I recently attended a rally organized by the Kitsap Chapter of We Surround Them in opposition to HR-676, the Universal Healthcare Bill.

I am opposed to universal healthcare on constitutional grounds. Healthcare is not one of the 17 powers granted to congress under Article II, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

The 10th Amendment to the Constitution than cedes the healthcare responsibility to the states and people.

I was awestruck by the organization and financing of the other side.

They arrived via several chartered buses, used mostly professionally made signs, and hired a band to play.

We, on the other hand, traveled at our own expense and made our own signs.

We are a grassroots organization, where it is obvious that they were an organization with a hidden agenda.

Planned Parenthood and the Socialist Workers Campaign were just two of the 200 groups represented.

Signs calling for a single-payer system were in both English and Spanish.

One of the guest speakers spoke in all Spanish. This should lead a rational person to wonder why our government should pay for those here illegally and why this group is being pandered to

Future citizens, perhaps?

MIKE SHARDELMAN

Bremerton