Obama looking like carnival huckster
President Obama is looking more and more like an old-time carnival huckster to me.  He’s touting his miracle-cure carnival products, but the health care elixir he’s currently peddling looks and smells like swamp water.  While his mesmerized audiences wait for something substantive, he substitutes titillating rhetoric instead of facts. (Scam artists never give facts:  They build up frenzied emotional momentum by glib presentations, get your money, and run!)
Ask yourself some questions!  Are there really millions and millions of nameless, faceless uninsured victims who are daily being deprived of medical services?  Is our nation really dying by the droves because of inadequate, expensive and ruthlessly capitalistic medical care?  Before you mindlessly and instantly buy into “Doctor” Obama’s fear-inducing spiels, slow down and let rationale and common sense drag you back to reality.
A cursory perusal shows Obama’s health care plan is replete with immoral agendas and Orwellian regulations.  Even the Congressional Budget Office has come out with a warning that says this plan is dangerous to your health and to your financial welfare. Check it out yourself.
A carnival huckster is not interested in anyone’s welfare.  He’s just a showman pushing a product, and the word, “truth,” isn’t found anywhere in his vocabulary.  It’s all a house of cards, all smoke and mirrors.  Sadly, when you wake up and realize you’ve “been had,” the scammers have packed up and left town.  Guess who’s left to foot the bill?
GAIL SCHULTZ
Grand Junction
We should be proud of our health care reform
Because I am of the opinion that our country is desperately in need of change regarding the provision of health care to our citizens, I attended the Health Care Reform rally in Lincoln Park July 28. My husband and I are small business owners who feel morally obligated to pay the premiums of health insurance coverage for our 12 employees. We wish we could provide paid coverage for their families as well, but our existing monthly premium is already more than we can bear as a business. Every month we struggle to make the payment for a minimal coverage policy with large deductibles and co-pays that, at least, provides some help toward larger health problems.
A group of people in opposition to Health Care Reform was also gathered in Lincoln Park yesterday, in response to our grassroots rally. They were a rowdy crowd, so I looked over at them from time to time. I was amazed to see people carrying signs that said the United States provides the best health care in the world. Maybe I am naive to think that people might actually check out their facts before carrying such signs. All it takes is a quick read of any number of studies that have been done by the World Health Organization and others to know that the United States is far from being number one in the provision of quality health care, and the only competition the United States can currently win regarding health care is that we have most expensive health care system in the world. Not the best, but the most costly.
We can’t make things better by ignoring the facts, and we can’t make things better by acting like deer caught in the headlights of the health insurance industry. We must admit we have a corrupt system that puts dollars ahead of the lives of our families and work to change that system. I believe we can do this. And as an individual and a small business owner I will continue to work to achieve a universal and affordable health care system the United States can be proud of — one that will move us from the bottom of the rankings to, truly, the best in the world.
CYNDI CLARK
Grand Junction

Common sense is needed in regard to mercury
Where did mercury come from? It came from the ground. Now it’s a hazardous element in a capsule that no  one wants stored here.
On the other hand, the government wants us to buy light bulbs filled with mercury to use in our homes. It would be nice for our government to use common sense.
FRANCES MCKENZIE
Grand Junction

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