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Published Monday, November 16, 2009 in Opinion

We need less government

I cannot understand -- considering television, computers, books and the many ways of gaining information -- how one can be intellectually and politically lazy. Especially now when common sense and a little knowledge of history could get us out of this mess we have allowed to develop in the U.S.

We are getting deeper into more trouble each day. Our government uses accounting methods not available to businesses and individuals. I understand unfunded liabilities to mean that if Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security were stopped today, no more people added, we would still owe $50 billion to provide for those now in the programs. If you ran your business this way you would have already failed.

In 2008 we paid $1.13 billion daily in interest. The debt is approaching $12 trillion, which will increase our daily interest to $1.25 billion. If the total current debt is divided by each working person, their personal debt is just over $60,000.

A poll found 40 percent of the doctors now practicing would retire if the government takeover of our health care system is completed. Adding more people with fewer doctors would insure the rationing of health care. President Obama's promises pertaining to health care in no way reflect any of the 1,100 pages Congress has published. The Senate has an entirely different bill. Who in Washington is qualified or legally authorized to force anything unconstitutional on the people they supposedly work for? They have failed to properly administer 90 percent of the programs they introduced, and now they want to take over health care.

Why is it only those who have worked for the government or been a recipient of some form of government welfare are in favor of more government while those who had their own business or worked in the private arena are fed up and want less government?

Keith Crosby

Newnan