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March 19, 2010 Since 1922 |
Letters for November 10, 2009
Just (don’t) say no
Well, our congressman has done it again(only this time it was really important). He has voted no to the most important legislation of our lifetime.
Have you noticed how many times he has voted no? How can he protect the people of our district by voting no. Just like not being there at all.
I believe the people of Baytown want to help their neighbors when they are less fortunate. I think we deserve a better representative in Washington.
Stewart Wooten
Crosby
Health care vote
On Saturday, Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
After nearly a century of false starts, this was the first time a chamber of Congress has ever passed comprehensive health insurance reform. This is a historic accomplishment.
Representatives who voted for this bill deserve thanks for resisting tremendous pressure from the insurance industry lobbyists and standing up for their constituents.
Those who did not vote for the bill have one last opportunity to reconsider and support reform in the upcoming final House vote — and they should do so.
A vote for this bill was a vote to provide secure and stable coverage for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for those who do not have insurance, lower costs for families and businesses, and begin to reduce the deficit.
Joe Rodriguez
La Porte
Priorities
I will never understand people in Congress who say the health care plan is too expensive. These are the same people who voted to spend a trillion dollars on an unnecessary war that we can never win.
Are these your priorities ? Spend a trillion to kill people but not a billion to keep our own citizens alive and healthy ?
Tom Bennett
Baytown
Down the river
This is an open letter to the AARP. As a 72-year-old retiree who represents the tens of millions who chose to work for what they have, whose families did without other things they would liked to have had so we could, for 50-plus years, pay Senator Reid’s “voluntary” income tax, pay F.I.C.A taxes and pay into medicare every year since its inception, we have every right to state our opinion of AARP’s endorsement of the House Healthcare bill. You now expect us to do without even more so we can pay for those who choose not to work to pay their own way.
AARP-you are no longer capable of, or deserve to say, that you represent the interest of senior citizens or retired persons. You sold us down the river!
Stan Lee
Baytown
Well, our congressman has done it again(only this time it was really important). He has voted no to the most important legislation of our lifetime.
Have you noticed how many times he has voted no? How can he protect the people of our district by voting no. Just like not being there at all.
I believe the people of Baytown want to help their neighbors when they are less fortunate. I think we deserve a better representative in Washington.
Stewart Wooten
Crosby
Health care vote
On Saturday, Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
After nearly a century of false starts, this was the first time a chamber of Congress has ever passed comprehensive health insurance reform. This is a historic accomplishment.
Representatives who voted for this bill deserve thanks for resisting tremendous pressure from the insurance industry lobbyists and standing up for their constituents.
Those who did not vote for the bill have one last opportunity to reconsider and support reform in the upcoming final House vote — and they should do so.
A vote for this bill was a vote to provide secure and stable coverage for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for those who do not have insurance, lower costs for families and businesses, and begin to reduce the deficit.
Joe Rodriguez
La Porte
Priorities
I will never understand people in Congress who say the health care plan is too expensive. These are the same people who voted to spend a trillion dollars on an unnecessary war that we can never win.
Are these your priorities ? Spend a trillion to kill people but not a billion to keep our own citizens alive and healthy ?
Tom Bennett
Baytown
Down the river
This is an open letter to the AARP. As a 72-year-old retiree who represents the tens of millions who chose to work for what they have, whose families did without other things they would liked to have had so we could, for 50-plus years, pay Senator Reid’s “voluntary” income tax, pay F.I.C.A taxes and pay into medicare every year since its inception, we have every right to state our opinion of AARP’s endorsement of the House Healthcare bill. You now expect us to do without even more so we can pay for those who choose not to work to pay their own way.
AARP-you are no longer capable of, or deserve to say, that you represent the interest of senior citizens or retired persons. You sold us down the river!
Stan Lee
Baytown