Sen. Harry Reid stated in an almost euphoric manner that the proposed U.S. health care plan would cost the nation $1.8 trillion. He acts as though a trillion dollars is simply a few million lumped together.

Allow me to put some scale on one trillion.

As we all know there are 60 seconds in one minute. A million seconds equates 11.5 days. A billion seconds equates to 31.7 years; and a trillion seconds is 31,700 years.

Now, think of that in terms of dollars and anyone can see why generations to come will be in debt forever if the national health care bill gets approved.

Congress should work on fixing the existing health care program while maintaining the great aspects already available. There is no need to create another government-run program that is destined to fail.

President Barack Obama’s proposed national health care system would destroy the nation. As Nikita Khrushchev said years ago, “The United States will destroy itself from within.”

Jerry and Debbie Blais, Lewiston