Fix only what is broken

I just sent the following e-mail to Missouri's U.S. senators, Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill:I'm just a man from Missouri. I've raised my family and enjoy my grandchildren. My mother is still alive and lives with us. I am a manager at a company that pays well and has good benefits. My company serves small businesses. I try being as active as I can in my community, volunteering for United Way, participating in the local Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce and I am a trained ombudsman for the Area Agency on Aging. I guess what I'm saying is that I try to practice what I preach.

I don't understand what you are doing with the health care reform efforts. I am sensitive to the needs of others and fully understand how difficult it is for society to respond properly to those needs. For the life of me, I don't see how the two health care bills from the two houses of Congress respond much to any of the reform needed. Nor can I fathom how any of it can be paid for by any future generation. Please end politics as usual and lead our state and our citizens into the future bravely and strongly. Stop these bills, and then begin the process of fixing whatever you feel is broken one important challenge at a time. We need you to represent us. Give us reasons to vote for you.

RANDY DUNN, Oak Ridge