Take our country back

This letter is in response to Sen. Jon Tester’s newsletter of Oct. 22 regarding Medicare advantage and the “so called” Affordable Health Care Act.

I think it is time for Sen. Tester to wake up and smell the socialism. The government is forcing insurance companies to raise their prices.

They cannot give lifetime benefits with no limit and coverage for pre-existing conditions without additional cost to them, which will necessitate passing it on to the consumer.

If he still believes that the so-called “Affordable Health Care Act” is better for Americans, he needs to brace himself because he is in for a rude awakening.

Of course, insurance companies look at their bottom line. That is what free enterprise and capitalism are about. That is also why most Americans shop their insurance and don’t buy the most expensive unless they are getting more for their money. We do that with most purchases we make.

We Americans are not stupid, which is the way our government is treating us these days, by telling us what is good for us and what we want and what we don’t want.

I, for one, am sick of hearing about the “big bad insurance companies” and am paying more attention to the “big bad government.” Believe me, I am not alone.

This president and this congress has awakened a sleeping giant. Complacency is fading quickly, and it is those who rule us who will be looking for jobs. Unfortunately, we cannot fire all of them at once, but we will do it as each of them come up for re-election.

Also unfortunately, a good deal of our members of Congress have gotten rich off of our money. I don’t believe I have heard of a member of Congress who has gone in without much money who hasn’t come out wealthy since the days of Harry Truman.

We now have a lot of fresh young people running for offices and looking to really improve our government without expanding government. As a matter of fact they want to make it smaller. They want to return the power to the people and to the states.

This is also happening right here in Montana with our state and local elections. We will elect many of them, and we will be watching them. If they don’t perform the way we expect them to, we will send them packing, and we are telling them that up front.

Many of us are reading and re-reading the Consti tution and the Declaration of Independence. We are noticing words such as “Our Creator” being left out of the Declaration of Independence when it is quoted by the President of the United States.

We are reading books, such as the “5000 Year Leap,” by W. Cleon Skousen, which is a book that lays out perfectly how our founders intended our government to function. We are passing these books down to our children and our grandchildren.

Complacency is a thing of the past. We want our country back, and we want our freedom back. It will take time but we will get them back.

Karen Morrell lives in Whitefish.