Don't mortgage our kids' futures

Have the American people become so enamored with and dependent on entitlements that we are willing to mortgage our children and grandchildren's future with Obama's health care plan? Because people refuse to study our history, are we doomed to repeat it?

Our grandparents probably thought Social Security was good for them and the future of their children. Yet look where we are today. Social Security is broke. Medicare is on the edge. These programs are laced with fraud and abuse. Young people cannot count on Social Security for the future, and the elderly are fearful each day that it will be cut or discontinued. Just a glimpse at the future of government health care.

Sixty percent of the federal budget is entitlement programs.

Now President Obama and the Democratic Congress want to add health care, and tell us it will not increase our debt. They want to add 30 million people, but it will not increase our debt. Everyone will be mandated to have insurance or pay a fine or go to jail.

Then there is Congressman Foster's view of this plan. As he stated in the Daily Herald March 1, "So a bunch of us are going to be asked in the coming weeks to hold their nose and vote for the Senate bill as flawed as it is." What a rousing endorsement of President Obama's health care plan.

Does he not like the "Cornhusker kickback," the Louisiana purchase or that the unions' Cadillac plans will not be taxed until 2018?

Best of all, the other taxes in this bill start immediately, but the benefits do not start until 2014. Do you trust the federal government to keep your money secure for four years?

Sherry Miksa

Big Rock