Posted on 12/15/2009 7:27:31 AM PST by Salena Zito
In the predawn hours this morning, over 30 people loaded a chartered bus in a parking lot across from Ross Park Mall were seeing red and it had nothing to do with getting up before 3:00 a.m.
"We want to let Washington know that we are not going to let them pass legislation without them knowing how we feel," said Pam Smith of Evans City.
Smith was part of a group of grassroots activists and concerned citizens heading down to Washington, D.C., this morning to issue a "code red" alert to stop the health care overhaul legislation from advancing in the Senate.
Attendees were encouraged to wear red to emphasize their point.
With pressure mounting from the White House to pass a health care reform bill, people opposed to the cost, size and structure of the bill said they felt the need to let their voices be heard.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
No problem...They'll go back to the Medicare rules, change the age and change the rate that everyone pays into the system....
Makes for a bigger kitty to rob each year...and THAT'S the goal...not healthcare for all.
I so wish I could’ve gone this time too. For my part, I am visiting one of my Senators’ local office in my building - gillibrand. At least the last time I called, the person who answered was cordial to me. I give up on Schumer’s staff!
Unless they are armed and intend to use such ‘armory’ they are wasting their time...
REMEMBER The first four years of ObamaCare is to amass $$billions. Period. Free govt healthcare does not kick in til 2013.
Even stupid Dems know that, for them, it's curtains in 2010-12---unless massive voter fraud takes place. They need to buy votes, and are pulling out all the stops to get billions into the hands of their operatives---ACORN, SEIU, immigrant groups, and others.
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OBAMACARE UPDATE The US Senate may break their own rules-----and go against the will of the vast majority of US Citizens----to pass their health care bill.......by using the nuclear option.
Obama's healthcare gimmicks are legion:
(A) The first four years of ObamaCare is to amass $$billions. Period. Free govt healthcare does not kick in til 2013.
(B) Pushes much of the healthcare costs from the federal budget and onto the private sector by requiring individuals and employers to purchase health insurance....or pay a hefty fine or go to jail (only illegals are exempt from this provision).
(C) When the bills force somebody to pay $10,000 to the government, the Congressional Budget Office treats that as a tax.
(D) When the government hands that $10,000 to private insurers, the CBO counts that as government spending.
(E) But when the bills achieve the exact same outcome by forcing somebody to pay $10,000 directly to a private insurance company, it appears nowhere in the official CBO cost estimates — neither as federal revenues nor federal spending. That’s a sharp departure from how the CBO treated similar mandates in the Clinton health plan. And it hides maybe 60 percent of the legislation’s total costs.
The Obama Enron tricks have only one purpose: to accrue massive amounts of govt money into campaign accounts to elect/reelect Dems. That is the one and only reason to frantically push ObamaCare on a recalcitrant citizenry.
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Obama already has huge slush funds:
(a) 80% of the trillion dollar stim is unspent and under his control, being hoarded for Dem campaigns.
(b) June 9, 2009 Obama announced, "Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68B to taxpayers." Taxpayers assumed that would be returned to the general funds from whence it had come .......in order to pay down the debt. The truth, however, is that the money returned is finding new life as part of what amounts to a Treasury Dept-controlled slush fund.
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A major network commentator stated: “When a President’s poll numbers are this low in his first two years in office, his party usually loses 40+ seats in the House at mid-term elections”.
Ohaha has become very toxic......he is poisoning the chances of Dem candidates. 2009 gubernatorial elections in Va and NJ clipped the wings of Obama's plans for a permanent Democratic realignment.
Winning Repub candidates on NJ and Va (the only two 2009 statewide races) won Independents by a 2-1 margin, (66%-33% and 60%-30%, respectively); McCain lost Independents in each state to Obama a year earlier.
Were they carrying pitchforks by any chance?
From a friend, via email:
“RARTL Alert: Push for a vote on health care possible Thursday. Call now!
It seems to be a general agreement that a push will be made for a vote by Thursday for the healthcare ?reform? bill in the Senate. That means we need to place our calls immediately.
Message: Oppose cloture. (Cloture means ?stop the debate and start the vote.?) Vote against a healthcare bill that allows government payment for abortions in any way.
Who to call: Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.
When to call: Immediately.
Why now: President Obama wants the Senate bill passed before Christmas.
If you have another minute: Send information on this bill to pro-life family and friends in New York as well as other states. We must mobilize pro-lifers in order to kill this bill.
This massive bill contains many facets that are objectionable to many people. The longer the debate continues, the more people find out what is in it and the more people oppose it. It is to our advantage to have the debate continue so Americans become aware of what their elected representatives are supporting.”
How about M1A’s instead?
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