Letters to the Editor
Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
May 17, 2009
How many police does it take to silence the voice of the American people? We do not as yet know, but Sen. Max Baucus of Montana wishes to add many more simply to assure that they do not even have to consider the only health care plan that would work well.
Why is the Senate not even considering the single-payer health plan, but snidely laughing behind closed doors as they prepare to put another one over on the American people? When are we going to say “enough,” like the French people recently did when their government tried to make them pay for the government’s own ineptness and bad management? Is there not one person who is still a vertebrate in this country?
Last week, the Senate Finance Committee thought it a hilarious joke as they ejected one activist after another because they protested that not even one spokesperson for single-payer health care was permitted to sit at the hearing table. Freedom of speech? Equal representation? Now it is my turn to laugh.
Let us stop cowering. Let us take this country back. Down with wimpy, mewling American citizens. Start drinking your V8, everyone!
C. Alfred Santillo
Sharon Springs, NY