Speak up for freedom

To the editor:

I haven't written to you since October 2008.

You had a guest editorial earlier this year that said "maybe" 30,000 to 50,000 people showed up on Sept. 12 in Washington D.C. Indiana University was quoted as stating that was between 1 million and 1.5 million in attendance. My husband and I would have been there if I had not had appointments at the Cancer Center in Muncie.

Those citizens from all across the United States were there to protest the outrageous spending of the Congress, our freedoms being taken away, and to protest against the stimulus bill, health care reform and the U.S. cap and trade bill, which will raise our utilities by the thousands.

Then a panel from the White House has made suggestions that mammograms not start for women until the age of 50 and then only every other year.

President Obama has repeatedly said that we will have access to our doctors, no tax increases, no rationing of health service, and that there is nothing in the health care reform bill that supports those things.

When the bill passed the Senate on Christmas Eve, President Obama said that it was the greatest social reform for the U.S. since President Roosevelt. Note the words, "social reform." That language was in the bill - President Obama said last week someone "snuck it in" - but it is also in the stimulus package passed in February 2009.

The bill punishes doctors who do not use government e-records (less pay). Those records will be shared with more than 600,000 entities and does not allow patients the right to not have their information shared if they so chose.

Twila Brase, a registered nurse and head of the Citizens Council on Health Care, warns that allowing federal officials to definite "effective" care will lead to rationing.

Next, President Obama supports taxing the cost of our medical insurance policies. Those costs are not taxed now.

Back to why I haven't written in over a year.

I found out in January 2009 that I had breast cancer. Had a mammogram in Dec. 2007 that was clear. A mammogram in December 2008 showed I have invasive ductile cancer and it had already spread to the lymph nodes. I had a radical mastectomy in February 2009. I simply did not feel up to writing through that period of time.

Where would I have been under a government-run plan? Possibly dead by now. Check out how long you wait to see a doctor in Canada and the United Kingdom, where they have government-run medical care. Then how long to see a specialist, then further waits to get tests, then waiting list for surgery, etc. On top of all that the government may tell you that you are too old, the medicine to treat you is too expensive; just live your life out and wait to die. The treatment should be used for the young that have many more years to live than we do.

Coupled with all the social progressives in the White House and the Czars. We all need to stand up and be counted and take back our country as our forefathers did. Stop this nonsense and promise to vote all Senators and Representatives out of office that support taking away these freedoms one by one - and that means Republicans, Democrats, Independents, president, vice president, speakers of the House and Senate and all places down to local elections.

By the way, this plan of socialism has been going on in our country in some degree for almost a century. Check out all candidates and see if they are progressive socialists, and if they like Mao, Hitler and Stalin; in their own words, some of their favorite people.

I challenge our people all across the nation and Indiana to gather and protest these things openly. Let's get together soon.

Sue McBride

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