Strong government is necessary

Editor:

This is in response to Ed Mishou’s letter on Nov. 4. Mishou talks about how our Founding Fathers developed a system of checks and balances, and how these systems and balances have kept us stable for so long and deterred the abuse of power.

What Mr. Mishou does not state is that the Founding Fathers also gave the people the power to decide presidential elections and legislators, and if the power of the people was great enough, they could come together in consensus and vote one party in instead of another. What Mr. Mishou does not state in his letter is that within the Democratic Party there are separations between moderates and liberals, as there are in the Republican Party as well.

Mr. Mishou seems to think that there is a lopsided balance of power within this country. He is mistaken.

Where does it say in the Constitution that the government has the power to wiretap our phones? What about the Bill of Rights, the document that gives us the liberties he feels have been invaded by this current administration?

The reasons for forcing executives out of their positions is because they drove their companies into the toilet, and if we are going to be owning 70 percent of their company we will rebuild it the right way, so when we finally do sell all the shares we have invested in that company we can at least have confidence it will live on its own without anymore government assistance.

You want to talk salary caps? The president said that companies that received bailout money from taxpayers cannot receive money from taxpayers. Should taxpayers be bailing out companies that pay their executives more than $500,000 a year? Any company that receives bailout funds should have its executive pay profits slashed so they aren’t making millions. Why should we pay them more? So they can go and end up in the same thing that got them there in the first place?

I know what got them there, deregulation of the stock market by the lopsided government in favor of the Republican Party from 2000-2006.

He speaks of the legislative branch having the audacity to ignore majority community input regarding health? Is he talking about those nice little town hall protesters? Or perhaps the protesters who showed up to Barney Frank’s town hall meetings where they held Obama pictures with Hitler mustaches? Or that one protester who asked Sen. Barney Frank why he supported a health care bill that so closely represented Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews? These aren’t protesters, and by far not the majority, and I feel insulted that he would call them the majority of Americans. They are racist, uninformed bigots.

We do need to put this legislative train back on track by voting out more Republicans until they are ready to serve the people who elected them rather than health insurance lobbyists.

Where was the Republican Party on health insurance reform for the past eight years? Health insurance reform means insuring the uninsured, it does not mean tort reform. Tort reform wont fix this all by itself, it doesn’t take a high school student to know that.

James F. Kohn

San Benito

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