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Fundraiser for Dennis Anderson
Congressional Candidate in Illinois Congressional District 14
More and more constituents in IL-14 are growing increasingly unhappy with our present representative, Randy Hultgren. His track record speaks for itself:
He chose to make nearly 800,000 public workers go without pay with the government shutdown, to keep millions of people from accessing health insurance, to deny SNAP benefits to military families, to lock thousands of children out of Head Start programs. And he said there should be changes to Medicare and Social Security.
While the election is a year away, it’s not too early to show your support for the candidate Dennis Anderson, who would work to protect his constituents’ benefits. If you would like to help make a change in Washington, join us at:
Anderson Fundraiser
Tuesday, Nov. 5 from 7-9 p.m.
at the Village Squire
480 Randall Road, South Elgin
Great food … entertainment, raffle, and an opportunity to meet and talk with the candidate.
If you can come, Please RSVP at: andersonforcongress14@gmail.com
David Williams
Anderson for Congress
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Rebuttal to Cecile Powell
Your statement that we are the only industrialized nation that does not provide health care for its citizens implies that it is a failing of some kind, when it was one of our strengths. The government getting into anything automatically assures its failure. Oh, those who receive the benefits never think it is a failure; however, those of us who have their hard-earned money extracted by excessive taxation see it otherwise.
Health care is 18 percent of our gross national product. I can see how those who came to our shores lately from Europe would yearn to have the things the rest of us escaped from, provided at the expense of those of us who came here earlier. Recent polls show that 67 percent of the population thinks the Affordable Health Care Law is a bad law, enacted by 100 percent democrats. No major legislation has ever been passed without help from the other party until now.
Anything I say about Mr. Obama has nothing to do with wanting to destroy him; I just believe his ideas and his administration are anti-American. We each have the right to believe any way we want to, and I believe he is a Marxist. His friends and supporters think he is a wonderful man, and I am sure he is to them. He takes from us and gives to them. The old adage applies. If you rob Peter to give to Paul, you will always get the agreement of Paul, but Peter will disagree.
Every speech the president makes is a paraphrase of one chapter or another of the Communist Manifesto that Marx and Engels wrote as a blueprint for the way they wanted to be governed. Well not exactly – they wanted to remain among the elite, while the rest were governed by their blueprint. Their ideas were beautiful in theory. From each according to their ability and to each according to their needs seems totally reasonable except it has failed over and over because human nature keeps intervening.
Mr. Obama is a multi-millionaire, who stands among a crowd where each guest has paid $30,000 a plate to hear him bash rich people. He calls people on the dole the “middle class” and asks that the congress raise taxes on the group that already pays 86 percent of all the income taxes and asks them to “pay their fair share.” How much is their fair share? Ninety-nine percent? Or maybe we should confiscate all their wealth and then everyone would be truly equal: broke!
Children remaining on their parents’ policies to age 26 (26-year-olds are not children) just makes the parents’ policies more expensive. And calling Republicans liars seems hateful to me, but since I am not a republican, I am not offended. I am an American and a Christian, and I disagree with almost everything Cecile Powell articulated in the commentary supporting the Socialist position or is it the Democrat position? Frankly, I cannot tell the difference and haven’t been able to, since Harry Truman left office.
Wilton Jere Tidwell
Sun City resident
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Response to Cecile Powell letter
This is in response to Cecile Powell’s Oct. 24 letter that accused Republicans of lying about Obamacare and being against healthcare reform. She is wrong on both counts. Republicans are very much in favor of real healthcare reform and want to keep the good parts of Obamacare, like portability and coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
We would also like the law to include changes like tort reform, medical savings accounts, the ability to shop insurance across state lines, and more effective steps to eliminate Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Further, Americans should be allowed to keep their current health plans and the 40 million-plus people who don’t have health insurance should be enrolled in an expanded, upgraded Medicaid program.
The above ideas were proposed by Republicans and moderate Democrats before the Affordable Care Act was enacted. Now we are stuck with a law that does not include the most important reforms and is a costly, unworkable monstrosity. Most people who have struggled to sign up online have found that premiums and deductibles are much higher than what they are currently paying.
And whatever happened to Nancy Pelosi’s promise to fix the things that are wrong with the Affordable Care Act after it became law? If our representatives had read the bill, they would have discovered frightening things like Section 3403 that creates an independent board whose mission is to slash Medicare benefits in ways that will cause many physicians to stop treating seniors.
We are learning that we now have an unworkable train wreck that will evolve into a European-style, single-payer system that assures costly, mediocre healthcare for all. Unfortunately, it will take this experience to cause us to scrap Obamacare and enact comprehensive reforms that will restore the highest quality healthcare system in the world and make it available to all of our citizens.
Dick Stack
Neighborhood 25
