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Florida GOP Wants Voters to Reject Obama Health Care Law By Michael Peltier The News Service of Florida Florida voters will be asked in November to defy federal attempts to require Florida residents to carry health insurance under a proposed constitutional amendment that cleared its last legislative hurdle Thursday. In separate actions and following debate in both chambers, the House and Senate approved HJR 37, a joint resolution meant to nullify recent federal health care reforms if approved by voters in November, though opponents question whether the proposal will stand up in the courts. The House vote was 75-42. The...

We -and by “we” I mean hate filled conservative types- joked about the fact that as soon as OBAMACARE was signed into law the offices of doctors and hospitals would be inundated with people looking for their *free care*. Most Obama supporters we talked to didn’t care about the details of the bill and took any criticism that we made as pure partisan lies. Instead, resting on the lofty rhetoric of Barack Obama who proclaimed they had brought “heath care to all” while conveniently bushing aside the fine print...

People are starting to contact insurance companies asking how they can sign up for Obama’s free health care plan. Do you think they will freak out when they find out they have to pay for it, and if they don’t, the IRS will ensure they do?

I intend to chronicle the havoc and devastation Obamacare causes. If you are on facebook, I invite you to join the group "Life (Sucks) Under Obamacare." My hope is that it will be used as a reference and a reminder that big unconstitutional government is destructive. Please join! http://is.gd/b7A20

The White House’s chief business liaison defended the new health-care law against corporate complaints over its costs. White House senior adviser and business liaison Valerie Jarrett said Sunday that the more than $2 billion in writedowns announced by companies anticipating higher benefits costs “is nothing compared to the enormous financial benefits to those very same companies by health insurance reform.” Speaking on ABC News’s “This Week,” Jarrett said the administration is “taking a number of measures that will dramatically reduce the cost [to] business. So on balance, business will come out way ahead, and that was one of the president’s...

Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865. History 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. This is the text of the 13th Ammendment that abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude. Obamacare is not a tax because money is not being collected by the government, but the mandatory purchase clause of Obamacare does require an individual to, against their will, purchase products from a...

While Congress spent the last year debating how to provide health insurance for the uninsured, a little-known provision slipped into the heath care law that could cost some Americans upwards of $2,000 a year. The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the federal government's first long-term care insurance program. Here's how the program will work: -- The federal government will approach employers next year about alerting workers to the proposed deduction. -- The deduction will work on a sliding scale based on age. Younger workers will be charged less, older workers more....

The Right News received the following email which we feel represents a large portion of Americans attitudes at this time in our history.  One day, we just may wake up and find out that our country has been taken away by those in Washington. To: RightNews, From: A Concerned Citizen Now first off, I am not trying to incite violence. I do have a question though. Why are these politicians surprised when desperate stripped people fight back the only way they can. These politicians live in their ivory towers, surrounded by police, private security, and their teams of bulldog lawyers while...

Before I was a public servant I was a small-business owner, keeping the books in the Web-development firm my husband and I started. I crunched numbers, evaluated costs and always looked for solutions that combined good budgeting with good management. Every time we made a major business decision, we evaluated that decision on its own merit. That was the approach I brought to Congress a year and a half ago: weigh costs with results, and make decisions based on the facts, not politics. I know this has angered people on the left as well as the right. Frankly, I take...

(CNSNews.com) – As many as a dozen taxes in the new health care law violate President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 and on individuals earning less than $200,000. At least seven of these taxes directly affect health consumers regardless of income, such as the individual mandate to buy insurance, the employer mandate, the tanning tax, and limits and penalties on health savings accounts. In addition, Republicans argue that the tax impact of the law should include indirect taxes, such as the annual taxes on the health care sector that will be...

"I want to let people know that we hear you," she told WND. "We want this bill repealed, too, and we're not just going to roll over and accept Obamacare. We're not going to roll over and let Nancy Pelosi have her way because it was just a handful of Democrats leadership that pushed this bill onto the backs of 300 million Americans. We don't have to accept this.Now you can join nearly 15,000 Americans and 100 members of Congress in declaring your independence from Obamacare by signing Rep. Michele Bachmann's Declaration of Health Care Independence. While Bachmann explained that...

Sent to my Congress Dufus, Carolyn McCarthy, this morning. I just received a message from MoveOn.org asking me to thank you for your efforts on behalf of health care reform. We have already made the decision to relocate after our daughter graduates from high school. Thank you very much for reaffirming our decision. Enshrining the most perverse aspects of the current dysfunctional third-party payment system is not progress. Compelling citizens to engage in private commerce with the corrupt health insurance cartel is tyranny.

WASHINGTON — Here are the effective dates of major provisions of the health care overhaul legislation approved Sunday: WITHIN A YEAR - Would provide a $250 rebate this year to Medicare prescription drug beneficiaries whose initial benefits run out. 90 days after enactment: - Would provide immediate access to high-risk pools for people with no insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Six months after enactment: - Would bar insurers from denying people coverage when they get sick. - Would bar insurers from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. - Would bar insurers from imposing lifetime caps on coverage. - Would...

In the mid-1990s, I was living in Traverse City, Michigan, a beautiful resort town on the northwest side of the Lower Peninsula (the Mitten). It was during this time that I first heard of Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat who was running for re-election of our district in 1994. He won, but returned as a member of the minority Democrat party. For the first time in decades, Republicans had won majorities in both the House and Senate. Suddenly, a stunned Democratic Party was not calling the shots, and Democratic President Bill Clinton had lost his “rubber-stamp” Congress. He now had...

Picture from Mar 20,2010 Rally at the US Capital As is typical of our political elite who style themselves as heroes to the cause of the underprivileged we see in the current health care legislation the cumulation of their arrogance. The President wants to debate in terms of generalities and totally disregard for specifics of a bill that will without a doubt increase the burden of government debt and control over the health care of each and every citizen especially those citizens who are already "doing the right thing". If one is responsible and has health care and contributes to...

Hours before a scheduled vote on healthcare reform, Democratic leaders don't have the votes. The decisions of two Tennessee Democrats, Reps. John Tanner and Lincoln Davis, to vote no has put President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her lieutenants in a major bind. If every member votes, Democratic leaders can only afford 37 defections. According to The Hill's whip list, there are 39 Democrats planning to vote no. Furthermore, The Hill also has eight Democrats in the undecided/unclear column: Reps Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Paul Kanjorski (Pa.), Alan Mollohan (W.Va.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Mike Quigley (Ill.),...

Rep. Ron Kind and four other members of the moderate New Democrat Coalition met with President Barack Obama at the White House Thursday to press for additional changes to Medicare reimbursement formulas that they say would encourage quality over quantity in the country’s health care system. Kind, a La Crosse Democrat, said he and others in the group want to see the country “heading down the road to payment reform.” “We’re hoping to get more payment reform in the final version,” he said. The health care bill approved in the Senate contains language that Kind said would eventually reward physicians...

There is a lot of stuff here to read and think about.    I hope you can take time to look at this.   I, too believe we must be informed. I am sending this to lots of people.  Some people are actually taking time to read the proposed bill supported by the President and many in the Congress.  Here is something you ought to check out, even if you don't take the time to read the actual bill.  Whether you are republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, or independent, you ought to give some thought as to how much this will change America and your individual rights...

The health care reform bill is scheduled for a vote tomorrow. All indications are that the bill will pass. There are hundreds of reasons this is a bad bill and will destroy the lives of many Americans. I am attempting to expose just a few of the most egregious. The bottom line is this, and it is not debatable. There is simply no rational way for this bill to work. It cannot logically lower costs, and it cannot exist without lowering the quality of health care. The person who tells you otherwise is dishonest, or foolish. The math simply does...

House GOP whip Rep. Eric Cantor has sent out a brief memo outlining the health care vote count from the Republican perspective. The best way to look at it is not to ask whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gotten the 216 votes needed to pass the Democrats' national health care bill, but whether opponents have the votes to defeat it. Start with all 178 GOP lawmakers. (There have been rumors that Rep. Joseph Cao, who was the only Republican to vote for the health bill the first time, is wavering, but Cantor says Cao is a firm no.) Beginning the...