Editor:

As the battle for an acceptable health care package wages on within the chambers of Capitol Hill, the true understanding of the needs for the masses are completely overshadowed by headstrong, partisan poppycock.

Those who strut the halls of Congress, patricians all, have absolutely no clue regarding the necessities of the plebeian majority for whom they claim to be representing.

The American state has obviously taken a Darwinian reversal into a traditional two class culture. The dream of an egalitarian American republic has all but digressed into an Old World European tradition of a "have and have-not" society. The wealthy (those in Congress) can no more know nor feel the destitution of the needy (the average American) than a blacksmith can instruct a sailor how to sail.

I must give a dose of credit to Barack Obama and his administration for at least attempting to rectify a health care system in shambles. His plan may not near perfection but neither does the very Constitution by which we are governed, yet through amendment and adaptation, it survives and functions.

May I merely suggest to those in their congressional comfort that with the fate of the innocent and powerless within their hands a plea is presented to place their egos and sophomoric team-sprited party politick aside and apply some common sense to achieve a concurrent conclusion for the benefit of those whom provide them with their prestigious positions. The people, their employers, are growing impatient with their pettiness.

PATRIK TROIANI, Jackson