representatives not rulers

It seems that many of you elected officials have forgotten your duty:
In 1787, we, the American people, chose not to be ruled, but to rule ourselves. We decide through elected citizens who represent our voice and our ideals! Lately, many of you officials are not listening to the people that you are supposed to represent. You are trying to convince us that you know what is good for us. Some of you have even come out and stated that you will vote against the position taken by your constituents if you believe it is in their best interest.
You people think you are our rulers not our representatives! You are not! We put you in office and we will remove you if you do not act in accordance with our will!
By definition to represent means to “act for or in behalf of”. Your job as a Congressperson or Senator is to represent the will of the majority of the people in your district. You will know what their will is by listening to what they tell you through email, phone calls, conversations and demonstrations. You were not elected to decide what is right for us, you were not chosen because you are better than us. You do not rule us rather you work for us!

Health care reform is not an all or nothing deal

President Obama has brought the health care debate back to the same old all or nothing argument he used to push his spending package. He insists that his plan is the only alternative by consistently leaping to what will happen if we “do nothing”. No one is saying that we do not need some type of health care reform, but the president and his supporters refuse to compromise. There have been many health care reform proposals over the last several years, which have been summarily dismissed. It seems that the democrats were waiting to have the power to put forth this type of government controlled program. This administration does not want health care reform as much as it wants this health care reform plan.
We do need to make changes to our health care insurance system but it should be done in steps, addressing specific issues individually. We cannot afford the huge sweeping changes proposed by the Obama administration, financially or ethically. This is not an all or nothing decision, but if I am forced to decide, I believe that we will be better off doing nothing than accepting this policy as it stands.