Posted on 09/03/2009 7:21:54 PM PDT by altura
One of my liberal friends just posted the exact same thing on Facebook. I saw it as talking points right away and commented that “nobody should be forced to die because some bureaucrat in DC decided they were not worth the cost to keep them alive.”
No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
My comment on her post:
" That's a nice warm, fuzzy statement. So who should decide how much health care we each get? Who decides how much we each get to pay for it? "
Received the same post, verbatim, from a college professor friend. One would think that she would have used some innovation.
I like your's much better. I think I will post that...
Do it. I think we should let everyone know that we’re aware that they’ve received their marching orders.
At the beginning of August, President Obama wrote to the OFA community to challenge us to work hard, break through the noise and give the American people a voice in the fight for health insurance reform.
It wasn’t easy: With Congress back home, special interests and partisan attack groups went into overdrive spreading lies, and the media seemed to broadcast any story of conflict or division they could find.
But you accepted the President’s challenge — and delivered.
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Our strategy for the month was simple: engage the millions of individuals who know we need change to fight the lies and tell the truth, build support for reform, and ensure that support is highly visible while members of Congress are home gauging public opinion. We continued our methodical, battle-tested approach of volunteers reaching out online and offline in every part of the country. We offered the facts, answered questions and engaged those who were ready to get involved.
And the results were extraordinary. OFA supporters like you came together in an unprecedented way over the past four weeks — and it couldn’t have happened without the individual volunteers who make it all possible:
* Folks like Rebecca E. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who voted for the first time last year — and collected more than 1,800 health care declarations this summer. Across the country, we’ve collected more than 1 million signatures in support of the President’s core principles for health insurance reform.
* Supporters like Nita L. in Longmont, Colorado, who organized hundreds of supporters in her town to come with her to talk with their member of Congress about how much this fight means to them. They were among the more than 70,000 folks who showed up at 350 town halls — where supporters of reform at times outnumbered opponents by 10-1 — and volunteers who made 65,000 trips to local congressional offices.
* It’s the people who made more than 100,000 calls to Congress to thank representatives fighting for change — like Nancy T. in Hendersonville, North Carolina, who hosted a health care phone booth because, after her heart transplant, she knows that no American should have to choose between financial ruin and getting the care they need.
* It’s the 1,500 supporters who filled a local recreation center in Kansas City, Missouri, at a town hall meeting with Senator Claire McCaskill, and the 2,500 people who jammed the streets to hear from Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio — just two of the more than 4,000 events where folks gathered to show their support across all 50 states in August.
All of these signatures, calls, office drop-bys, conversations, gatherings, and town hall meetings, all of the late nights, homemade signs, long hours in the sun, and tireless volunteers who make it happen — totaling more than 1.5 million people who’ve taken part in this campaign for real reform — it all adds up to one incredible movement for change.
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As Congress returns to D.C. and we roll up our sleeves for the final push toward reform, we know the hardest work may yet lie ahead. The special interests and those in Congress who have pledged to oppose the President no matter what will stoop even lower in the weeks ahead.
But you should never doubt that we face the coming challenges together, as part of something far larger than any of us alone — and far stronger than the old broken politics that have preserved the status quo for long enough.
Our strategy is working. We are going to win this thing. Americans will finally get the health insurance reform we all need.
Thank you for making it possible,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Only email I have received from them today.
Did anyone notice on Fox news banner something about the H1n1 vaccine shot given to some children that died, but what was scary was it said they had previous health issues, epilepsy,cerebral palsy and something else. Obama health care bill no help for the very young or old and children with disease who would drain the system.
I got the EXACT SAME QUOTE on my facebook page, from a liberal relative.
No one should die because they cannot afford taxes, and no one should go broke because they get taxed.
My sister just posted that on her facebook.
Interesting to find out it wasn’t an original thought.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I GOT THIS MORNING. FROM A DEMOCRAT WHO IS ACTIVE IN MAINE POLITICS.
I got that exact message too from someone.
Me too.
So obvious...from two different liberal cousins. One from my husbands side, one from mine. Same message — but they don’t know each other. Coincidence....I don’t think so!
How about “No one should die because they can’t afford to donate to Obama’s campaign...”
Just went to my facebook page, and there are now TWO people quoting this, so I copied your Reagan quote. Thanks for that.
This is a lie... anyone including illegals can get health care free at any Public Hospital... as long as they make the smallest of payments on a negotiated down bill... they will get the health care and not go “broke. Levin covered this almost three weeks ago when he predicted this would become their attack. So typical and so disprovable.
LLS
Received the exact same post from the daughter of a cousin. I ignored it but I now find it appalling that it was likely posted from a directive by this disgusting Admin.
I just posted that on my wall. Thanks for sharing!
Received one so far...
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