Now, how about Stimulus Money.

Should New Mexico tell the Federal Government to take back the $8.1 million being provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the runways at the Las Cruces Airport, or should we charge that to our grandchildren?

Your advice Mr. Pearce?

The government could not run the North Ranch when it took it over for non-payment of taxes; a bar and cathouse in Nevada that almost runs itself, and has always been a moneymaker. How can you now expect the government to run something as complex as Health Care and make it work.

Take a look at the mess Social Security and Medicare is in, and then ask yourself if they have the answers. They want to take away something that would be workable if taken out of the General Fund and allowed to stand on its own, without the legislature borrowing from it and never paying back the loans they take.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Health Care bill is not the problem. The problem stems from the ludicrous amounts of money awarded on lawsuits against hospitals and doctors for malpractice. Cap those awards, make them reasonable and the cost of health care will go down.

I agree with Steve Pearce, Teague should vote AGAINST the Obama Health Care bill, because it is a piece of garbage that will bankrupt our country and force millions of Americans into a system that is a trap, if it passes.

Teague can’t see the forest for the trees and neither can the Progressive Democrats in Congress. They are like sheep following a lead goat. Every time Obama, or Pelosi bleats, they follow. They can’t seem to think for themselves.

I would at least think that if one is going to make statements such as that “this bill amounts to a government takeover of health care”, or that passing it will cost the US money rather than improve our GNP, you would at least go to one of the many NEUTRAL news and analysis websites (not Glenn Beck or Faux) and actually read what it consists of. There are many, many important changes in this bill that will greatly help even those of you who were too lazy to do your research but who are facing your own personal health care crisis on the horizon.

When this bill passes, and you don’t end up in financial ruin in order to treat your cancer or a sudden heart attack because your health insurance company tried to deny your eligibility for coverage in some scheming, deceptive and cruel way, thank Democrats Who Passed the Bill.

When you walk into the Emergency Department waiting room and realize that the people there will actually be able to pay your hospital for their services rather than your county’s taxpayer funded Indigent Care program, thank Democrats Who Passed the Bill.

When you aren’t forced to direct all of your increased profits from your successful small business on health insurance premiums for your family or your employees (which are going through the roof) thank Democrats Who Passed the Bill.

When your elderly parents find they don’t have a “donut hole” of non-coverage for their pharmaceuticals just when they are diagnosed with COPD or diabetes, thank Democrats Who Passed the Bill.

When you can change jobs freely or move around the country to obtain better economic opportunity without the fear of not being able to find health insurance, thank Democrats Who Passed the Bill.

And those are just a few of the infinite number of scenarios the taxpayer will see a reduction in government spending on because people will have decent health insurance coverage they can afford. Hopefully, over the next few years, our nation will continue to refine and improve the healthcare system in this nation, but this is just a decent, realistic start.

People remain uninsured because they want to be…health insurance is amongst life’s basic decisions, you decide you want it or not and then you pay for it. No handouts and no namby pamby government should go around making sure everyone has a pot in which to urinate in. People (especially in this state) need to learn to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and not wait for Uncle Sam (financed by the people who actually do work) to give them a handout or a government forced umbrella or safety net.

Sure is one difference between these two boys: one respectful, listens, treats people right, the other one arrogant, hostile & know-it-all.

Can you imagine where REP Pearce would have told anyone to stick it if they dared give HIM orders? Gonna get fun!!

You’re editorial only confirms for me why you will never be re-elected: you merely mouth the talking points of the latest money-funding Republican lever-pullers.