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Michael Moore Blasts House Health Care Bill

“The health insurance companies are going to make an extra 70 billion dollars as a result of Americans being forced to buy their health insurance. What company wouldn’t love this bill?” — Michael Moore in Toronto Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Not buying it at http://www.michaelmoore.com/

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House Speaker Pelosi admits JAIL is “fair” for not buying health insurance – 11-9-09

During a press conference at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Nancy Pelosi danced around a difficult question, twice. The questions pertained to 5-year jail terms and $250,000 fines for those refusing to buy health insurance under her plan. However, she did say her plan was “fair”.

Choice??? According to HR 3962, buy insurance or go to jail. Such “choice” is standard under dictatorships, is this tyranny the “change” that voters hoped for? Of course not.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was in Seattle on Monday, November 9, 2009 where she joined Democratic Reps. Jay Inslee, Jim McDermott and Norman Dicks in a tour of Swedish Medical Center. Pelosi’s visit came less than 48 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the massive and short-sighted “Affordable Health Care for America Act” bill by a very narrow margin, 220-215. Pelosi needed at least 218 votes for passage.

The closed door meetings and their partisan Democrat scheme worked despite the obvious will of the People as a Rasmussen poll found that 57% Americans opposed while only 41% approved government run health care. By all accounts, this bill should have died. However, the Stupak amendment revived it at the promise of removing funding for abortions, which we all know can be reversed later on. The Stupak amendment to HR 3962 was proposed and approved in the House of Representatives on November 7, 2009. Here are more details about the amendment:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/66969-se…

Pelosi was recently asked another question that she could not answer. She was asked where in the Constitution does it give government the right to run health care. Her snarky answer was simply; are you serious, are you serious? Yes, we patriots are serious; just ask us what we think of more government intrusion in our lives, this being an egregious one that will snatch 1/6th of the US economy from the private sector and in total making government in charge of about half of the entire economy. The more this reckless government strays away from the guidelines set by our Founding Fathers, the less freedom we are left with.

Liberty will die and so will patients under this sort of health care reform. Like in Canada and much of socialist Europe, patients needlessly die waiting weeks or months for life saving surgeries. And in our case, Washington bureaucrats will make decisions for you and your doctor based on cost effective procedures. That is where rationing and cost savings will offset the massive fraud, waste and abuse that government is infamous for. It is a good thing that Congress, with their 240 millionaires, will be spared the rationed care they impose of the American public.

This legislation must be stopped at all expense, as the Senate will soon vote on it. Our Liberty and quality of health care depends on our success in stopping this reckless government and their radical and destructive agenda. Their narrow-minded approach to destroying the best health care on Earth only to reform it is based on deceptive tactics and exploitation of the American people. It must be done NOW, however not implemented until 2013. Therefore, the negative fallout will not play a role in possibly reelecting our leftist president.

The same day, President Obama also danced around a similar question posed by White House press staff Jake Tapper. Mr. Tapper also had to ask the question twice and met with a condescending, “I’m not sure that’s the biggest question they’re asking right now”. Here is a link to that:

Please call, email, or visit your Senator and urge them to vote NO, before its too late! Once implemented this government plan, like all other entitlement programs, is permanent and will cost at least 3x the projections, totaling over $3 Trillion…of deficit spending!
Furthermore, they talk about “subsidies” and they really mean redistribution of wealth, Karl Marx style. Providing health care is unconstitutional, therefore its not the role of government in a free and civil society.
Contrary to pro health care talking points; not everyone drives a car and buying auto insurance IS still an option, health insurance should be too; its called individual freedom and (real) choice. According to our Constitution, which protects Liberty, government shall be limited, not expanded and intrusive into every facet of our lives. This health care “debate” is not really about health nor care, it’s about CONTROL.

More details at this Seattle TEA party COMMUNITY ORGANIZER’s blog:

http://redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/

Also, this press conference was not announced publicly. And the protest against Pelosi-care was organized with only 3-hours advance notice. The speaker obviously didn’t want to draw hundreds or thousands to protest her visit.

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Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch

As the health insurance reform debate enters into its final stages in Congress, the President denounces the desperate and deceptive last-ditch efforts of the health insurance companies to derail it. October 17, 2009. (Public Domain)

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California’s median home price down 40%; U.S. Dollar in Trouble; Obama’s electric car

House passed a bill that taxes AIG and other bailout company employee bonuses
•impose a 35 percent excise tax on the companies paying the bonuses and a 35 percent tax on the employees receiving them.
•”We want our money back now for the taxpayers,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “It isn’t that complicated.”
•*Basically, Washington is throwing AIG employees under the bus by placing all of the blame on them.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/House-passes-bill-taxing-AIG-apf-14693850.html

Oil prices reach new high for 2009 as dollar falls
•A result of the Fed sinking dollar and OPEC cutting supply

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Oil-hits-high-for-2009-as-apf-14689612.html

Fed to pump another $1 trillion into U.S. economy
•The Federal Reserve inserted an extra $1 trillion into the financial system by purchasing Treasury bonds and mortgage securities.
•*Im not financial expert, but it sounds these guys are just printing dollars
•*where did we get one trillion dollars from?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/18/business/fed.php

Dollar Heads for Record Weekly Loss Versus Euro as Supply Rises
•The dollar headed for a record weekly drop against the euro after the Federal Reserve ramped up supply of the currency by unexpectedly saying it will start buying Treasuries.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPBKcHlztObA&refer=home

Lam Research to cut 375 more jobs

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1946410420090320

Pa. lost 41,000 jobs in February, most since 1996

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/03/19/ap6191001.html

California’s median home price down 40%
•The state median fell to $224,000 in February, compared with $373,000 a year earlier, tracking firm MDA DataQuick says.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sfhomes20-2009mar20,1,2320173.story

Foreclosure in WA
Harrison and four competitors have qualified to bid on a 3,300-square-foot McMansion on an acre lot in the south county town of Auburn. The house last sold for $470,450 more than four years ago, the county assesses it at $577,000, and well over $600,000 is owed against it on a pair of loans.
But the foreclosing lender, trying to recoup what it can in an area of plummeting real estate prices, has set the opening bid at just $267,000.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29744491/

Gov. Strickland says Ohio shouldn’t gamble on casinos to solve its economic woes
•Flint considered this too

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008886619_apgamblingproposalgovernor.html

Obama unveils $2.4-billion grant program to aid electric cars
•Obama visited an electric-vehicle testing center and announces a program for companies to compete for grant money.
•He pledges to put a million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-pomona20-2009mar20,0,4688845.story

Homeless people living under the state Capitol in Madison, WI

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/41472052.html

Citys Public Hospital System to Cut Jobs and Programs
•New York Citys public hospital system is cutting 400 jobs and closing some childrens mental-health programs, pharmacies and community clinics
•*I think were going to see a lot of hospitals that serve the poor shut down and its going to have devastating consequences.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/nyregion/20hhc.html?ref=nyregion

Incest Killer Josef Fritzl Gets Life Sentence
•Incest killer Josef Fritzl has been given a life sentence at a psychiatric hospital for locking his daughter in a cellar for decades and letting their baby son die.
•*why am I mentioning this? Stories like this remember me that when people have the freedom to do anything, they often will do anything.
•*I dont think that economy is going to get better this year or the next. In fact, I think that things are going to get worse. And whether you like it or not, the next three years will our true colors.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Josef-Fritzl-Guilty-Cellar-Incest-Abuse-Trial-In-Austria/Article/200903315244994?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15244994_Josef_Fritzl_Guilty%3A_Cellar_Incest_Abuse_Trial_In_Austria

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The Truth About Health Care Insurance Reform

In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White Houses Health Reform Office, addresses a story that makes it look like the President intends to eliminate private coverage, when the reality couldnt be further from the truth.

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