Same old tricks at play in reform effort

I read the transcript of President Obama’s March 3  speech on his new and improved health care bill, and read his Feb. 22 proposals. Probably all our presidents have lied, or omitted facts, when attempting to persuade us what a deal we’re getting if Bill X is signed into law. Such is the case here. President Obama, and Congress, is not being truthful.

HR 3200 went from 1700 pages, to 2200 pages, and now (HR3590) 2733 pages. I read version 2200. Anyone believing another 500 pages will improve an astoundingly taxpayer unfriendly bill resides in fantasyland. If a funeral lasts two hours instead of one, is the deceased any less dead?

You know, intuitively, that a 2000-plus-page bill is bad news. I believe that my President, and the vast majority of Congressmen, doesn’t care a whit about those of us who pay the taxes that support this den of liars and cheats.

It would do citizens well to read the Declaration of Independence, written by men profoundly more intelligent than those in DC at present. Its instructions as to how Americans should respond to a citizen-unfriendly government is as apropos today as in 1776.

I have never been more distrustful and disappointed in our Executive and Legislative branches. We will survive this power grab by an incompetent government. We the people hold the power to right the ship.

God bless America, and God bless our troops.

STEVE BRIXEN

Sandpoint