My Letter to the Editor

Feel free to copy and paste.

wtp

Dear Editor:

Just in case anybody is under the misapprehension that government healthcare will be good for him or for the country, allow me to point out just three facts that are generally accepted by many Democrats and the Congressional Budget Office:

1) Health care costs will skyrocket. Make no mistake, a government-run system will cost more than $1 trillion and Washington will have to keep raising taxes, rationing care, and limiting your choices in doctors and treatments to keep up.

2) Millions of jobs will be lost. A massive small business tax and crippling penalties will force small businesses to shed jobs or close their doors.

3) Millions of Americans will lose their current coverage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates up to 20 million Americans would remain uninsured, even after spending more than $1 trillion.

Contact your representative, and tell him THIS is not the answer to our healthcare problems. And do it NOW. There’s not much time.

Of course...

If you want healthcare run like the Veteran’s Administration or the DMV;
If you want long delays, rationed care, limited options, fewer new drugs and innovative procedures;
If you want millions of small businesses hurt or ruined, and thus even more massive unemployment;
If you want government forced destruction of your current health insurance...

...don’t do anything at all.

Signed, etc. etc.

Letter from John Boehner on ØbamaCare

Here is an email I received from John Boehner, House Republican Leader:

Dear Fellow American,

Speaker Pelosi and President Obama are pushing legislation that will force millions of families out of their health care plans and into a costly, lower-quality, government-run system - and they want a vote on it in a matter of weeks.

We need to stop them right here, right now. Here's how you can help: Please write at least one "letter to the editor" to your local newspaper or contact your Congressman and explain - in your own words - why you oppose government-run health care.

Here are three simple facts to keep in mind about the Democrats' government takeover:

1) Health care costs will skyrocket. Make no mistake, a government-run system will cost more than $1 trillion and Washington will have to keep raising taxes, rationing care, and limiting your choices in doctors and treatments to keep up.

2) Millions of jobs will be lost. A massive small business tax and crippling penalties will force small businesses to shed jobs or close their doors.

3) Millions of Americans will lose their current coverage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates up to 20 million Americans would remain uninsured, even after spending more than $1 trillion.

Republicans have a real health care solution that will lower health care costs, expand access to high-quality care, and foster new innovations that will save lives - without raising taxes or creating a government "option."

Our plan will make it easier for small businesses to provide affordable coverage, and end the junk lawsuits and wasteful spending that drive up costs. Expect an email early next week from Congressman Price that explains our plan in more detail.

We can bring down the cost of health care - but first we need to stop Speaker Pelosi and President Obama's government takeover. So please write an op-ed to your local newspaper and call your Congressman today. I hope I can count on your help

Signed,

John Boehner

House Republican Leader

I'd just copy and paste the three main points, and send them to the newspaper with a short intro. Same for your rep.

wtp

First Meeting...

Meeting is shaping up for next Thursday, all respondents (but one) so far can make it that evening.

And everyone seems fine with the time: 5:00 pm.

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Action Alert - ØBAMACARE

You can sign the Grassfire petition against ØbamaCare here. Doesn't take long. Doesn't cost anything.

Take a minute.

THE PLAN

"We The People", is a non-partisan group of patriots who are extremely concerned by what is happening to our country.

We certainly blame Øbama and the Democrats. But we acknowledge that without the spineless, and often corrupt cooperation of the Career Republican Politicians, a lot of what has already gone wrong would not have happened.

Øbama may be the worst President in history, but he is standing on the shoulders of the avarice, ambition, greed, selfishness and corruption of many generations of grasping, out-of-touch, power-hungry, dirty-dealing, elitest, self-serving CAREER POLITICIANS of both parties. And what they have created, or allowed to be created under their noses has made possible Øbama's rushing freight train to perdition.

And let's not even TALK about Republican spending!

I have thought about this a great deal, and I believe that there are three things we need to concentrate on:



1) Stop Socialized Medicine

2) Stop Cap & Trade

3) Throw The Bums Out!



I believe that every other issue, crime and outrage (of which there are so many every day, most of us feel as though we were drowning in piles of manure) will be manageable if we can accomplish #1 & #2.

Stopping these from going through will prevent the installation of infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to remove. And forbiding them to Øbama, will damage him politically—something we very much need to do. Even the Cult Media cannot spin the total loss of his two major Imperial State power grabs.

His regulations and taxes and fiats and budgets and horrid foreign policy can all be undone by a better and subsequent administration. But Cap & Trade devastates Business and Socialized Medicine devestates Private care which makes it difficult to restore them. In addition, they both install vast bureaucracies that will be much more difficult to dismantle.

We must concentrate on them. And together we can do it. Many in the Senate are already uncomfortable with Cap & Trade. And we have both houses as yet to work on regarding Health Care. But we have to get started NOW!

As for #3, it is very simple, though not easy. By 2010...a little over a year (and if not, then in 2012), we must try to get as many incumbents voted out of Congress as possible.

Here's the good part:

It does not matter whether they are Democrat or Republican. It does not matter whether they are good or bad. It does not matter whether they are honest or crooked. THAT IS NOT THE POINT.

We do not have to find good replacements. Or worry about issues. No. All we have to do is vote out all incumbents.

Why is this a good thing? What if we get someone worse in than we voted out, if we just vote against the incumbent?

It's called LEVERAGE. When you've got it, you can even make jerks do what's right! And it's called FEAR!

OUR GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO FEAR US. THIS IS HOW WE MAKE THAT HAPPEN!

1) If we can get say, 25%, of the incumbents tossed out, Congress will FREAK. It will look like an ant hill somebody flooded.

Their cushy jobs, their insulated existences will be blown wide open. They'll know they have targets on their backs, and that nobody is safe. That's very motivating.

This will be true of election survivors, as well as those who didn't face election that year, and every one of the "replacements" who benfited from the encumbents' losses.

A SCARED Congress is a WELL-BEHAVED Congress.

It's like hitting the mule over the head with the 2 x 4. We need to get their attention.

And writing, calling, petitioning, emailing...isn't working anymore. We can keep doing that, of course, but while we do, we need to grow a national movement to THROW THE BUMS OUT!

And in the mean time, we can ignore the flood of other issues, meant to dissipate our power, confuse our attention, dilute our effectiveness, overwhelm us, frustrate us, tire us and depress us—and in the end make us feel helpless and JUST GIVE UP.

We are Americans. We don't give up. We're tough, smart—and we got game. Let's show them they ain't seen nothin' yet!


I think we need to focus like lasers on CAP & TRADE, HEALTHCARE, and THROW THE BUMS OUT!

Of course, after we make our point, we can find and vote for as many great representatives as we can find in the next election...and toss the rest of the JERKS out on their asses.

I know this is terribly ambitious. And very unorthodox. Even radical.

Isn't it TIME for that? What we've been doing so far certainly IS NOT working.

If you're interested, reply to this address, and we'll meet soon to get started.

If you're not...I sure hope you've got a better idea. And if you do...please SHARE!

Thanks for your patience...reading this long email.

God Bless America

Chart of ØbamaCare

UPDATE: My friend Robert advises that I make clear that this graphic is not a 'cartoon' making fun of Øbamacare. It is not! This is a legitimate representation of what the bill in Congress actually entails. Though, considering how absurd it is, one could hardly be blamed for thinking otherwise. wtp

This is what the House Health Care Bill would look like if implemented.
Seriously, what is the MATTER with these people?

(click on the image to see it full size - I advise having a drink first)

Fire Them All!

This is the "Reboot Congress" initiative from the New Hampshire 912 Project. I think it's a good one. The danger of getting a worse scoundrel that we got rid of is nothing compared to the lesson we'll teach the Imperial State...that it is We The People who are in charge!

I endorse it!

Hey Congress - You're Fired!

You Can Take Action NOW!

As voters, we face a prodigious challenge in the coming elections. The challenge itself has been with us for decades, and for decades we have failed to step up to it. Yes, the blame for the failed policies of the past lies squarely on the shoulders of the American voter – not George Bush. Likewise, the failed policies of the future (now being formulated in Washington by the Obama coalition as a doubling down on the failed policies of the past) are directly the responsibility of - yes - the American voter.

How, with the best of intentions, have we gone wrong? Certainly we can point to having been hornswaggled by politicians and special interests, but we are a self-reliant people and most of us are not inclined to blame others for our own mistakes. We must examine our failed voting policies of the past and correct them. And we must do it before the next general election. Most of us are truly frightened by what is happening in Washington D.C. There is no time to waste.

The Lesser of Two Evils voting policy: This is the excuse we use when voting for borderline (or outright) criminals for public office. This rationale generally favors the incumbent as “the devil we know” vs. “the devil we don’t know”. This voter policy is directly responsible for negative campaign advertising. Voters almost universally don’t approve of negative campaign advertising BUT IT STILL WORKS. It works because it succeeds in planting the notion of greater evil about one or another candidate and political operatives know we will select the lesser of two evils. So long as this voter policy is in place the political operatives will be able to outmaneuver us. The major failure of this policy is that it promotes incumbency (the devil we know). Incumbency fosters the proliferation of unholy networks of public servants, lobbyists and political operatives (the parties) within which favors are done by the public servants and favors are paid for by the special interests. These are subtle exchanges, usually unlikely to be prosecutable in a court of law. If no politician could serve even a second term, these networks would deteriorate, there not being sufficient time to form them into stable, robust cabals.

The Straight Ticket voting policy: This policy simply applies the “Lesser of Two Evils” policy to slates of party candidates. Voters who tend to favor the Democrat platform vote for Democrats and vice versa. Because the voter now only has to make one decision, rather than many, it is a much more efficient path to political Armageddon. Similar to negative campaign advertising, this policy leads to a continual demonization war each party against the other. We now have rancorous political rhetoric bombarding us every day even when there are no elections in process. The consequence of this voting policy is incumbency squared. The parties are the promoters and the facilitators of the unholy networks within which wealth is transferred from special interests to politicians and, through legislation passed by the politicians, from the American voters to the special interests (guess who makes a profit on this). Parties almost always renominate an incumbent, so this voting policy practically guarantees high levels of long-term incumbency.

The question is, “Can we formulate a voting policy to break this cycle of voter failure?”. The answer is certainly “Yes” (else we are certainly doomed). Term limits you say? That is not a voting policy. That is an appeal to the legislature to pass a law to save us from ourselves. How pathetic is that? Not to mention the impracticality of it. Do you expect the U.S. Congress to ever pass a law that would derail it's gravy train? The unholy networks have been enormously profitable for most members of congress; and, although many of them will say they support term limits, the legislation itself will never, ever happen.

The Reboot Congress Voting policy: Just a few weeks before the election of 2008, Congressional approval hit an all time low of around 12%. One would therefore expect the reelection rate for sitting congressmen in 2008 to have been quite low, but in fact it turned out to be 94%! The last time the congressional reelection rate was below 94% was 1994. The lowest reelection rate in the last 50 years was in 1970 – 85%. Maybe we just love to hate these folks. In any case we have consistently empowered them to take advantage of us.

“And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government, and be your rulers. And these, too, will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation, for their vanquished competitors, of the same spirit, and from the same motives, will perpetually be endeavoring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people.” Benjamin Franklin

We MUST say to these people, loudly and clearly, “You're fired!”. The successful voting policy is easy to implement. It requires no research, no soul searching. All the information needed to do it is printed right on the ballot. Simply do not check the box for an incumbent. If by this policy the American voter can limit Congress to a reelection rate of 75% in 2010, that will be enough to shatter the confidence of Washington D.C. And it will reverberate throughout the country at every level of government. If we can achieve a reelection rate less than 50%, that will be total victory. Yes, if we follow this policy, we're going to elect some scoundrel challengers who may be worse than the deposed incumbents, but they will know they are likely to be one-termers if they don't win our approval. Ultimately of course, we will have to adopt a different policy we'll call “the greater of two goods” - the sooner the better. But for now, as voters, we need to take drastic action.

YOU CAN TAKE ACTION NOW by clicking here and notifying your congressman of his/her term limit.