People are scared of Obamacare, but they are also angry
Re: “It’s Obama versus the American people,” March 22
Mark Hemingway writes that after the House’s vote on HR 3590, “many Americans are lying awake at night terrified of health care reform and thinking: He [Obama] might win this thing.”
Mr. Hemingway is right. People are scared of the harmful consequences of a law that pushes government further into their hospital rooms and already-shallow pockets. But Americans are doing more than lying in fear of the inevitable. They are fighting back.
Recent health care poll results are evidence of the dissatisfaction of a majority of Americans with the process and the solutions offered by Congress, but they are only the beginning. Voter anger and state legislative action portend the future of these animosities.
The people may be afraid, but they are also angry. If government officials listened to their constituents, they would find that the tables have turned, and they are the ones who should be afraid.
David Castrillon
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Park was popular before Fenty was elected
Re: “D.C. in her splendor,” March 22
It’s good to know Jonetta Rose Barras enjoys Kalorama Park. I’ve been enjoying it, too, for more than 15 years, and I can say that the popularity of the park has nothing to do with Mayor Fenty’s current legal imbroglio involving invested “political capital.”
The park has always brought out the diverse neighborhood community and has been consistently popular with local residents, thanks to the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Kalorama Citizens Association and the Fund for Kalorama Park, along with the many neighborhood volunteers.
Suzanne Meyer
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Democrats use health care to seize more power
Re: “Obama to sign health bill, take it on the road,” March 22
As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-8th District, no doubt sees the health care reform bill as mere giftwrap used to drape over the Democrats’ gift to themselves: more power over the lives of individuals.
Van Hollen’s Montgomery County district is a perfect microcosmic example of the monolithic control the Democrats yearn for nationally, with its bloated, self-satisfied bureaucrats dictating how individuals live their lives, unsustainable taxation eroding the tax base itself, and a behemoth public school system actively pushing socialized conformity.
The legislative director in Van Hollen’s office once deigned to discuss Obamacare with me and another constituent. He could barely conceal his disdain as we courteously asked a few questions. With Obamacare blatantly disposing of consent of the governed, neither Van Hollen nor his staff need ever again even pretend to listen to constituents like us.
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