To the editor:

I would like to ask Rick Baker a few questions after his attack (Public Forum, June 6) on Mr. Simons’ May 23 Saturday Column. The United States has the greatest health care system in the world. How much is socialized medicine going to cost and how are they going to pay for it? We don’t have a health care crisis; we have an illegal alien crisis. The health care crisis has been manufactured.

Obama has already shown us that he is soft on terrorism, and now he is wanting to cut over a billion dollars from the missile defense. I bet North Korea will love that. How did Bush allow 9/11 to happen? Why did Bill Clinton let bin Laden go? Shouldn’t you be blaming Bill Clinton? Obama has doubled the deficit in four months that it has taken 232 years to accumulate and it will quadruple in 10 years.

Are you comfortable with tax cheats running the federal government? Do you like high taxes? Who can spend your money better, Mr. Baker, you or the federal government? At what point are the Democrats going to stop blaming Bush and start taking responsibility?

Finally, may I remind you change just for the sake of change is not progress. Not all changes are good, especially when they change the foundation that America was built on.