Another loss of freedom

So the Senate and House are going to ram this health care bill down our throats with all the polls indicating the American people don't want any form of government health care. To those people who think this will help or fix health care you are living in a fantasy world. This is common sense stuff; just look at what the Democrats and Liberals are doing. They are getting another entitlement program and this is just the framework to implement more to this program down the road. Look at Social Security and Medicare and how evolved they have gotten and neither is saving money. They are both going broke and making more people dependent on government. If the Democrat Party really cared about health care then ask yourself why the taxes will start immediately after the bill is signed and why the so-called benefits don't start until 2013-2014?

Health care needs to be fixed but not in this manner, all this bill is doing is putting the Democrats in power and control. Ask yourself if this health care bill is so good and helpful then why are they buying votes, making deals and voting in the middle of the night. There isn't even a full bill in place to read or vote on all they are voting on is pieces of it. All this bill is going to do is put more government into your life, raise your taxes and make a cradle-to-grave society. Our founders didn't write the Constitution and Declaration of Independence for any part of government like this, they would be appalled about what is going on. The founders left England for government control issues like this. What the people need to do is read the two greatest documents we have and what is in them, and one very clear thing is limited government. This president's radical polices are going to change America in a direction we don't want to go. If you like big government move to a country that has it, we don't want it.

Curt Hanson

Parachute

What a caring bunch at Valley View

I would like to thank several individuals who assisted and aided my family and myself during a recent hospital stay at Valley View.

I want to thank the wonderful acute nurses for their excellence of care, Jamie, Gigi, Alice, Carol, Marianne, Joan and Sherry. And also Maureen Knuckols and her wonderful student nurses.

The Respiratory Therapy staff are extremely good at what they do. I love working with them.

Marty Gaither, our director and fearless leader, sets high standards that his staff is fully capable of achieving. Those outstanding individuals are Deb, Claudia, Kathy, Rebecca, Barb, Donna, David, Robert, Rob, Steve and JD.

I want to thank Patty Harris Chaplain and my friends at Threads of Love.

A special thanks goes out to my neighbors in Glenwood Park; Jan, Keith, Cora, John, Tammy, Leah, Kristen, John, Alice, Jim, Joe and Damie.

Lastly but not least, I want to thank my family.

Sincerely,

Jan Ward