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Thursday afternoon and evening, we experienced an act of nature that could not be avoided…well, it might have if our phone lines had been running through the surge protector, but it was-in the end-nature that shook this house, wiped one computer, two modems, and pretty much all access to the Internet. As luck would have it, the most temperamental of the computers survived the electrical charge that fried everything else, and it is that one computer that I use today-hooked to the slowest possible Internet connection imaginable. Before DSL my husband and I used this same connection unaware of how truly slow it was until we experienced the megabytes per second to be had with the newer connection. The point is that DSL is fantastic, but when it fails-the modem fried-the old standby dialup works; very much like the bills in consideration in the house and the senate today.

When government run programs perform smoothly, the wheels turn like greased lightening, the money goes out faster than the money comes in, the people who benefit praise the system while those that are lost (like our two computers) sit idly wondering how it all happened? When you live through the storm, realizing that it could have been worse (such as the lightening storm Thursday evening) you begin to appreciate the old ways. We are on the edge of a government disaster that would not have happened 50-years ago, because people had control of their lives and did not rely on the government to tell them what they needed. The old ways worked, the newer ways have involved massive spending, a deficit that cannot be paid off, and politicians that have forgotten what their jobs really are about. Like the power of the lightening that shook our house as if it were a rag doll, this government is shaking the nation in the same way.

Our DSL will be back up and running, but if not for the dialup service we retained for my husband’s office, we would still be without Internet service until Tuesday, possibly Wednesday, because the company that services our DSL no longer deals with the people. They have phone sessions that determine the line conditions, the DSL output, and the problem, and then prescribe a solution without ever really making human, or one-on-one contact. Our politicians in Washington D. C. cannot accept that the outpouring of people this summer, and again this weekend are representative of the American people, because they have held themselves in too high esteem-aloof and away from the people-and have forgotten what it was like to have a one-on-one contact with the people they serve. It’s time that lightening struck our senate so that they can truly appreciate what Health Care Reform should be, what it needs to be, before they assume a position of “all-knowing” care on our behalf.

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