CONG. PETER ROSKAM'S JULY, 2009 REPORT CARD ON MIDDLE EAST WARS
August 16, 2009
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
At first glance, your “Medi-Fraud Alert” blog on your Congressional website is a good thing. Every American should welcome the identification and rooting out of fraud in government spending on a local, state and national level.
Unfortunately, the underlying truth behind this blog is its goal of derailing the administration’s health care reform measure, as you explicitly pointed out in your Chicago Sun Times op ed piece, “Medicare fraud proves Fed run health care won’t work”.
Sir, I have two questions for you regarding this piece and your new blog. First, if there is so much fraud in Medicare, prompting your call to prevent health insurance reform for all Americans, why don’t you just call for the abolishment of Medicare entirely? Could it be that such a logical step would prompt revolt against you from your 60% favorable voter constituency? If medicare fraud is so pervasive and pernicious to our economy, maybe you and your extended family should opt out of it to show your commitment to its demise.
Second, why is it that you are compelled to highlight the fraud in a governmental program which has provided its intended benefits of greater longevity and functionality to its tens of millions recipients these past 44 years, when you utter not a syllable of complaint against the tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud committed in the prosecution of our fairy tale wars in the Middle East that have created several million dead, fled and injured Muslims and Christians there, as well as over a hundred thousand American casualties, including 4,500 dead? Could it be that the war party would excommunicate you from the support they give you in return for your support for their mis-deeds?
Sir, you need to spend a tad more time actually trying to promote good health care for the nearly fifty million Americans who may as well be living in a third world country they way the private sector shuts them out of our wonderful medical resources, and a lot less time supporting military enterprises which are destroying the health care system of an entire region.
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn, IL
Congressman Peter Roskam
150 S. Bloomingdale Road, Suite 200
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Dear Congressman Roskam,
At first glance, your “Medi-Fraud Alert” blog on your Congressional website is a good thing. Every American should welcome the identification and rooting out of fraud in government spending on a local, state and national level.
Unfortunately, the underlying truth behind this blog is its goal of derailing the administration’s health care reform measure, as you explicitly pointed out in your Chicago Sun Times op ed piece, “Medicare fraud proves Fed run health care won’t work”.
Sir, I have two questions for you regarding this piece and your new blog. First, if there is so much fraud in Medicare, prompting your call to prevent health insurance reform for all Americans, why don’t you just call for the abolishment of Medicare entirely? Could it be that such a logical step would prompt revolt against you from your 60% favorable voter constituency? If medicare fraud is so pervasive and pernicious to our economy, maybe you and your extended family should opt out of it to show your commitment to its demise.
Second, why is it that you are compelled to highlight the fraud in a governmental program which has provided its intended benefits of greater longevity and functionality to its tens of millions recipients these past 44 years, when you utter not a syllable of complaint against the tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud committed in the prosecution of our fairy tale wars in the Middle East that have created several million dead, fled and injured Muslims and Christians there, as well as over a hundred thousand American casualties, including 4,500 dead? Could it be that the war party would excommunicate you from the support they give you in return for your support for their mis-deeds?
Sir, you need to spend a tad more time actually trying to promote good health care for the nearly fifty million Americans who may as well be living in a third world country they way the private sector shuts them out of our wonderful medical resources, and a lot less time supporting military enterprises which are destroying the health care system of an entire region.
Respectfully,
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn, IL
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