‘Hook and by crook’

Last week, the president and his Democratic majority party in Congress finally crammed their health care bill down our throats. By hook and by crook, they got their way.

Our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves. Passage of this bill is not what they had in mind when our country was being formed. Our founders had principles and a great belief in God. They were real statesmen.

This is a sad time for our country. Lady Liberty took a serious body blow, and tears are streaming down her face. I pray that America will return to its Christian roots and that God will bless our country again.

John Cooper

Crawford

A bumpy ride

I travel daily on Highway 6 from Riesel to Waco. Not too long ago, two lanes were added heading northbound. However, the road is a disgrace. I’d like to know who did the construction so I can send them a bill for the auto repairs on my car’s suspension. I also have suffered crushed discs in my back.

If that same company is building the new Waco overpass, then that should be the best roller coaster in town. Does anyone else think that our tax dollars were well-spent on this project?

Joe Holomek

Riesel

Not so smart

Soon, smart meters will replace our old meters to measure electricity usage. Many residents in Copperas Cove, Killeen and Harker Heights say their electricity bills have doubled and even tripled due to smart meters.

These folks say the meters aren’t so smart at all. In fact, they charge that the meters often read inaccurately.

To determine whether it is inaccurate, why doesn’t the company install smart meters next to old meters for 90 to 180 days to measure if both rate the same readings?

I don’t understand why this change is necessary. And guess who pays for all these new smart ideas? If you know the answer, you’re smart, too.

Dana D. Phillips

Waco

Need a good lawyer?

It is so amazing that numerous attorneys advertise via TV promising to help those who are denied Social Security disability benefits. However, when I have called them, the persons who answer the phone have never let me speak with an actual attorney. I have always been told that the attorney cannot help me, even though I have been denied disability benefits.

I would like my day in court. So if there is a good lawyer in town who is willing to help me, would he please contact me?

R.O. Schroeder

Waco

No bleeping big deal

I concur with Bess Tucker’s March 28 letter that Vice President Joe Biden was a bit of a potty mouth in his recent remark that the passage of the health care bill was a bleeping big deal.

However, it seems those who say they had reverence for the office of vice president until his comment are quick to forget the unfortunate June 2004 salty utterance by then-Vice President Dick Cheney to U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., to “bleep yourself” following a Senate argument between the two.

Robert Snowden

Crawford