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		<title>Hike Taxes Stat for Healthcare, But No Reform til 2013?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Estes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a common sense booster shot? If so, some U.S. Congressmen need to get one.

We'll be paying higher taxes for the pricey Health Care Reform if it passes, but the Health Care plan won't kick in until 2013? Whaaaat? ....Isn't this idea a lot like paying out the nose for a ballooning credit card bill, but not even being able to enjoy the goodies you bought with your credit card? Good grief, what is in the water up on that Congressional Hill in Washington, D.C.?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a common sense booster shot? If so, some U.S. Congressmen need to get one.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be paying higher taxes for the pricey Health Care Reform if it passes, but the Health Care plan won&#8217;t kick in until <a href="http://www.correntewire.com/about_2013_date">2013</a>? Whaaaat?</p>
<p>I know, you think it&#8217;s crazy talk, but unfortunately that&#8217;s how Sen. Max Baucus wrote the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/08/news/economy/baucus_health_care.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009100915">Health Care</a> Reform bill.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t this idea a lot like paying out the nose for a ballooning credit card bill, but not even being able to enjoy the goodies you bought with your credit card? Good grief, what is in the water up on that Congressional Hill in Washington, D.C.?</p>
<p>The claim that Health Care Reform will be deficit neutral or actually save the US money? The Cato Institute&#8217;s Michael F. Cannon debunks those claims and points out that <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/10/08/baucus-bill-would-cost-more-than-2-trillion/">Baucus&#8217; Bill</a> will cost our country more than $2 Trillion.</p>
<p>How? A lot of fudged numbers by the government, and  &#8217;white lies&#8217;, that&#8217;s how.</p>
<p>Not to mention that the way the bill is written, the aim really seems to be getting everyone on to the public &#8216;option.&#8217; You think there&#8217;s going to actually be an &#8216;option&#8217; long-term? Hmmm. I don&#8217;t think so. Do you?</p>
<p>You think this is going to go over well with Americans? I don&#8217;t know what you think. But I think this plan of paying higher taxes for four years before getting the goods you&#8217;re paying for is completely idiotic.</p>
<p>The only silver lining I see is that this laughable idea will almost certainly get many, many Americans very mad. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b1qdNhqiUzM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b1qdNhqiUzM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> And that 2010 election next year? There will be some very surprised Congressmen. You know, those Congressmen who are in denial about their angry constituents. You know, the ones who keep getting record amounts of emails, letters and phone calls from the people they represent, communications telling them to stop the marathon spending of tax dollars? Yes, I&#8217;m talking about the Congressmen who think the &#8216;angry mob&#8217; will just go away! Remember those Democrats who have been running up our national debt with wasteful bills, and the few Republicans who have joined in the spending orgy?</p>
<p>Can we boot them out? Yes we can!</p>
<p>Just think, once the Congressmen are booted, they&#8217;ll feel the pain of their carefully crafted Health Care Reform. Unless they&#8217;re smart enough to listen to their constituents. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what happens, won&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>Unhealthy Obama Polls Signify Americans&#8217; Discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Estes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From farmers to white collar workers, repairmen to small business owners, Americans see the political elite in Washington ignoring them. They see the lack of representation. They see the massive spending continuing in D.C. despite a huge deficit and an overwhelming cry to stop the madness. Americans see and feel the disconnect with their representatives. They hear the evening news and read the internet news reports. They are outraged by reports from the AP that Sen. Max Baucus’ plan is to mandate health coverage, and punish those who don’t participate by fining them up to $3,800. Have Democrats forgotten that we're in a recession? Fines for not participating in the Health coverage is a legit idea? Give us a break. Have the Tea Party protests and those showing up at Town Halls around our great country communicated nothing to representatives in Congress? This is a real grassroots movement that the mainstream media is dutifully not covering, or covering mockingly.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Great Community Organizer Pres. Barack Obama is facing a conundrum. He is seeing a great number of Americans voice their dismay at what Congress is doing to our country.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The formerly sleeping giant that is comprised of ‘regular’ Americans has awakened, and the Obama administration is displeased.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They’re not pleased that the American people won’t just let the steamroller of Obama change roll over them. So, as Obama’s mission to enact Marxist and Socialist policies advances, the tactic to negatively label those against Obama policies is ongoing.</p>
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<div id="attachment_547" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 209px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-547" title="Obama_Great_Community_Organizer" src="http://www.big-government-in-your-wallet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Obama_Chesh_5-199x300.jpg" alt="Pres. Barack Obama" width="199" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Pres. Barack Obama</p></div>
<p>When Obama speaks on Health Care Reform tonight, he is not speaking to regular Americans. He knows he has angered regular Joes. He knows he won’t convince very many, if any people to his position. But that doesn’t seem to faze the president, who is focused on passing Health Care Reform regardless of the cost. As Obama’s poll numbers continue a major slide downward, the president will address our nation tonight in an effort to convince enough Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate to vote for Health Care Reform, even if their constituents have expressed their opposition to it. Voting against constituents’ wishes puts many Congressional Representatives between a rock and a hard place; next year is a re-election year for many.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Health Care Reform bills in Congress served to galvanize thousands of Americans to show up at Town Hall meetings, particularly last month, when Congressional members were on break. Despite the denials and statements from the White House about what the Health Care Reform would do, whether it will pay for abortions (it will) and whether it will have a so-called public option (it will), those Americans who voiced their displeasure with the Progressive mission are being re-branded.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So now, normal Americans who take time away from their busy lives to go to a town hall or a protest against Health Care Reform or Cap and Tax are being characterized and re-branded as ‘<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/pr-war-erupts-dems-gop-health-reform/">Angry Mobs</a>’ by the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The attempt to characterize such Americans as a negligible percentage of the population continues to be made. Such labeling of middle America only serves to anger more everyday Americans who are an unseen part of a new movement, made up of Independents, Democrats and Republicans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Consequently, the Tea Party movement and the anger against the majority and freely spending Representatives in Congress gains steam and traction.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And so it is easily understood that the longer this cycle of labeling of Americans who are standing up to make their voices heard goes on, the more vocal that chorus of voices will be, and strident too.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From farmers to white collar workers, repairmen to small business owners, Americans see the political elite in Washington ignoring them. They see the lack of representation. They see the massive spending continuing in D.C. despite a huge deficit and an overwhelming cry to stop the madness. Americans see and feel the disconnect with their representatives. They hear the evening news and read the internet news reports. They are outraged by reports from the AP that Sen. Max Baucus’ plan is to mandate health coverage, and punish those who don’t participate by <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g77V_f7Vg118P6PDJhf-zihUJmQQD9AJ8OBO0">fining them up to $3,800</a>. Have Democrats forgotten that we&#8217;re in a recession? Fines for not participating in the Health coverage is a legit idea? Give us a break. Have the Tea Party protests and those showing up at Town Halls around our great country communicated nothing to representatives in Congress? This is a real grassroots movement that the mainstream media is dutifully not covering, or covering mockingly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The irony is the Great One, the long-awaited savior for Progressive Democrats, Barack Obama, is himself a community organizer. But the President and Organizer that is Obama does not realize that the more the DNC wages a verbal war on ‘Angry Mobs’ also known as Everyday Working Americans, the bigger the problem.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For when you see 10,000 people at a Tea Party protest voicing their displeasure with the Obama administration and those in Congress who support his policies, what you don’t see are the millions of American citizens who couldn’t be there to voice their dismay with Tea Partiers. This group of Americans have jobs, family responsibilities, and are not paid to show up at these protests. But they vote!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those in Congress who are still supporting Obama and his policies should beware the numbers of people who are not seen at protests or heard from continuously at their offices. Because the number of Americans greatly dissatisfied, the group the DNC is labeling ‘Angry Mobs’? That’s a majority of Americans. That will become clear in the elections of 2010.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carry on, fellow Mobsters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><em>Photo Source: Wikimedia</em></p>
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