I write to support the many readers who have lauded Rep. Virginia Foxx for her courageous vote against "Obamacare." If "Obamacare" passes, we will all have health insurance. How un-American. If "Obamacare" passes, people will actually get care for their cancer in time rather than waiting to the last minute for treatment so local folks can hold a bake sale or spaghetti dinner to pay for it. How socialist. If "Obamacare" passes, people can no longer be dropped from their insurance if they have a pre-existing condition. How fascist. If "Obamacare" passes, children will get the health care they need. Sounds communist to me.
In the end, the courageous Virginia Foxx is right. If these things happen, "Obamacare" will be a greater threat than terrorism. Everyone get out your teabags and hit the streets.
PETER SIAVELIS
Pfafftown
Must get in line
Shame on the writer of the Nov. 14 letter "Support for the elderly," who laments the fact that he, as a person over 65, must get in line for the H1N1 flu vaccine behind children and other high-risk people. He blames this on the totally inaccurate claim that health-care reform will include drastically reduced benefits to the elderly. Has he had his head in the sand during reports of dying children and the lower risk of older people who are much more likely to have a level of immunity to H1N1 without the vaccine?
How very selfish to want to get in line before the much more vulnerable. And how very absurd to thank Rep. Virginia Foxx for anything.
LYNDA McDANIEL
West Jefferson
Disagreement with Ehrich
It used to be that I looked forward to reading the religion section of the Journal on Saturday mornings. Now it has shrunk in content to include only a calendar of activities, a worship directory and, two or three times a month, Tom Ehrich's column. I admit, I've never been a fan of Ehrich and have often disagreed with his understanding of Christian faith and practice. I've always suspected that much of our disagreement stems from the difference in the way we each understand who Jesus is. That difference was confirmed in last Saturday's column "Know Jesus?"
In this column, he wrote of how, in major movements throughout history, we tend to focus on one leader in time while ignoring the labors of the many others involved over time. About this he's right, and had he quit there, we would have no disagreement. But unfortunately, he continued with what he called an example from Christian history.
He wrote that Jesus gave his ministry to his followers and urged them to spread his gospel by continuing his one-life-at-a-time ministry. Instead, according to Ehrich, they "reconfigured Jesus as a larger-than-life hero ..."
His followers made Jesus a larger-than-life hero? No. Jesus, by nature of who he is, is larger than life. Jesus, who from the beginning was with God and is God and through whom all things were made, is himself the very source of life. To say that his followers made him larger than life belittles the nature of Jesus.
DOUG JORDAN
Winston-Salem
Against average citizens
Rep. Virginia Foxx, like so many other representatives in Congress and senators like Richard Burr, continues to side with the health-care industry and against average citizens in health-care reform. Don't we all deserve to have as good a health-insurance plan as members of Congress? Doesn't she care that tens of thousands of Americans die each year from lack of health care, and that thousands go bankrupt? She and others continue to rake in the dollars in contributions from the special interests and speak untruths to scare people away from supporting real reform.
Since Rep. Foxx is against government-run health care, is she going to go after Medicare next? Since she is against the public option, is she against the health insurance offered to Congress? Or is she just a cynical hypocrite who, like Sen. Burr, couldn't care less about the rest of us as long as the money keeps coming her way?
RICHARD SWART
Dobson
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