LETTERS: Health care, jobs and more

'Promote' doesn't mean 'provide'

The Constitution does state the government shall "promote the general welfare" . The key word is to promote, not provide, a health care system for all. In my view, "promote" means establishing laws that encourage competition among insurance companies.

Government has no business running health care. Take a look at Medicare and Social Security - both are headed for bankruptcy and there is no easy fix in sight.

Why is the premier of Canada's Newfoundland province seeking heart surgery in the United States? It is because the treatment he is seeking is not available in his province, but is available in our "primitive" system.

Alan W. Simon

Moriches

Leave private sector alone to create jobs

I agree with a recent letter writer that the private sector today cannot keep up . That's only because of super high regulations and taxes that the government levies on them. If the government lowered both, then the private sector would do what it has done every time government keeps its hands off - put more than enough people to work and make the government more than enough money.

Government does not produce wealth or income, as the private sector does. A government job is paid for by the private sector via taxes that it pays on profits. If there are less profits, there is less to collect taxes on. If most jobs are government jobs, where will the new money come from?

Bill Christofidis

New Hyde Park

American people were the 'party of no'

The party that said no to the domestic agenda of the president was the American people . They did not like the bills, and they definitely did not like the payoffs to the various Democratic senators and unions. And they understood who was behind the closed doors - the Democratic majority leader, the Democratic speaker, and the president. So before you brand Republicans as "implacably saying no to everything," perhaps you had better make clear that it was the voice of the people speaking and it happens that only one party was listening.

Paul Sheridan

Hicksville

Wheel-well rider shows security lapse

Well, the safety of passengers has been put to the test again. A passenger got on a Delta plane going to Japan, but got on another way - in the wheel well. So if he had a bomb, all of those passengers would not be here. How did he get into that wheel well? Someone is not doing their job. I think the flying public wants the answers.

Diane Duguid

Deer Park