We, the Sheeple

Dear Congressman Schrader:


Thank you for the work you do for Oregon and for the United States.
Thursday's "Healthcare Summit" revealed several salient things about the Presidential agenda, chief among them is the utter disdain for consequences and accountability, and, secondarily, a total disregard for financial realities.

Medicare, the Federal Government's shining example of fiscal ingenuity, established in the mid-1960's is currently some $74,650,607,800,000 or more in the hole, due to "unfunded liabilities;" in laymans' terms, promises to retirees which will never be kept, even though we have been "prepaying" premiums for some 45 years.

The sacrosanct Social Security system, in place since the early 1940's, is doing slightly better, having "unfunded liabilities" of "only" $14,187,985,000.

Given the status of our existing total indebtedness to only these two bastions of Socialism, do you truly believe that it is prudent to add yet another layer of bureaucracy to the Federal government, and to institute yet another "entitlement" which somehow miraculously appeared in the Constitution in the past few years?

Bottom line? This "reform" bill is an out-and-out Ponzi scheme, driven largely by the massive ego of the current President, and wholly transparent to the vast majority of Americans as it intrudes nanny-state governance deeper into our lives than ever before.

Heed this: the supporters of "Obamacare" (or "Pelosicare" or "Democraticare" or whatever psuedonym you choose) will find themselves joining the ranks of the formerly employed come the November mid-term elections.

Even we "sheeple" know when enough is enough.