The U.S. health care system has problems but it is not broken. President Obama is creating a national health care insurance company to fix what isn't broken.

Supposedly this will not lead to nationalized health care and we will not have socialized medicine. These are President Obama's promises.

The cost estimates for President Obama's health care plan range from $630 billion to $1.5 trillion. This cost is on top of the massive deficit spending President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have already authorized.

The Democrats and Obama have created a terrible record in five short months! President Obama ordered the closing of Guantanamo without a plan. This has resulted in the U.S. paying Palau $200 million to take just 17 detainees. Bermuda has taken four. No other country has stepped forward, and the Democrats are refusing to fund the closure.

The economic stimulus package is another Democratic debacle. The stimulus package was rushed through with no understanding of what was in the bill. The American people were told if this massive spending was not passed, unemployment would reach 8 percent. It was crisis! Our unemployment is now at 9.4 percent and increasing, and only 5 percent of the stimulus money has been spent.

The Democrats are also responsible for the General Motors bailout. The Democrats have spent $50 billion and the taxpayers now own 60 percent of GM. President Obama appointed a 31-year-old law school dropout named Brian Deese to represent the taxpayers' interests! Mr. Deese has no work experience to speak of.

Can you put the health and welfare of you and your family in the hands of people who have demonstrated such incompetence? Please write your congressman about President Obama's national health care plans and the waste it will create.

David G. Brown, Augusta