Do not count me among those who believe U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson’s vote in support of eviscerating the best health care system in the world was honorable. The health care legislation under consideration by Congress is thoroughly saturated with deliberate lies and deception.

Only those who live in an intellectual vacuum would make the claim that spending much more than a trillion dollars on a new government program will result in less costly and improved health care.

Only those who live in the insular world of the U.S. Congress would cut $500 billion from the Medicare program and claim that health care for seniors will not be rationed. Only a dishonest president would propose huge tax increases on the health insurance industry and refuse to admit that those taxes are passed directly to every American who pay for health premiums.

I have not even scratched the surface regarding the multitude of reasons why this socialist legislation is rotten to the core, but after closely following the debate from its inception, it is increasingly clear that the Emperor in the White House has no clothes. 

Robert Peters

Vicksburg