Email to Senator Lugar

Dear Senator Lugar:

Did I understand your email correctly, that since our country is so bad off financially, your proposal is to do nothing about health care?

The reason our country is in such dire straights financially is that our Congressmen and Senators allowed the free market to go wild. They essentially did nothing. They made loan derivatives possible by overriding President Clinton's veto and the out of control irresponsibility and greed that followed brought our financial institutions to their knees. We even went to war with Iraq and what did our Senators do? They jumped on the war bandwagon which further drove our country into financial ruin lost thousands of our soldier’s lives and accomplished nothing. We now have a heath care dilemma which causes our factories to be noncompetitive, drives up our country debt, causes people to die by the tens of thousands, and is a basic reason why over 60% of our countrymen loose their homes while some senators do nothing but collect or have collected millions for the health insurers. Your idea to do nothing while our country suffers is a poor and pathetic excuse especially when the public option will save the tax dollar, reduce how much we pay individually and even allow every citizen in this country to have heath care. Do not expect the American public to buy your defective reasoning for doing nothing about health care. I know I do not!