It was particularly ironic that Kevin King, in his reply to my letter, stated that he didn’t understand the point of my letter. The WHOLE letter was my concern that President Obama’s supporters don’t understand what he is doing.

I read his letter over and over and found absolutely nothing to refute my contention that Obama supporters were ignorant of what the President wanted to do before the election and that they are every bit as ignorant now regarding what he is doing today. Zip, zero, nada.

Like you, I had many problems with President Bush. He signed spending bills with deficits, promoted an amnesty bill for illegal aliens, pushed the senior citizen prescriptions giveaway, would not build the border fence, and so on. But there is nothing either of us can do about him now. He is gone.

We can, however, do something about what is happening today. Just last week we burned up the phone lines to Washington and stopped the cap and trade bill.

I am guessing there were few Obama supporters who knew anything about the bill, much less any who were calling in to complain about this hoax.

And how many OB supporters knew that the bill would provide monthly cash energy refunds through direct deposit to compensate the poor for any reduced purchasing power? Yet another phase of President Obama’s redistribution of wealth.

Or that every home resale would require an energy audit that would look at the energy inefficiencies of your property? Minimum guidelines would be developed to determine pass or fail, and then the appropriate repairs or updates would have to be performed to bring your home up to standards before a sale.

President Obama wants to start a “public healthcare option” program. The biggest problem is how to pay for it.

How many Obama supporters know about unfunded promises for Social Security and Medicare that are currently, according to David Walker, comptroller general of the U.S., over $41 trillion? That includes $34 trillion for Medicare, over $7 trillion for Social Security.

Or that the price tag for Medicare prescription drugs is over $8 trillion?

How do we take on new programs when we do not have the money to pay for those we already have?

And if the government would run such a tight ship, how is it that currently the Medicare and Medicaid programs are broke and the veteran’s care is profoundly broken?

One other piece of information from Mr. King’s letter. He mentioned SCHIP. How many Obama supporters could not tell you what SCHIP is? It is a children’s health program. President Bush vetoed a Democratic-sponsored SCHIP bill in 2007 that would have allowed families making over $80,000 to have free healthcare for their “children” up to 30 years old.

That is not poor and those are not children, Mr. King.

I would bet that Mr. King did not know that political party support is rapidly decreasing because boatloads of us are fed up with party politics. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that in the last five months the percentage of Democrats dropped from 39 percent to 33 percent, the Republicans dropped from 26 percent to 22 percent, while independents rose from 30 percent to 39 percent.

I do not care, Mr. King, who the person is. I care about what the person is doing to my country and my liberty. Give it a try.

Bill Webster

Peachtree City, Ga.

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