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In the article “GOP boycotting panel’s work on climate change unhelpful” (Nov. 9), The Washington Post commented on the John Kerry-Barbara Boxer mark-up session regarding the climate bill legislation that passed the House and was sent to the Senate. The bill primarily is the House version that was written by the Apollo Alliance, not Reps. Henry Waxman or Edward Markey. This is devastating law, if passed, for every person in America.
My view is one of great disappointment as elected senators of the Republican Party never bothered showing up. Their side of the table is empty. By golly, they sure showed the Democrats, didn’t they? If they can’t have their way, then they will just take their toys and go home.
Now anyone who knows Boxer knows she simply does not care whether they were there or not, so she just simply proceeded with the meeting. As a resident of California, she has little or no regard for Hoosiers and how the legislation will devastate our economy and add untold burdens to family budgets already stretched to the limit. Or maybe she does know that and has fallen in line with (as some House members have stated, the powers that be.) Who those powers are could be revealed by Rep. John Conyers. He is the one who referred to those “powers.”
What seems to have happened in Washington is it has turned into a Tower of Babel. The quoting of statistics by both sides has become no longer believable. Some say the Earth is warming at alarming rates. They have the data to prove it. Others say they have the data to prove otherwise, citing equally impressive scientific findings.
There are those who quote statistics of 47 million uninsured. There are those who quote far less. So to look out for us, a 2,000-page bill was passed in the house because we folks down here really do not have the wisdom of the almighty in Congress. Through the letters to the editor feature, I have consistently asked for Sens. Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh to come to Fort Wayne at a venue that would be suitable for a large crowd to hear us out, both sides, on these very important issues. No response.
As I understand both pieces of legislation, climate change and health care, the costs are unsustainable. The orgy of feeding at the Treasury trough by members of Congress has depleted our money supply. If you are to believe the Congressional Budget Office, we are broke. If we are to look at past initiatives such as Amtrak and Medicare, they are losing money, and Medicare is projected to be out of money completely in eight years. Social Security has been exposed as the mother lode of Ponzi schemes, and it, too, will be broke soon.
So, to the members of Congress I say, please stop it. We can’t take it anymore. Stop the foreign aid; stop propping up Third World dictators. Stop the spending. They only spend about three days a week at work; how can they figure out how to spend so much in such a short time? Enough is enough.
Please contact Lugar and Bayh and demand no more passage of these two giant bills, health care and climate change.
And if anyone thinks I am a right-wing zealot, think again. My wife and I have both lost our jobs. She is uninsured and has a brain tumor. As a veteran, I am blessed with coverage through the VA, at the expense of having lived through the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. So, please no whining from the left.
Lugar’s local telephone number is 422-1505, and Bayh’s is 426-3151. While you are at it, invite them to come to Fort Wayne and explain to us how they will be voting on these two bills.
DAVE COOPER Churubusco
