Write in David Brockert to replace Sen. Ron Johnson

Dear Mr. Brockert,   Thank you for your letter regarding healthcare reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).    Although it's far from perfect, I truly do believe we have the finest healthcare system in the world.   We need to preserve what works in our system and work to improve what does not.  Unfortunately, the new healthcare law does neither.  It is designed to lead to a government takeover of our entire healthcare system (1/6 of our entire economy).   I have no faith that the government has any capability of doing that effectively or efficiently.  If this law is fully implemented, it will result in rationing, lower the quality of care, and dramatically decrease medical innovation.  That is the inevitable result of government run, socialized medicine.   Unfortunately, the damage to the quality of our healthcare is only half the problem.   This law will also lead to tri...

Ms. Armacost, In reference to your article, “ Obamacare’s Mandate Jeopardizes Religious Liberty for all Denominations” ( http://www.wisconsinchristiannews.com/view.php?sid=3779 ). I am afraid I do not follow your logic. I, personally, think abortion is bad and do not know of anyone who disagrees. I just do not see how facilitating the healthcare for poor people or how providing insurance for employees with immoral coverage jeopardizes religious freedom. I understand that the insurance mandate makes it easier for some to obtain some healthcare they may not otherwise have and some of those healthcare choices may be objectionable to some institutions executives, but how does that make it so those institutions can not espouse their chosen religious moral code? To my mind explaining to others your religious code of ethics and that sort of stuff is religious freedom, not preventing others under your control from making choices. That religious institutions pay some portion of the ...

Here is an email from a conservative cousin: Here is the actual url http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-both-right-and-left-could-learn-nordic-countries-next-supermodel Check it out… Give me your feedback.. From: Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:35 PM To:   Subject: good reading *******, If you have a chance I urge you to get the February 2, 2013 edition of  The Economist. There is an extensive section on Scandinavian governments and economies.  I know you look to Sweden and Norway as  glowing examples of socialism and these articles have interesting perspectives. %%%%%%% and here is my answer: 03/31/13 Dear %%%%%%% Well I got the note from you to @#@#@#  about the Nordic countries. I read the article, but it was nothing new or strange. I guess that you object to the government policies in those countries because you perceive them as limiting freedoms or expensive, therefore tax i...

06/06/12 08:33:26 PM Politics and Economics Politics: the Art of how resources are shared (someone said the Aristotle said this). It really makes politics sound easy: whose gold is it? whose land is that? who has rights to the waterhole? Etc, etc. Economics is something else altogether. I do not have a succinct definition for it, but we all know it is the study of resources and how they effect society. Our national debt is one resource that is in the public eye because there is so much of it and controversy. Like the laws of the United States of America, there is not a definitive book or source of information about it. You know it is there and some have an idea of how much it is and how it accumulates, but just how much it is and who it is owed to is ambiguous. It is obvious what our national debt is for: to pay for stuff we want as dictated by our representatives in Congress. The politics comes in here: do we pay for a war? do we pay unemployment? do we pay for ...

Tea Party You know the Tea Party is right about our federal finances. It is sad but we are spending ourselves into a big hole. However their reasons, to my understanding is to make it so the rich do not have to pay taxes, you know the talking point is that then the rich can invest in American enterprise. I mean they do not want to stop wars for the security of our energy supplies nor the business friendly tax supported incentives no matter what. I am thinking of oil companies getting tax credits for drilling and exploration. I do not see these positions as being consistent with the notion that the federal government has to reign in it's spending. In fact I saw a graph showing various choices for reducing the deficit and the vast majority did not want to cut spending in any significant department and fifty-seven (57) per cent did not have any idea of how to reduce the deficit. We are in a depression muh like the one of the 1930's, only there we had fewer social s...

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Rape I must confess that I do not know anything about this subject. I am writing about it to create some comments and reiterate some well known observtions. Rape is horrible!! It is probably the worst crime that a person could commit. Murder is bad, but the victim does not have to live with the result (duh!!), their loved ones have to, but not the victim. The rape victim can never get it out of their head and their loved ones have to live with it as well. That could be a bit worse than the murder victim's loved ones because the loved ones do not get reminded by the presence of the victim of thier own inability to ptrotect the victim whenever they see them. I have read some stories that have some rapes in them. "Fair Game" by Fran Gabino has a description of a rape the wrtiter experienced in high school, as well as one from a friend's perspective; the other was from a science fiction story (I think it was "Redliners" by David Drake). T...