The Constitution

I read the letters where the Constitution is used to make ones personal point, bent to fit their views. It is a good document in which our government should be run, but too many years have passed for it to now be absolute.

If we want to go back to that time in history then we must remember that many of the writers owned slaves. There were indebted persons and a poor house in which to be jailed. Women of the time were only good to have children and keep the house. The writers could not have foreseen all the advances that have been made in our country; if they could some of the text might have been written differently.

Change may be difficult for some of you but change can also be good. They certainly didn't need medical insurance back then; for those in need of affordable insurance this is a crucial matter. Let's go back to the Constitution and "Promote the General Welfare." Out of the supposedly happy 85 percent of Americans who have insurance, how many of those are on Medicare? That was a change hard fought.

The others don't even realize how they're being used by their insurance companies by over charging or that they're on a ledge, waiting to be denied services. Gov. Crist's Cover Florida Health Care solution to the problem is a joke; just call and see what is being offered.

The banks can charge whatever they want without intervention and OPEC has total control over our gas prices. This does not promote domestic tranquility as stated in the Constitution.

The ugliness on both sides of the fence needs to stop and our elected officials need to find the right answers for "We the people." Let's use the words of the Constitution for the betterment of all not just for a few, who wish to twist it for their own point of view.

Mary Cushman
Sebring