If you can't be there in person, pass the info along to some others who you think might be interested and/or able to go. :)
Make a House Call on Congress on November 5th and Stop the Government Take Over of Health Care!
November 5th, 2009
Democrat leadership in the House wants to pass a government run health care bill before Veteran's Day, and it's up to us to make sure this prescription for socialized medicine doesn't pass.
If you can come to Washington to look your Member straight in the eye and tell them to keep their hands off your heatlh care, do it. If you can't make it to Washington, go to your Member's district office. And, if you can't do that at least call and email.
Also, Americans for Prosperity is organizing a House Call to legislators district offices on Thursday at noon, and I encourage you to check out their website at www.americansforprosperity.org to see how you can take part in their efforts if you can't make it to D.C.
Thanks so much and let's keep up the fight!
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Michele Bachmann announced that she will be on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington DC on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at noon to confront Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress. She is asking for other concerned Americans to come to Washington DC next week to protest this socialist bill being forced on the American public. She stated that many Democrats are on the fence and need to hear from their constituents. Read more here.
On this page, tmedlin says:
Rep Bachmann is holding a press conference on the steps of the Capitol on Thursday Nov. 5th at noon. She has asked patriots from across the country to join her there. After the press conference, we will hit the halls of the House and Senate office buildings to see our representatives, face-to-face and remind them that we are paying attention and are disgusted with what we are seeing coming out of these backroom bills on Healthcare Reform.
It's short notice, no doubt. But I've got people lining up from all over NC ready to take a "sick day" to fight the takeover of our healthcare by the government. Each day, I get more volunteers to drive. Some areas are planning bus trips. We have room for 2 dozen more people, right now, coming out of Raleigh. Asheville and Charlotte are trying to make arrangements.
PLEASE, contact your tea party groups, your 9-12 groups, everyone you can. Ask them to come. The more, the better. Be able to look at your kids and your grandkids and tell them that you did eveery thing possible to save their freedom.
For more info about NC plans, go to www.ncfreedom.us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8_XcSHHxDk
Bus Trip to DC to join Rep Michele Bachmann on the Capitol Steps Nov 5
The battle to prevent President Obama and Congress's misguided healthcare reform resumes! We must pull out all the stops for the next couple of weeks to fight this. There are several things being planned.
Rep Michele Bachmann warned that the healthcare bill being released in the House is the "crown jewel of Socialism" which will result in 5.5 million jobs being lost. See http://www.youtube.co...
She is holding a press conference on the steps of the Capitol on Thursday, Nov 5 at noon. Then she will be asking all those who can make it, to walk the halls of Congress with her and implore on the politicians there to stop this deficit-ballooning legislation.
Several of you have asked if we could coordinate a bus to DC to join Rep Bachmann. I am pleased to announce that we are negotiating a bus trip to do just that. The cost will be only $135 per person in total! No need to book an expensive hotel! The bus leaves Brandon Mall at 6pm on Wednesday, Nov 4 and should arrive at the Capitol at 9am on Nov 5. The return trip departs DC at 8pm. Read more here.
Related:
Last Minute Meetup for those who Can Get There - Walk through Halls of Congress with Michele Bachman
House Call on Congress - MeetUp with Michele Bachman - Thursday November 2, 2009 - Can you Come? (flagged for some reason)
John Voight, Mark Levin, Michele and You? Bring the Town Hall to Washington, Thursday High Noon
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I don't see any objection to regulating Airline pilots and truck drivers, so why do you object to regulating medical insurance providers?
Apparently we do have a problem, as you state.
But while that problem is quite severe for some people (don't think I have no experience with it just because I may sound clinical or detached ... my own children .. well, nevermind); anyway, while it is quite severe for some people, for most people the problem does not seem severe enough for a foundational transformation such as will be ushered in by passage of this bill.
In light of the economic situation, other spending bills and changes that have been made .. and others in the planning stage from this admin --- this bill is unwise in any of it's most recent incarnations, much less in it's present form.
Let me use a general example I've used before. ... If you had a paper cut and the doctor told you he was cutting your arm off in order to stave off more paper cuts, and he had already convinced 3 other people to hold you down while he did it, would you cheer him and his buds on?
Or would you run as fast and as far away from him and his buds as you could? I of course would do a Road Runner because I definitely think there is room for disagreement there on how much or even if the arm needs to come off in order to make sure the fingers are safe from paper cuts. I think there is a better way to take care of papercuts, broken fingers, and even an amputated finger than by chopping off the whole arm.
You may not agree with my view of the situation but that is my view nonetheless. Does that help you see my pov? I don't mean does that help you agree with my pov; I mean does it help you understand a little better why I am against this bill?
Karl Leuba Nov 3, 2009, 12:36pm EST
We have privately run health care right now, and millions of us are not being served. For some of us that is a choice, but for many it is a result of corporate decisions about who may and who may not have insurance coverage. For others it's a simple matter of money. To much cost and not enough money to pay for coverage. Those who do pay, and don't get sick or injured are just tossing money into the system providing profits at record levels for companies that consider money more valuable than life. SO, what is the objection to having a government govern such a vital industry.
I don't see any objection to regulating Airline pilots and truck drivers, so why do you object to regulating medical insurance providers?
That is a public option .... and it is how it should work. the very simple reason is this. YOU and every other WORKING American contributes as much to the welfare of this country as any one.
I made a living delivering vegetables to Michigan and Plumbing supplies to Arizona for years. That job was every bit as much a contribution to the welfare and safety of the USA as the years I spent in uniform and on call as a reservist.
Every Man in the US is required to register for the draft at age 18. There may be no draft at the moment, but that list of names is a starting place if, like Afghanistan or Iraq, we ever need to provide a fighting force in a hurry.
Tell me how it can be argued that those registered men are not in a reserve force. The Republicans released a Health Care Reform Plan yesterday. It is pretty long, and I have only started reading it, but title one seems to provide for a totally unfunded public option administered under federal mandate by the various states. It's a good Idea...AS SOON AS THE MANDATE IS FUNDED. To do it either the States will have to increase revenue with taxes, or some other mechanism, or the Federal government will have to PROVIDE THE MONEY. It is so much like No Child Left Behind in that regard it's terrifying.
If you are willing to support a minimum wage that will ALLOW workers to pay their own insurance I will offer up a strong support to your proposal. Thirty dollars an hour seems about right.
On the other hand, for example, I do not think I should be forced to take care of a woman or a baby daddy with 10 kids, a drug habit, and who just can't keep her knees shut or his pants or zipper up - except on a limited emergency based way. There is a biiiig difference between you and them (unless you are also that kind of baby daddy or woman).
Lee, I do not have any health insurance problem. I am a Veteran of service in the USArmy. YOU and the rest of us taxpayers take very good care of all my health needs, and when an employer provides insurance to me, or one of my fellow vets, THAT insurance company pays for my VA care so you don't have to.
Karl Leuba Nov 3, 2009, 8:11pm EST
Tell me how it can be argued that those registered men are not in a reserve force. The Republicans released a Health Care Reform Plan yesterday. It is pretty long, and I have only started reading it, but title one seems to provide for a totally unfunded public option administered under federal mandate by the various states. It's a good Idea...AS SOON AS THE MANDATE IS FUNDED. To do it either the States will have to increase revenue with taxes, or some other mechanism, or the Federal government will have to PROVIDE THE MONEY. It is so much like No Child Left Behind in that regard it's terrifying.
If you are willing to support a minimum wage that will ALLOW workers to pay their own insurance I will offer up a strong support to your proposal. Thirty dollars an hour seems about right.
PROBLEM LEE...You are willing to pay for my health care because I served in the Army. All I provided was security against aggression for this country, and to some extent an offer to commit aggression on behalf of the country if the politicians deemed it necessary. So, you say I deserve Health Care, and Government Guaranteed Home loans and subsidies for education. Thanks, I appreciate that. BUT...I think that security guard also deserves the same kind of protection. Qualified he can get a Pell Grant, or an FHA home loan, BUT HE CANNOT GET GOVERNMENT HEALTH INSURANCE. That is sickening criminal, disgusting and unacceptable in a nation that claims to have the BEST ECONOMIC SYSTEM EVER DEVISED.
As a nation we should be ashamed that Cuba and Mexico and Venezuela and Chile do a better job of providing medical care to their citizens than we do. We are able to provide it, and it should be a human right to have it. But for some ASININE reason REPUBLICANS seem to think that IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR THE MEDICINE YOU SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP AND DIE ALREADY.
You still deserve healthcare.
However, no matter how many names you call me or how much innuendo or invective you advance, these kinds of people do not:
Karl Leuba Nov 16, 2009, 2:07am EST
BTW Lee, and anyone else who has any interest in this issue, I DO NOT HAVE ANY REASON TO BE NICE TO ANYONE WHO I PERCEIVE AS WANTING MY FELLOW AMERICANS DEAD. And that Lee is the problem I have with being "nice" to you and a lot of other whacked out neo conservative slime-buckets.
NOW, your mission, should you decide to attempt it is to translate, into plain English, the Lewis Carroll poem Jaberwocky. failing that assignment will mean that your license to pick nits will be suspended for seven minutes and twenty eight seconds on the third Friday of next week.
It's nitpicky for the Dr. to have pointed that typo out in such a way. Why not just say - hey you have a typo?
Consider this --- I posted this on the 2nd .... I woulld not have bothered to post it if the date of the meetup was actually on the 2nd. It would have been too late. I would have looked for and posted followups and reports about what happened instead of encouraging people to go to something that had already happened. Yadda yadda yadda
Now ... I'll go change it.
Ask this question...WHICH DO I WANT, A government agency or a for profit corporation taking my money to pay medical bills for other people?
Char H. Nov 7, 2009, 5:26pm EST
Lee, Thanks for the post! Bring 'em on, can I share my bar code post? How do I post it elsewhere???