Branches must focus on their own powers

This is a constitutional issue, not a health care issue.

Perhaps the most important principle of the U.S. Constitution is the separation of powers of the three branches of government - legislative to make the laws, judicial to interpret them and executive to sign and enforce them.

We have already seen the judicial try to make laws instead of interpreting them such as destroying the definition of marriage. We are now seeing the executive taking over the making of laws to give the executive the most massive power it has ever had.

It is like handing over 90 percent of the power to the executive, leaving only 10 percent to the legislative and judicial.

The executive's Attorney General is usurping the power of the judicial by giving terrorist war combatants the same rights as citizens. The EPA is declaring the CO2 we breath out as a "dangerous" gas. And now the executive is twisting the arms of the legislative through bribes to direct the passage of the most drastic handing over of power from the legislative through the health care bill, read the $300 million bribe to the Louisiana Congresswoman to buy her vote.

I'm sick and tired of seeing all the rhetoric about the health care bills. The real issue is not all the nuances within the bill; it is turning over the most power to the executive branch than it has ever had. The administration is taking over not only another one-sixth of the economy, but implementing the most socialistic policies and decisions that would have the founding fathers aghast.

The Congress is fast becoming irrelevant when government run health care is rammed down our throats, to be formulated and run by the executive Marxist-communist-socialist leaning officials, many of whom come from far left professorial backgrounds.

Dave Souders

Arlington Heights