State should change motto in wake of plan

If the state of Iowa doesn't reject Obamacare (government takeover of our health care), it is clear to me that the state motto, adopted in 1847, no longer applies and should be revised.

I suggest changing it from “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain” to “Our liberties they trashed and our rights we gave away.”

Debra Reiman

Mount Vernon

Polls prove people are behind health reform

One of the right wing's talking points against health care reform is that it denies the will of the people. They say most Americans don't want it. They repeat that bogus claim over and over, as though repetition will make it true. It's not.

A March 22 USA Today/Gallup national poll asked the question, “All in all, do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing that Congress passed this bill?”

Forty-nine percent of adults said it was a good thing, 40 percent said it was a bad thing and 11 percent were undecided.

And remember - a substantial number of people who disapprove of this bill do so because it doesn't go far enough. They wanted a public option.

Rob Costillo

Coralville