Posted on 03/16/2010 12:29:54 PM PDT by Boiling point
I just got called by the American Cancer Society urging me to send a message to congressman Bart Gordon, (6th district TN), in support of the health care bill. The caller started out by saying that the A.C.S. is a non partisan organization and is only interested in the health of cancer victims. After telling him I was opposed to the bill, he thanked me and hung up. If the A.C.S. is truly non-partisan, then what are they doing campaigning for Obama care? And as far as being interested in the welfare of cancer victims, I guess they don't think being enslaved and broke forever is an adverse condition. At least if health care passes, we ALL get to suffer right along with the cancer patient. If this an indication of the intellect of the management of the A.C.S., then I have serious doubts about their ability to manage donations.
Uh......excuse me, but the Death Care bill offers unlimited free abortions. What birthdays?
kittykat77-Seminar Poster-since Nov 26 , 2008.
Ah but there is a difference. The NRA collects money specifically to support and protect 2nd Amendment rights. Perhaps I was not aware but I was under the impression that the American Cancer Society used donations to support research and development of cancer treatments and drugs, not political activism. I could see them endorsing or opposing a bill specifically dealing with cancer, but I just feel it reeks of partisanship on such a broad bill, supported almost exclusively by Marxists, Socialists, Progressives and Liberals. I think I would feel differently if it truly was a bipartisan bill with equal support on both sides.
Do they have their own death wish? After Oboma Death Care passes, the elderly will be killed off, the very young will be killed, and the only people who will be left are the healthy. Why have the cancer society at all? Who are they going to be saving?
Cancer victims should just accept that their health is declining.
Isn’t that the stance of the Senate Majority Leader?
ACS phone number 1-800-227-2345
It's like Oboma said. Give them the blue pill. Game over. The American Cancer Society agrees with him, apparently.
Facilities like Dana Farber and Shriners Burns operate from private funding. I don’t believe ObamaCare allows for that.
Why does ACS want to lower cancer survival rates?
I’m sick of the so-called charities that solicit money from me, then use that money to lobby the government to take more money from me. I’m finished with them all except for the Salvation Army.
I really hope I get a call from them!
There is less money for new drugs, less money spent on new treatments, 70% worse survivability (or worse), and long waits for treatment. All of which is deadly.
Why on earth would these morons be for it?
“Lets pick a different issue. Suppose a Republican bill reversing the Brady Bill was up for a vote in Congress, and you received a call from the NRA urging you to call your congressmen in support of the bill. Is that partisan? Or is that just the NRA being what it is: an advocacy group?”
Don’t care whether it’s partisan or not. Never donating to them again. Just got off the phone with an ACS rep telling them that.
I suggest everyone use the link in your post to “tell their story” and let them know that they will not get a dime if Zerocare passes and that they are a bunch of idiots for supporting this.
Without cancer, they'd have no multimillion dollar business. They need cancer victims in order to stay alive themselves. The more cancer, the greater their donations.
Things are not always what they seem.
Never thought of it that way. They actually want people to suffer and die. Geez.
Guess they don’t want anymore donations. Ok.
The NRA is essentially an advocacy group for the Second Amendment to the Constitution. For reasons that disgust me, the Dems have made that a partisan issue, and in that sense the NRA is partisan. If I was a true-believer Dem who had no interest in the Constitution, I would stop supporting the NRA (or more likely never have started supporting them). Medical care and cancer research used to be non-partisan. The American Cancer Society has now chosen sides. Since they joined with the socialists on a purely partisan issue, they are no longer on my side. I've had cancer (fully recovered!) and lost friends to cancer, but the Constitution comes ahead of even this social issue. They crossed an unforgivable line by endorsing a terrible bill to help the Dems.
Just to be fair, let me tell you what I have found. The American Cancer Society IS a charity. BUT - The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is indeed an advocacy group. My problem with that is that they are under the same roof, and it makes it hard to tell the difference. Sort of like regular Muslims and explosive Muslims...
Link is here - go way down the page to see the difference between ACS and ACS CAN:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/accesstocare/content/Frequently_Asked_Questions.asp
“Its pointless for something to be cheap if you dont get that something in the end.”
Yeah, except that it won’t be cheap and we still won’t get it. Well, we’ll get it alright, just not how we’d like it.
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