Something I wrote on the Heritage Foundation blog using Helium a few months ago... still seems quite relevant these days...
http://www.helium.com/items/1511612-should-health-care-be-controlled-by-the-government-or-by-patients
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Capitol to be filled with livid Americans
Citizens return to D.C. to warn Congress, 'Keep your hands off my health care'
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Posted: November 02, 2009
8:41 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an "Emergency House Call on Congress" to stop the House from passing the Democrats' health-care bill this week.
A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at noon to protest the health-care bill set to hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday.
Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and "pay an emergency House call to Congress."
"This is the most effective way we have to kill socialized medicine and to do it this week," she said. "Nothing is more effective at reaching a congressman than having a citizen come to Washington, D.C. – not asking for a handout, not asking for tax money, not asking to take some liberty away from somebody else, but just asking for freedom."
Send Congress a message – no government health care, or you're outta there – through WND's exclusive "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign!
She said the American people spoke loud and clear this summer, telling Congress they don't want "cradle-to-grave takeover of health care." According to Rasmussen Reports, a full 54 percent of voters are now opposed to the House version of health-care reform. Only 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan while nearly twice as many, or 44 percent, expressed strong opposition.
"We saw tea parties. We saw the 9/12 movement where literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more, all converged on the Capitol on a Saturday. People did this to get the attention of their members of Congress," Bachmann said. "This is the week when the decision will be made about whether we will choose liberty or tyranny, whether we will choose socialized medicine or a free market."
Actor John Voight and "Liberty and Tyranny" author Mark Levin have volunteered to come and speak at the event. Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, will speak as well.
Bachmann cited a study by William Boyes, an economics professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, who estimated in July that the federal government has taken ownership or control of one-third of the private economy.
"Now if President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are successful with this health bill, then that would be an additional 18 percent of the private economy the government would own or control," she said. "With more than 50 percent of the private economy controlled by the government, you can no longer say with a straight face that we're a free-market, capitalist system."
She noted that Pelosi has pledged to give the public only three days to review the legislation, a timeframe she called a "tremendous insult to the American people."
The current version of the bill now numbers nearly 2,000 pages.
"The final bill will come out tonight," Bachmann said. "I have heard through the grapevine that we may have another 800 pages. Clearly the liberals who wrote it are ashamed of their own bill. They're ashamed to have the American people know what's in it."
She continued, "If they were proud of it, they would want everyone to know what's in it, and they would want everyone discussing the contents of this bill on television, in the newspapers, in magazines, on radio shows and over cups of coffee."
(Story continues below)
President Obama promised during his campaign that health-care negotiations would occur in the public eye and be broadcast on C-SPAN.
"Not only were the negotiations not broadcast, negotiations essentially didn't even occur between Democrats and Republicans for all practical purposes," Bachmann said. "Democrats even changed the locks on doors on committee rooms here in Washington and kept members of Congress out. This is clearly a one-party bill."
Bachmann told WND this is one example of Obama making good on his campaign promise to "transform America."
"That's exactly what he's doing. But he's transforming it away from the free-market republic that our founders gave us. He's transforming us into a government-controlled economy," she said. "That's not what I believe the majority of the American people are asking their government to do. That's why this is so crucial."
She noted that Pelosi may have garnered the 218 votes necessary to pass the legislation this week.
"It appears they plan to push it through, and unless the American people push back, unless they take the extraordinary step of coming to Washington at noon on Thursday, this bill will go through," Bachmann said. "We Republicans can't stop the passage. But with resistance from the American people, I am fully confident it can be defeated."
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, echoed Bachmann's request in an interview with WND's Radio America.
"Come to Washington to save your freedom," he said. "It's the only thing that's going to change this."
Bachmann is inviting citizens to "come to Washington, D.C. by the carload" and attend the meeting on the west steps of the Capitol. She asks that attendees bring video cameras and office numbers and phone numbers of their representatives so they can find them and "get them on video saying how they will vote."
She urged, "Come to Washington, D.C., find your member of Congress, look into the whites of their eyes and tell them, 'Keep your hands off of my health care. This is not what I sent you to Washington to do. You are taking away my fundamental freedoms without my consent.'"
(Editor's note: Concerned individuals may contact their respective representatives and senators.)
Capitol to be filled with livid Americans
Citizens return to D.C. to warn Congress, 'Keep your hands off my health care'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: November 02, 2009
8:41 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an "Emergency House Call on Congress" to stop the House from passing the Democrats' health-care bill this week.
A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at noon to protest the health-care bill set to hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday.
Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and "pay an emergency House call to Congress."
"This is the most effective way we have to kill socialized medicine and to do it this week," she said. "Nothing is more effective at reaching a congressman than having a citizen come to Washington, D.C. – not asking for a handout, not asking for tax money, not asking to take some liberty away from somebody else, but just asking for freedom."
Send Congress a message – no government health care, or you're outta there – through WND's exclusive "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign!
She said the American people spoke loud and clear this summer, telling Congress they don't want "cradle-to-grave takeover of health care." According to Rasmussen Reports, a full 54 percent of voters are now opposed to the House version of health-care reform. Only 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan while nearly twice as many, or 44 percent, expressed strong opposition.
"We saw tea parties. We saw the 9/12 movement where literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more, all converged on the Capitol on a Saturday. People did this to get the attention of their members of Congress," Bachmann said. "This is the week when the decision will be made about whether we will choose liberty or tyranny, whether we will choose socialized medicine or a free market."
Actor John Voight and "Liberty and Tyranny" author Mark Levin have volunteered to come and speak at the event. Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, will speak as well.
Bachmann cited a study by William Boyes, an economics professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, who estimated in July that the federal government has taken ownership or control of one-third of the private economy.
"Now if President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are successful with this health bill, then that would be an additional 18 percent of the private economy the government would own or control," she said. "With more than 50 percent of the private economy controlled by the government, you can no longer say with a straight face that we're a free-market, capitalist system."
She noted that Pelosi has pledged to give the public only three days to review the legislation, a timeframe she called a "tremendous insult to the American people."
The current version of the bill now numbers nearly 2,000 pages.
"The final bill will come out tonight," Bachmann said. "I have heard through the grapevine that we may have another 800 pages. Clearly the liberals who wrote it are ashamed of their own bill. They're ashamed to have the American people know what's in it."
She continued, "If they were proud of it, they would want everyone to know what's in it, and they would want everyone discussing the contents of this bill on television, in the newspapers, in magazines, on radio shows and over cups of coffee."
(Story continues below)
President Obama promised during his campaign that health-care negotiations would occur in the public eye and be broadcast on C-SPAN.
"Not only were the negotiations not broadcast, negotiations essentially didn't even occur between Democrats and Republicans for all practical purposes," Bachmann said. "Democrats even changed the locks on doors on committee rooms here in Washington and kept members of Congress out. This is clearly a one-party bill."
Bachmann told WND this is one example of Obama making good on his campaign promise to "transform America."
"That's exactly what he's doing. But he's transforming it away from the free-market republic that our founders gave us. He's transforming us into a government-controlled economy," she said. "That's not what I believe the majority of the American people are asking their government to do. That's why this is so crucial."
She noted that Pelosi may have garnered the 218 votes necessary to pass the legislation this week.
"It appears they plan to push it through, and unless the American people push back, unless they take the extraordinary step of coming to Washington at noon on Thursday, this bill will go through," Bachmann said. "We Republicans can't stop the passage. But with resistance from the American people, I am fully confident it can be defeated."
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, echoed Bachmann's request in an interview with WND's Radio America.
"Come to Washington to save your freedom," he said. "It's the only thing that's going to change this."
Bachmann is inviting citizens to "come to Washington, D.C. by the carload" and attend the meeting on the west steps of the Capitol. She asks that attendees bring video cameras and office numbers and phone numbers of their representatives so they can find them and "get them on video saying how they will vote."
She urged, "Come to Washington, D.C., find your member of Congress, look into the whites of their eyes and tell them, 'Keep your hands off of my health care. This is not what I sent you to Washington to do. You are taking away my fundamental freedoms without my consent.'"
(Editor's note: Concerned individuals may contact their respective representatives and senators.)
Vote for Christie to End NJ Tax Slavery Today
Here are a few recent posts on the NJ Governor's race, I thought you might enjoy...Speak up, America! We're listening and participating!
Public Policy Polling Blogspot, November 2, 2009
If this radical president and arrogant tone-deaf Congress doesn't motivate people to donate time and money to work to get these tricksters out of office, then nothing will. If you truly love your country, get informed and involved. You may not be able to sacrifice over in Afghanistan or Iraq like our brave soldiers, but you can at least do your part by sacrificing over here. Together we can take back our country from these progressive Marxist anti-constitutional people, that are trying to drag americans where they DONT want to go. Look at how for the first time in history, our historic empire state building honored an oppressive communist nation, China, by flying the communist colors to honor the anniversary of the 'communist revolution'!! Look at what these scoundrels have done to this great God given nation, take a look at what the spirit of secular humanism has done to our youth and schools! Take a look at our so-called free trade, which has allowed greedy companies to take American jobs overseas, crushing the middle class and manufacturing. 'Made in America' is a by-word. Take a look at how they have protected big business and allowed illegal aliens to come in and cut the legs out from American families, by working dirt cheap and thus stealing jobs, and now they have the nerve to want to take the wrecking ball to our health-care system, and insure them? The ONLY way to stop this national epidemic is to ENFORCE THE LAW and send them back. As harsh as that is and sounds we have to send a STRONG message to people that would disregard our laws and hold our compassion hostage, and let them know that America is not going to stand for this corrupt practice ANY LONGER. We need to love our citizens and respect our laws. Also take a look at all these GROSS bailouts to corrupt companies. Look at all the wacko radicals this pop culture president has in his administration! I wonder what people would think if George Bush had in his administration someone like communication director Anita Dunn, who says one of her heroes is a mass murderer (Mao Tse Tung) or 'safe' school czar Kevin Jennings who wrote the forward to the book "Queering elementary education" and endorses a known MAMBLA member. The brainless liberal press would have a field day!! But are these the people we want to have access to our children? Americans should wake up from the Obama spell and stop listening to his smooth rhetoric and look at the plain facts. "You know a tree by it's fruit". People should start googling the names of who this radical president has surrounded himself with and are directly in his administration - it would absolutely shock the majority of Americans. All of us can truly make a difference and give them well-deserved fits, by constantly calling, writing or e-mailing your reps and telling them that "you're mad as hell and you're not going to TAKE it ANYMORE". What do you think the radical far left minority is doing? Rise up with your God-given talents and donate them, and make a difference. We received it from prior generations, and owe it to our future generations. God bless America!
A VOTE FOR CHRISTIE TODAY, IS A VOTE AGAINST OBAMACARE, CAP AND TAX, AND EVERYTHING THESE BIG GOVERNMENT POLICIES REPRESENT!!
CHRIS CHRISTIE IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE RACE OPPOSING HIGHER TAXES AND BIGGER GOVERNMENT, AND THE ONE BEST QUALIFIED TO CLEAN UP THE STATE'S RAMPANT CORRUPTION.
NEW JERSEYANS, PLEASE, USE YOUR VOTE TODAY WHILE IT STILL MATTERS!! FOUR MORE YEARS OF CORZINE WILL TRANSFORM NJ INTO A REAL WASTELAND!!
Mary Ann said...
My name is Mary Ann from Rochester N.Y. and I cast for Obama last year but I don't like the direction the country is going in, so I have listened and opened my mind to other talented politicians and I'm now independent. I am supporting Chris Christie for Gov. of NJ. Why? Well, I heard him in a few interviews and checked him out and this guy is smart. I also think if NJ wants more of the same higher taxes, property, sales, high unemployment higher than N.Y. than Corzine is the INCOMPENTENT GUY FOR YOU. But let me say what a nasty campaigner he is for people who struggle with being over weight, obesity and fat as the nasty campaign ad Corzine put out on Chris Christie and he meant his body weight how despicable that was and I could lose a few pounds myself. I respect that CHRISTIE came out and said "I struggle with my weight" on a national TV show. Maybe Obama should check in to the fat gene that causes millions of Americans to struggle with their weight because I do believe there is a genetic component to that. ALL NJ OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD BE OFFENDED BY THAT. OBAMA'S CAMPAIGNING FOR CORZINE AMOUNTED TO LITTLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE 2 SKINNY CRONIES AND OBAMA HAS HIS OWN POLITICAL AGENDA FOR CORZINE TO WIN, SUCH AS HIS OWN POLITICAL FUTURE. I VOTED FOR OBAMA BUT NOW I'M INDEPENDENT. I WILL SAY CHRISTIE IS A SMART HANDSOME GUY AND YOUTHFUL TO THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE SKINNY GUY WHO HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE GARDEN STATE AND INSULTS FAT PEOPLE BECAUSE CORZINE IS FAT- PREDJUDICED. I WOULD RATHER TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH AND VOTE FOR A REFRESHING GUY LIKE CHRIS CHRISTIE WHO CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS NJ IS NOW FACING. NJ PEOPLE VOTE CHRIS CHRISTIE IN YOUR FAITH AND I DON'T THINK YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. HE IS SMART AND I HAVE COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO DO STRUGGLE WITH THEIR WEIGHT. CHRISTI IS A DECENT GUY. SINCERELY MARY ANN (ROCHESTER NEW YORK) BEST WISHES NEW JERSEY!
November 2, 2009 2:08 PM http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/11/christie-leads.html
Public Policy Polling Blogspot, November 2, 2009
If this radical president and arrogant tone-deaf Congress doesn't motivate people to donate time and money to work to get these tricksters out of office, then nothing will. If you truly love your country, get informed and involved. You may not be able to sacrifice over in Afghanistan or Iraq like our brave soldiers, but you can at least do your part by sacrificing over here. Together we can take back our country from these progressive Marxist anti-constitutional people, that are trying to drag americans where they DONT want to go. Look at how for the first time in history, our historic empire state building honored an oppressive communist nation, China, by flying the communist colors to honor the anniversary of the 'communist revolution'!! Look at what these scoundrels have done to this great God given nation, take a look at what the spirit of secular humanism has done to our youth and schools! Take a look at our so-called free trade, which has allowed greedy companies to take American jobs overseas, crushing the middle class and manufacturing. 'Made in America' is a by-word. Take a look at how they have protected big business and allowed illegal aliens to come in and cut the legs out from American families, by working dirt cheap and thus stealing jobs, and now they have the nerve to want to take the wrecking ball to our health-care system, and insure them? The ONLY way to stop this national epidemic is to ENFORCE THE LAW and send them back. As harsh as that is and sounds we have to send a STRONG message to people that would disregard our laws and hold our compassion hostage, and let them know that America is not going to stand for this corrupt practice ANY LONGER. We need to love our citizens and respect our laws. Also take a look at all these GROSS bailouts to corrupt companies. Look at all the wacko radicals this pop culture president has in his administration! I wonder what people would think if George Bush had in his administration someone like communication director Anita Dunn, who says one of her heroes is a mass murderer (Mao Tse Tung) or 'safe' school czar Kevin Jennings who wrote the forward to the book "Queering elementary education" and endorses a known MAMBLA member. The brainless liberal press would have a field day!! But are these the people we want to have access to our children? Americans should wake up from the Obama spell and stop listening to his smooth rhetoric and look at the plain facts. "You know a tree by it's fruit". People should start googling the names of who this radical president has surrounded himself with and are directly in his administration - it would absolutely shock the majority of Americans. All of us can truly make a difference and give them well-deserved fits, by constantly calling, writing or e-mailing your reps and telling them that "you're mad as hell and you're not going to TAKE it ANYMORE". What do you think the radical far left minority is doing? Rise up with your God-given talents and donate them, and make a difference. We received it from prior generations, and owe it to our future generations. God bless America!
A VOTE FOR CHRISTIE TODAY, IS A VOTE AGAINST OBAMACARE, CAP AND TAX, AND EVERYTHING THESE BIG GOVERNMENT POLICIES REPRESENT!!
CHRIS CHRISTIE IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE RACE OPPOSING HIGHER TAXES AND BIGGER GOVERNMENT, AND THE ONE BEST QUALIFIED TO CLEAN UP THE STATE'S RAMPANT CORRUPTION.
NEW JERSEYANS, PLEASE, USE YOUR VOTE TODAY WHILE IT STILL MATTERS!! FOUR MORE YEARS OF CORZINE WILL TRANSFORM NJ INTO A REAL WASTELAND!!
Mary Ann said...
My name is Mary Ann from Rochester N.Y. and I cast for Obama last year but I don't like the direction the country is going in, so I have listened and opened my mind to other talented politicians and I'm now independent. I am supporting Chris Christie for Gov. of NJ. Why? Well, I heard him in a few interviews and checked him out and this guy is smart. I also think if NJ wants more of the same higher taxes, property, sales, high unemployment higher than N.Y. than Corzine is the INCOMPENTENT GUY FOR YOU. But let me say what a nasty campaigner he is for people who struggle with being over weight, obesity and fat as the nasty campaign ad Corzine put out on Chris Christie and he meant his body weight how despicable that was and I could lose a few pounds myself. I respect that CHRISTIE came out and said "I struggle with my weight" on a national TV show. Maybe Obama should check in to the fat gene that causes millions of Americans to struggle with their weight because I do believe there is a genetic component to that. ALL NJ OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD BE OFFENDED BY THAT. OBAMA'S CAMPAIGNING FOR CORZINE AMOUNTED TO LITTLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE 2 SKINNY CRONIES AND OBAMA HAS HIS OWN POLITICAL AGENDA FOR CORZINE TO WIN, SUCH AS HIS OWN POLITICAL FUTURE. I VOTED FOR OBAMA BUT NOW I'M INDEPENDENT. I WILL SAY CHRISTIE IS A SMART HANDSOME GUY AND YOUTHFUL TO THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE SKINNY GUY WHO HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE GARDEN STATE AND INSULTS FAT PEOPLE BECAUSE CORZINE IS FAT- PREDJUDICED. I WOULD RATHER TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH AND VOTE FOR A REFRESHING GUY LIKE CHRIS CHRISTIE WHO CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS NJ IS NOW FACING. NJ PEOPLE VOTE CHRIS CHRISTIE IN YOUR FAITH AND I DON'T THINK YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. HE IS SMART AND I HAVE COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO DO STRUGGLE WITH THEIR WEIGHT. CHRISTI IS A DECENT GUY. SINCERELY MARY ANN (ROCHESTER NEW YORK) BEST WISHES NEW JERSEY!
November 2, 2009 2:08 PM http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/11/christie-leads.html
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