Dear Senator(s), Have you lost your minds? I hope not 'cause if you go to a doctor's office you will find that you can only be treated with the blue pill, not the other pill, the red one, nor the yellow pill which would best cure the dementia. The blue pill will treat some of the symptoms so that you can find your way back to a comfy house seat but will not assist in clearing up thinking. Like the rest of us, you get to take the blue pill so that you will be well equipped to serve your country and consituents best. A few points the blue pill seems to blur which needs clarity; 1. TARP funding was not needed to bail out the banks in terms of recapitalizing their vaults. What was called for was to rewrite the loans of those who were over extended by lowering their payment schedule and extending the payment period. That would mean the banks would collect interest, albeit in a lower amount, but over a greater period of time. Thereby, a home owner could stay in their home instead of stock piling inventory of foreclosed properties. Additionally, the home owner, should his situation not improve, could sell the home at some future point in time without losing all the equity. I'd say that's called a win-win scenario which helps your constituents as well as the bank. 2. To add insult to injury, the guys who got us into this mess (as if they didn't have a clue as to what was going to unfold in the over-leveraged scenario) are rewarded in keeping the ill-gotten gains (g-d forbid those who made over $100 Mil derived from this mess ante up in the form of a repeal tax) AND are further rewarded, for example, like those earmarked to run Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. 3. In an effort to distract the general public while our healthcare system is being "changed", the President decides to have a beer with two squabbling men in Boston so that the "Farmer and the Cowboy" can be friends (a song from Oklahoma). I guess our head of state doesn't have much else better to do at the moment. Perhaps he needs the yellow pill too. 4. Quite frankly, I've worked hard for most of the years of my life to pay into a system that for years desperately needed to be capitalized, but was not, only to be told I can not receive the services for which I prepaid. Again, great going. Keep up the good work and enjoy the cushy seat while you still have use of it. I would check the springs 'cause it seems the leather seat cover is wearing thin. The "change" that's needed is not with the systems which worked for many years (which needed only to be adequately maintained) but rather our representatives who need to have the presence of mind to be able to balance out fairer treatment OF THE PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE in sensible ways. It starts with common sense; keep it simple stupid. Your devoted Fan, Mr. Had Nuff

P.S. I think it was the Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) who said, "Do you want to take the blue pill which will make you very big or the red pill which will make you very small".