Letter to the editor: The ‘no’ message has been made loud and clear

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Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., blamed the biased media (which campaigns for Democrats, promotes their causes with misinformation and will not report truth about his Countrywide scandal) for our “ignorance” in not wanting government-run health care. President Barack Obama believes we will come around if we simply hear him read one more speech from his teleprompter. The American people have shouted a resounding “no” to socialized medicine. We have spoken.

We said “no” to paying for health insurance policies for those who don’t want to work or peruse a meaningful career on top of the free health care they already get. We said “no” to free health care for illegal immigrants.

We said “no” to killing jobs with tax hikes and employer mandates as the real unemployment rate nears Great Depression levels. We said “no” to the mother of all entitlement programs when we cannot afford the ones we already have. We said “no” to the bankrupt federal government spending more of our money and borrowing the rest from Communist China in our children’s names. Seniors said “no” to gutting Medicare.

We said “no” to government coming between us and our doctor, health care rationing and groveling at the feet of elected officials after we are given the death sentence and denied life-saving treatment. We said “no” to six-month waits to see a doctor with an additional six-month wait to begin life saving treatments. We said “no” to destroying the best health care system in the world.

We said “no” to denying our children the freedoms and opportunity that we enjoyed. We said “no” to serfdom, government-imposed poverty and European socialism.

What part of “no” do these people not understand? Perhaps they would understand a catchy phrase like “It’s about our freedom stupid.” The problem is your freedom is what they really want.

Brent McCarthy

Bismarck

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