MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN BUNKUM

does the Constitution say that I need to pay for everybody else's medicine?

No, I don't mean your constitution personally. That would just be too, too, well, personal.

To answer your question, nowhere in the nation's Constitution does it specify that you need to pay for anybody's medication.

Specifically, it was the Congress of these United States of America, and the President of these United States, who, respectively, voted the bill in, and signed the stupid thing.

In other blogs I have described how I fought tooth and fang to prohibit this bill getting off the ground, and then to have it repealed. Yes, I know it was wasted effort, but I had to do it.

Why did I have to do it? First answer: it was not good for the nation. Second answer: it was not good for the offspring of offspring 'way into the future. They, unless things change, will still be paying for your grandma's grandma's and grandpa's grandpa's prescription drugs.

Unfortunately it seems I was baring tooth and fang all alone.

The Senate voted it in by a couple of votes sometime in December, 2004 (I believe that was the year), and our inestimable President signed it into law the following month. So we had nice Thanksgiving and Christmas presents from our Government that year.

There may still be a few lawmakers out there who can be shamed into changing this law, but don't count on it. I can say honestly that I did my part.

Now, you could start belly-aching to your own U.S. lawmakers, and you could maybe get your friends to do the same. And write letters to the editor. I did all that. There just weren't enough of me before the problem became so obvious.

I have become a regular e-mailer to my Rep and both Senators. I'm lucky, though...all 3 are usually with me on the issues (Rep. Kay Granger, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Sen. John Cornyn). I'd go nuts if I had to deal with the Reps and Senators from 'round here (can you say Arlen S.P.E.C.T.R.E.?). Thank the Lord that I'm still a legal resident of TEXAS!

Glad to see that you keep your lawmakers in the loop, and glad, too, that you seem to have some reasonable ones. That is, they agree with you. Would that it were so in my own neck of the woods.

One of my Senators voted yes on the last immigration "reform" bill. He also voted yes on that stupid Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, for which you and your grandchildren will be stuck with unless things change radically.

Keep up the good work. And thanks for the comments.