A vote for the OBBB will harm Americans
To the Editor:
This is a letter I sent to Sen. Thom Tillis:
Because you had the courage to create and make that presentation to the Senate on what war criminals and enemies of freedom Putin and the Russian regime overall are, I hold out hope that you will vote against — or abstain from voting — for the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” or the Senate version of the House budget reconciliation bill with its sneak attack on our republic.
As you must know, to vote for it is to destroy U.S. courts’ authority and give nearly all power to the president. A vote for it would finish off our already-wounded balance of power. You would be effectively destroying the Constitution and what shred of the rule of law is left. You would be castrating yourself as a federal lawmaker.
I believe that you love the USA and understand the Constitution; therefore, you will vote against or abstain from voting for this evil bill.
You surely know that the pretexts for slashing Medicaid and Medicare are lies. You must know that over the next several years, this bill would cause the deaths of millions of babies and others living in poverty as well as the deaths of veterans receiving cancer treatment and counseling for PTSD. (And no, privatizing health care would cost even more than it already does. We see daily here in Western North Carolina the damage done to health care by giant corporations that have bought some of our hospitals. Profit, not patients’ health, is their goal). You would be closing the few hospitals we have left in our rural areas, including here in the counties west of Asheville and state-wide.
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You would be saying yes to the destruction of Creation by slashing the too-small budgets and staff of our national parks and national forests and allowing greedy anti-Christian corporations to rape nature for their own profits.
I imagine you and your family are facing death threats if you do not vote with Trump. I implore you to remind yourself of the alternative: if there is a hell, and surely you believe there is, a vote for this bill is so completely anti-Christian that it alone would condemn you to eternal torment. In my tiny rural farming community of western Kentucky and in Selma in the early 1960s, our conservative mainstream churches taught us to care for the Earth, to be good stewards of Creation. The current perverted cult of greed seems to believe only in Mammon.
Slow death from no healthcare, and slow death from gutted medical research and environmental research, when we could easily afford them by taxing the already obscenely rich, is still murder.
Think long and hard about this vote because the U.S. as a nation built on Christian principles will live or die because of your decision.
Mary Jane Curry
Waynesville
