> Political Slant

> To the Editor:

> A radio turned to a conservative AM station was blaring as I entered a
> local grocery.  The male voice warned "elections do matter" as he
> chastised and demonized the Obama administration's record, all 12 months
> of it!

> I inquired to the clerk why that particular station always seemed to be on
> and why would one listen to political slant on a beautiful sunny
> afternoon? The clerk offered to be happy to listen to the "other side"
> (apparently a voice less shrill and misrepresentative) but the current
> channel was the only option.

> So much for the vast liberal media, I mused.

> Here is a part-time employee that probably does not have an employer
> health insurance option listening to a millionaire, mouthpiece for big
> pharm, big health insurance corporations misrepresenting our president's
> efforts to fix a broken system.  A health insurance scheme an increasing
> number of Americans cannot afford that provides huge profits of health
> insurance corporations as it administers most inefficiently!

> As I was leaving the loud radio insisted a reconciliation vote on the
> health bill was an Obama trap.

> Surely the voice remembers reconciliation has, in fact, been used for
> previous health reforms - and was used to push through both of the Bush
> tax cuts at a budget cost of $1.8 trillion, twice the bill for health
> reform.

> James P. Meyer
> S. Lake Leelanau Dr.
> Lake Leelanau