Is anybody out there?

Have you ever written to your Congressional representatives? Occasionally I have. What I always get back is a very clear message that bears no resemblance to the subject of my inquiry or comment. Hello? Is anybody home out there? They always thank me for my support, vote; and, offer assurances that they are working very hard (on vacation, at the golf course, or over lunch) in their constituents' behalfs.

John Barnett

Melbourne

More on conservatives vs. liberals

If liberals don't want to have their end-of-life extended by machines, they have to get around the laws conservatives pass to try to make sure they do.

If a liberal doesn't want to listen to an adult-themed radio announcer, they switch to another station. If a conservative doesn't want to listen, they petition the FCC to censor it so that no one can listen.

Liberals know that the Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law, and that includes homosexuals.

Conservatives want to amend the Constitution so that homosexuals can't have equal rights, because they don't like how homosexuals conduct their private lives.

Liberals think everyone has the right to practice any religion they choose, and they want the government to stay out of it.

Conservatives want Christian beliefs in public schools and in laws, because they feel their beliefs are the right ones.

Liberals think our rich, advanced country should be able to devise a system of health care all citizens can access. Conservatives don't.

Liberals have confidence in America's power to face threats, and don't just see other nations as enemies.

The Conservative response to a threat is force.

Liberals like to research facts and data and listen to experts debate.

Conservatives march in lock-step based on information from their preferred radio or TV show host. That's good enough for them.

Kathy Freeman

Melbourne

We are losing our country

Never in the history of our country did the president of the United States have the time to stick his nose into every political race in the country. Not enough to do, maybe. Influencing TV-sit-coms with health care messages, trying to influence Governors' races, trying to stop Joe Arpaio from enforcing illegal alien laws in Arizona, going after the chambers of commerce and probably the Shriners next. Having his lap dogs, Anita Dunn, Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod trying to bring down Fox News. Pushing Craig Becker as Labor Czar with his ACORN backed agenda and all his other baggage. What are you people thinking? Don't any of you get what is happening here?

We are losing our country piece by piece. Not a Christian nation, he tells the world. "In God We Trust" is what this nation was founded on and is on everything that defines who we are. Our founding fathers must be turning over in their graves that we are letting a tiny minority take away the rights of our Christian majority and that is because we allow the ACLU to go on destroying this country. When you have 87 percent who believe in God, then how is that tiny minority controlling the rest of us? Banning nativity scenes and our other Christmas scenes and the liberal courts coddling them.

If I hear one more Democrat make the remark that they inherited this mess after they controlled the Congress the last two years of the Bush Administration and caused 99 percent of this mess that they have added to and raised the deficit and have over 10 percent unemployment, I will scream. Nothing they have done worked and only made it much worse. In 2010 if you all don't vote this miserable congress all out and get rid of Nancy Pelosi and Gringy Harry, then you deserve what you get.

Barbra Bronsberg

Suntree