Who is looking out for we the people? Not politicians

Who is looking out for we the people? Not politicians
EDITOR:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Our leaders of today seem to have lost the meaning our wise and caring forefathers wrote in 1776. We the people are supposed to be vested with the power to ensure that no individual, party or agency of government exercises total control. We the people have absolutely no power whatever in today's government.
Our gasoline prices are out of sight, health care costs are beyond that, and energy costs are going to be skyrocketing this winter. Bush's buddies in Texas and Oklahoma are getting richer by the day with more to come.
France and Canada have national health care systems that seem to work much better than what we the people of the United States have. Yet our leaders of today are doing nothing to help we the people with health care and prescription costs. In England many years ago the people had Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor. Here, today, in the United States we have Robbing Hoods who are taking from the poor and giving it to the rich. The net national debt has risen to $7.9 trillion under Bush. The money for interest payments on the debt goes to investors in treasury bonds, such as the Chinese government. Foreigners now hold 46 percent of our Treasury's debt. Sen. Voinovich campaigned with his grandchildren by his side stating that he wanted to secure their future. Guess what -- his grandchildren and ours will be passing on that debt to their children.
I previously mentioned the leaders of today and we cannot forget Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Ted Kennedy has been in Congress forever and I can't name one bill he ever sponsored to help we the people. He is good at criticizing what others try to do however. John Kerry told us he knew what we needed to help we the people while he was campaigning but has had his mute button on since then. Maybe Ted and John could co-sponsor a bill to help we the people with rising costs particularly in the area of health care. This is perhaps the most pressing issue of we the people since they are now planning to raise Medicare monthly payments. A 13.2 percent increase what will drain even more money from the poor. Then with what is left they can buy gas for their car (maybe), and try to stay a little warm this winter.
So much for trying to promote the general welfare our wise and caring leaders in 1776 tried to establish.
GEORGE KESNER
Canfield
Judges rule by fiat
EDITOR:
Judicial activism is nullifying the will of the people and government by the people. In a republic such as ours, millions of people elect hundreds of legislators who pass laws and send them on to one elected governor or president, as the case may be. That one elected executive then signs the bill into law or vetoes it. That is democracy in action.
Someone once described a democratic government (with tongue in cheek) as two wolves and one lamb deciding what to have for lunch. Judicial activism is rampant in our nation these days. One unelected (appointed) federal judge sitting on the bench of a numbered circuit court has the singular power to declare a law unconstitutional and overturn the will of the people -- as expressed by their elected officials -- by mere fiat. Keeping with the above mentioned scenario, that is best described as one man, dressed in a black robe, and armed with a double barreled shotgun, shooting all three animals dead and having them for his dinner. I don't believe that the framers of the Constitution had that kind of activity in mind when they established the judicial branch of government.
CHARLES H. McGOWEN
Howland