by Greg Slack

Created on: March 09, 2010   Last Updated: March 10, 2010

Mr. President,

I am the father of three and an average man. A moment of your time if can spare it please? Thank you Mr. President...

I just wanted to bring a few suggestions to your attention if you don't mind. I will try and be brief as possible...

Could you look into giving Congress back the power to create our own money? We did this before and we showed to be very successful at it. In fact the Revolutionary War was fought for this right. When the King of England denied our Colonial scrip and demanded all taxes be paid in Crown money, it was the starting point of all our other grievances. Benjamin Franklin himself stated this was the primary cause of the Revolution many times.

“the refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution” –Benjamin Franklin

Our own currency created for our own needs, will free up vast amounts of resources and money currently paid to a private corporation. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned Bank and not a fully granted or recognized government institution. They have private investors and we pay them a fee plus interest on every dollar they make for us.

Whether their intentions be noble or not, paying them a fee to do what we did and can still do for ourselves is a terrible waste of money and resources that could best be used elsewhere.

In regards to health care reform, isn't your current bill and all other similar bills in contention or written as of yet, actually an attempt to reform health insurance and not necessarily health care? I mean all that your bill will do in essence is change who pays and how they do it, which in effect guarantees the debts of the citizenry to be paid by the government.

Why not take all that effort and commitment of time and resources, and commit them to actually doing something about health care policies and billing practices? I got a medical bill from when my daughter hurt her knee a few months ago. Itemized in the billing statement is a charge of $100.00 for use of the waiting room.

Wouldn't it seem more prudent to do something about that kind of billing practice than to try and guarantee the debt they gather with government funding? There is a billing code in the medical industry and that code is not commonly shared with those outside that industry.

Guaranteeing debt of the citizenry with tax dollars, against an

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