Posted on 07/17/2009 6:24:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama and the Democratic leadership are trying to ram a medical insurance bill through Congress in record speed, before anyone can get a good look at it. This 1,000-page monstrosity was released last Tuesday. The president wanted to see voting start by Thursday.
The House bill would increase federal spending, increase taxes, increase debt, increase health costs, increase unemployment, reduce wages, reduce American competitiveness and provide nothing to anyone until 2013.
The bill reminds me of Winston Churchill's line: "Never . . . was so much owed by so many to so few." Under this bill, the vast majority of Americans would owe a great deal throughout the foreseeable future — paid directly to the IRS or in kind — while a comparatively small number would benefit in a meaningful way.
Job Losses
The president's runaway-train approach is the same one he used with the economic "stimulus" package. On the very day the House health bill was released, newspapers reported the Treasury Department's announcement that we have amassed our first one-year deficit of $1 trillion — and we have accomplished this in just six months. If the $1.2 trillion House bill becomes law, that record likely won't last for long.
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Tell your congressman he’s gone in 2010 if he even THINKS about voting for this monstronsity.
There used to be something called the underground railway that let people escape from slavery. His new railway has the opposite purpose.
And any Senators up for reelection - same thing!
Runaway train is apt. If Republicans make big gains in 2010, can they keep the train from crashing?
Until one of us - and I am old enough not to give a damn - engages in civil disobedience and it catches fire; we will get nothing but more of the same.
Up to and just after April 15, we caught lightening in a bottle and we scared the bejeebers out of the ruling elite. Sadly, we let it go. July 4th went by with scarcely a snicker. Now, we are trying to repeat with a September show of strength. What then? Will we wait for January 1? Or April 15? Or the 12th of Never?
It is time to stop playing nice. Calling and writing to the princes and duchesses is a waste of time. They don't care and they don't listen. It is time to make their lives a living hell. Ethics complaints, FOIA requests, stop donations, disrupt their appearances, etc. Take your country back or enjoy your slavery.
I fear that these people are hell bent on destroying the current system and I don't mean just health care. It's getting really scary.
why threaten to vote them out? We just tell them, they are finished no matter what. They’ve done enough damage, are we really gonna let them keep their job even if they “see the light” and vote against Obamacare? ...regardless of party.
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My question is, “ When they get around to burning the Constitution will it be a private or a public ceremony?”
Ping!
Health care ping!!!
It is time to stop playing nice.
Agreed.
STOP holding these Tea Parties at State Capitols and Walmart Parking Lots and hold them in the FRONT yard of ALL US congressman and senators who vote for this crap.
When the media covers the event, make sure they get good coverage of our elected leader’s residences of luxury.
No, they’ll just slow it down a bit and pretend they actually accomplished something.
Thanks for the ping!
Tell them they have to gather their participants together. Have them divide the participants up into four equal groups. Each group will be sent to stand in front of every one of their local networks affiliates, NBC, ABC, CBS, & FOX, showing their signs and chanting “The Government's destroying America.” “The Government's destroying the Constitution.” “End the rush to Socialism.” “The Government's working for themselves, not us.”
We're going to make the local affiliates carry the story, which will, in turn, go out over the news wires. They will have to cover this story nationally. The number of people who form the picket lines will not matter: it's the message that will.
I heard on the radio there was an item on page 16 that bans private insurance.
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