Internet, no Verizon wireless cell phone signal, no Verizon DSL, and no Clear Wire Internet signal.

While Comcast does have a line in front of our house and our neighbors enjoy Comcast service, for some unknown reason, Comcast is unable to run a cable to our house after repeated orders for service.

It has become a standing joke at our house when the Comcast Triple Play flyer comes in the mail, we say, “Let’s call and order today,” so the technician can come out again and tell us that there is no cable from the pole to our house—even when we tell Comcast we need a cable from the pole to the house first.

So, don’t be discouraged that the Comcast “wires stop about one mile from your house.” Even if the cable was right in front of your house, they probably couldn’t get service to you.

As for Verizon DSL, we have been asking for that for five years. “It’s on the way,” we’re told, but somehow it stopped about a mile from our house and has never moved.

I am glad to hear you have a Verizon wireless signal even if it is “marginal and connection speeds are poor.” We don’t have one at all. The signal begins about a mile down the road either way from our house. This fact made life very interesting last April when a wind storm blew down a tree, which struck the power lines, knocked out our home phones and started a fire on our property.

So, with no cell phone signal, we just fought the fire until someone showed up from the fire department.

My suggestion to you is make sure you have lots of insurance.

Clear Wire told us that we would be in their Internet coverage area when we signed up with them for service, but again there was no signal.

What is interesting is that there is a cell tower located about midway down Rockhill Road, but again there is no Verizon wireless service or Clear Wire Internet service on it. So close, yet so far away.

H.T. Pritchard
Mechanicsville

Pretty soon . . . no future!

Mr. Blend’s attempt at something literary in his defense of America’s descent into the black hole of liberalism indicates that the left-wing of the Democratic Party must reside in a parallel universe.  They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, so here goes.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . Americans will be coerced into paying higher taxes, and insurance premiums, for reduced quality healthcare.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . full employment will be something our children read about in the history books because creating private sector jobs became too expensive in America.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . the average residential electric bill will increase by $250 a month because of idiotic, Al Gore inspired, Cap and Trade Legislation.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . citizens will be coerced into labor union membership in order to provide sustenance for their families.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . death will once again become a taxable event.

Pretty soon, thanks to Obama and the Democrats . . . America will go bankrupt because of the crushing national debt.

Pretty soon, thank to Obama and the Democrats . . . once proud Americans will exist in a stale calm of utopia as opposed to experiencing the challenges of life.

Pretty soon, there will be an election where Americans will be able to choose between a life controlled by distant, know-nothing, liberal apparatchiks, or the ability to direct their own individual destinies. 

Pretty soon, I will be voting for Eric Cantor for Congress, and whoever runs against Obama in 2012!

Hyland F. Fowler Jr.
Ashland

New clown, same old circus

Gov. McDonnell announces that the state has a “surplus” of $404 million. Then in nearly the next sentence he tells us that most of it has already been spent.

Rather than try to reconcile that Alice-in-Wonderland logic, let’s take the governor at his word.

At some point, the Commonwealth confiscated more of its citizens’ wealth than it needed to pay its expenses.

So, did our supposedly “conservative” governor give a moment’s thought to returning the overage to the taxpayers?

Of course not. He found new things on which to spend the money.

It’s the same old circus in Richmond. We just have a new clown.  

Joseph Pierro
Mechanicsville