Letters to the Editor

All Lives Matter

Dear Editor,

I’m angry, disgusted, and disappointed in our political leaders over the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Not because black lives do not matter because they certainly do, but so do white lives, Hispanic lives, Asian lives, European lives, and mixed race lives. ALL LIVES MATTER! The lives of the unborn matter! But our wonderful pediatrician Gov. of Virginia is willing to have abortions at birth of a child! Where is his Hippocratic oath? That’s not a sometime oath, but rather a lifetime oath! I sincerely hope that anyone aborting a baby at birth is charged with murder, tried, convicted, and put away for life!
If I owned a professional sports team, I would immediately terminate the contract of anyone who knelt for “BLACK LIVES MATTER” only! The kneeling should Only be for “ALL LIVES MATTER”! 

When will our elected officials grow some “intestinal fortitude” and stand up and be counted? Do only the loudmouth, rabble rousing crowd count?

The wonderful, brilliant mayor of Richmond can order the removal of statues on Monument Avenue but he can’t do anything about the nightly gun violence in the city of Richmond! Why? Because he would have to criticize and try to change the culture of those doing the shooting and he doesn’t want to touch that!  Let’s be honest: reelection matters to all politicians!

Rev. Furman Joye

Prospect Virginia

Destroying Medical Care,

One Patient At a Time

Dear Editor,

Medical care in the U.S. is still the best in the world—but already slipping. To save it, it must be taken from the hands of Government and Corporate America, with which every medical professional recently queried, agrees! Back in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson rammed through Congress a series of “social” legislation, including Medicare and Medicaid; by that act he sounded the death knell on our humane, patient focused medical care. Most stake holders valiantly fought this unconstitutional and unconscionable takeover, but we lost. Johnson had lined up key players on Capitol Hill and Big Money K Street lobbyists. We The People in this and other power grabs hadn’t a chance. Since then there have been enormous advances in medicine, (all in spite of government) but the holistic, humane, individual patient element has suffered. 

Increasingly bureaucratic medicine treats patients as statistical units and objects to work on. Over stressed and caught up in often career threatening rules, professionals are bound in a tightening noose of rules and laws that limit their ability to maximize patient care.
Costs have soared as government hospitals like the University of Virginia have their own debtor’s courts to extract the last penny from spouses of the deceased. Under Obamacare, the Federal government now will jail any hospital employee who would dare give free treatment to a poor person except illegal aliens.
Government must be forced out of the medical business altogether or it will go the way of today’s failing government schools and universities.
Trump has at least begun the process no modern president has tried, of reducing absurd regulations, including joining with Secretary Carson in rooting out Obama’s assault on America’s growing suburbs in the name of “diversity” and “fairness” that would threaten the very possibility of home ownership for millions of Americans.  Mr. Trump must be re-elected to continue battling government overreach, restoring law and order, preserving our values and traditions, and empowering Americans to live the American dream in good health in a newly re-privatized, patient centered,  best in the  world medical community system.

Michael Smith

Chase City, Va.