Dear Editor, In response to all those folks who feel that health
insurance reform is just another socialist giveaway for the lazy
and the whiners in our country, I suggest you all show your protest
by giving up all the government benefits you already have.
Time to deal with reality!
Dear Editor,
In response to all those folks who feel that health insurance reform is just another socialist giveaway for the lazy and the whiners in our country, I suggest you all show your protest by giving up all the government benefits you already have.
Return your social security check and Medicare coverage. Ask the government to take back your subsidy for agricultural goods. Give back the government subsidized water that Agribusiness Inc. receives. Return your unemployment insurance, roll back all the improvements the city’s redevelopment agency has completed so we can have dirt streets and mud huts and look more like Tijuana or Afghanistan. Tell FEMA to leave us alone in a disaster, we can handle it. Cancel your subsidized car and flood insurance. Pull your kids out of public school and place them in an a very affordable private school.
I am sure everyone can find a government sponsored plan that benefits them or their family.
All Americans are affected on a daily basis by federal, state,and local government. We’ve elected our government leaders to lead and make the hard decisions to keep our country together. We are all in this together.
That is reality. Deal with it, and have a great day!
Daniel J. Kenney, Morgan Hill
Congratulations on huge step toward affordable, quality health care
Dear Editor,
Congratulations to the United States Congress and to President Barack Obama for taking a major step toward affordable, quality health care for every American. Perhaps now the millions of dollars spent by health insurance companies to prevent change can be used to lower copays and premiums.
Frank Crosby, Morgan Hill
Catholic child sex scandals support atheism
Dear Editor,
I have a message for my believing friends and it’s something that believers should think about. As a realist who doesn’t believe in God I am often challenged to open my heart and let Jesus in. I am reluctant to do so without any evidence that God exists.
I am told that when one becomes a believer they have a personal relationship with God and God transforms you and you become one with the Lord. So from my point of view, I should be able to see the difference in the behavior of those who believe as compared to those who don’t believe. But I’m not seeing it. Especially in the latest news about the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church.
So let me be clear about this. If there is an omnipotent God and a person or a religious group has a personal relationship with God then you wouldn’t be raping children – period! The Catholic Church would not be covering up for those priests who are raping children. Admittedly, this doesn’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but it does prove that the Catholic Church does not have a personal relationship with an omnipotent God, because if they did this sort of thing simply would not occur.
As a member of the reality-based community, I am dedicated to believing in anything that is real. If God is real then I will believe. But how am I to determine if God is real and which of the thousands of religions is the true one? Turning to your Bible the standard is “You will know them by their fruits.” Clearly the Catholics have failed the “fruit test” because of the pervasive raping of children and the cover up by the Vatican.
As to the rest of religions and independent Christians, Muslims, or other believers, you aren’t going to convert Atheists unless you can show us that God actually has transformed your life in a way that is observable. Even if God can’t be observed directly, if you claim God has changed your life then those changes should be observable. And if these changes aren’t observable then we aren’t going to listen to what you have to say. If you are going to convert Atheists you are going to have to pass your “Fruit Test” to get our attention.
Marc Perkel, Gilroy
