Spending

To the Editor:

While answering questions at his listening session May 3 in Plymouth, Sen. Russ Feingold continued to defend his votes for the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus bill and the health care bill called Obamacare.

In his defense of the health care bill, Feingold again stretched the truth beyond the breaking point. His statement that this bill will save us money was meant to con the naive. Anyone who pays attention knows that many businesses have been socked with additional pension costs that were written into the bill; that we are going to experience a large increase in our insurance bills in order to pay for the mandates required by the health care plan; and that some of the costs of the new plan are being shuffled to Medicare. Feingold is trying to deceive us by ignoring those facts and the fact that there has never been a major government program that does not grossly outspend the original estimate.

If you want to peer into the future to find out what happens when you rely heavily on the government, watch what happens in the country of Greece. There they have all of the socialist programs and spending in place that Feingold and President Barack Obama are so fond of. The Greeks can no longer afford the interest on their debt and will now, in order to become solvent, have to unravel the same spending programs that Feingold advocates for in this country. Just because we are the USA doesn’t mean we can do a better job of being socialists than the Greeks.

On a number of occasions Sen. Feingold was the 60th Senate vote that greased the skids of Obama’s out-of-control spending spree. For that we are all going to pay a dear price unless this country can somehow change course.

Dennis Gasper