While I do not basically disagree with Mr Jacobs on this, he did miss an opportunity. While voters did not get a chance to directly vote for all of those programs mentioned they did indirectly. Many in Congress, especially those that cause most of the problems, are reelected election after election for as many as 20, 30 and even 40 years. This was also an opportunity to point out the need for term limits - the other great cause advanced by Mr Jacobs. Thank you for your work, Paul.

I became a hospital controller in 1968 along with many other accountants. We used to joke that Medicare was the "accountant's right to work" law because most hospitals had to inrease their accounting staffs to deal with the additional record keeping and reports. Also, there were a number of physicians on staff that fought Medicare "tooth and nail" but admitted that they never received as much money previously. Why, because they were receiving payment for their services which were previously provided for free or accepted potatoes or other barter as payment.

How ironic that MoveOn.org used an e-mail to transmit its petition since use of e-mails is one of the causes, according to USPS, that service is declining. You would think that MoveOn.org would use the mail service to help bolster its concerns about the USPS or are they really concerned at all and merely trying to play politics?