What a mess Congress and the President have gotten us into again. . .

I tried to send the below comments to President Obama, but his website limits our freedoms of speech and to petition the government to 2500 characters or less - he must have missed that day in Constitutional Law class too. Below is my full and unedited letter to the President regarding the improper behavior going on in D.C. at this time over the health care bill.

This mess of a bill that you and members of Congress call health care reform is a failure. Congress (both houses) has made an absolute mess of the whole thing. As an attorney, I could easily write a bill that would take up less than 20 pages that would provide that
1) insurance companies not exclude for pre-existing conditions;
2) insurance companies do not decline coverage for their insureds;
3) health insurance be sold across state lines; and
4) the approximately 15 million American citizens without insurance who need insurance either get covered under an expanded Medicare system, or get approximately $10,000 credit with which to buy insurance.

Not only would my bill be shorter and sweeter, it would cost the overburdened American taxpayer, 20 million of whom are unemployed or underemployed (I fall into the latter category), much less.

For the first time in my life I am happy that I was unable to have children - because this mess of a bill you are trying to ram down the collective throats of the American people will not only be a burden to present generations, but to future generations as well.

Kindly advise me - what similar "model" has the government actually managed to run, if not at a profit, at a break even point? United States Postal Service - deficit; Medicare - deficit; Medicaid - deficit; Social Security - deficit - it would have a lot more money if Congress and the White House would not have raided the "lock box" that it was supposed to have been; Amtrack - deficit. Why in the world should I trust you, Congress and the bureaucracies you will undoubtedly set up to handle the most important aspect of my life - indeed matters that could affect whether I live or die - with this mess of a bill? And why in the world have Student Loan provisions been inserted into this bill?

Let me tell you, my vote can not be bought and paid for by some large amount money given to the State of Connecticut to spend on the UCONN Health Center. From the perspective of an Independent voter (and we make up more than half the voters in the state of Connecticut), too many votes appear to have been bought and paid for on this bill with pork to various states. Not only that, your delaying of your previously planned trips (whether I agree with whether such trips are even necessary is another issue) in order to stay here to "strong-arm" Congressmen and the American people has nothing more than the appearance of bullying. And I will not be bullied and you cannot bully me. Such behavior in order to garner the votes this failure of a bill needs is not only immoral, and unethical, but it is disgusting, and we will have our say in November at the polls if you and Congress insist on ramming this mess of a bill through against the will of the American people.