Aug. 18 Letters to the Editor

Make an informed decision

I am dismayed by the number of people who are misinformed about the health-care reform bills currently under consideration by Congress. Rather that repeat what your “friend” said as the gospel truth (or some infomercial), why don’t you actually read HR 3200 and find out what it is all about.

While this is only one of about four bills pending in the Congress, it is one of the major ones, and one of the least expensive. Go to www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text. Then I suggest going to www.factcheck.org and finding out the truths and half truths that both sides of the argument are spouting.

Make an informed decision on your own without making a judgment based on a person, or group, that may have an agenda of their own.

Bruce Williamson

Kelso

Make a trade with Cuba

Having myself been run out of town by a blood-thirsty mob of Republicans, I know what Congressman Brian Baird means about brown shirts.

When Eleanor said we should provide a good medical care for all of our people, Republicans said she was a crazy old woman. When President Truman said about the same thing, Republicans said that was “creeping socialism.” Republicans hired Harry and Louise to tell us Clinton’s plan would not let us choose our witch-doctors.

We are now told that the Obama plan will not work because the square of the hypotenuse interferes with the co-secant of the pythagoras.

We should emulate some modern nation, like Cuba, which has a good medical plan. We could kidnap every last one of the physicians Castro has so carefully trained. In return, we could ship Cuba our Republicans, our insurance and drug executives, and the snobs who are afraid that poor folks might actually get something.

If the Cubans don’t give our refuse the right to choose their own witch-doctor, we can invade them when we get through with Afghanistan.

L.S. Wagle

Longview

What’s happened to our town?

I’m very sad and I’m very, very mad. Some nutcases have taken away my civil rights to have a meeting with my senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and Rep. Brian Baird.

Any town hall meeting is in danger of being cancelled because of these people.

What is happening to the town I was born into 71 years ago? What is happening to our beautiful country when a few maniacs can defeat our system of government by threatening to kill our congressional representatives and senators?

If anyone has an answer to my questions, I would like to see some letters to the editor explaining why this is the correct way to go.

Gloria Sanders

Kalama

Threats should inform Baird

So, Brian Baird is receiving death threats because of his stance on health-care reform. I’ll admit, that seems a little extreme; but it should tell him something. It should also remind Baird that he represents us.

Baird obviously isn’t conveying the will of his constituents. He should take this opportunity to change that. When he gets ready to vote on the matter, Baird should remember who he works for.

Baird should pay no mind to the death threats. It’s just talk, and Baird isn’t as important as he thinks he is.

David Douglas

Castle Rock

A domestic dilemma

We seem to have a dilemma in our household. I enjoy doing the crossword puzzle during breakfast, while my wife reads the comics. Increasingly, they are on opposite sides of the same page.

We have tried several ways to resolve this issue; they all have produced their own problems. We tried taping the comics to a piece of glass, allowing my wife to read them while I did the puzzle. The bacon grease smears on the glass and makes her reading difficult. We made copies of the on line puzzle and now our printer is out of ink. We invited a neighbor subscriber with the same problem to breakfast and asked them to bring their paper, only to find that the time cooking different breakfasts and arguing over the crossword puzzle lasted until lunch

A letter to the editor is a radical and desperate attempt at finding solutions to this problem prior to calling for a town hall meeting.

Russ Blanchette

Castle Rock