Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Call and Write Your Senators About Harry Reid's Health Care Plan
Letters to my Senators regarding Harry Reid's "health care plan."
Dear Senator Nelson,
I implore you to respect the wishes of your constituency and vote against the pending health care legislation before the Senate. While the intentions of some may be good, the end result will be long term massive costs, increases in taxes and health care costs, and loss of services as budget restrictions force rationing of services.
The American people are far better at determining their own personal health care needs than 100 Senators and 435 Congresspersons who have little regard for the well being of their constituency.
To foist these overbearing measures on the 80% in order to supposedly provide for the 20%, a dubious justification at best, is not only wrongheaded, but indicative of the need for term limits to return elected officials to the states they hail from and limit political inbreeding in Washington.
We do not need the kind of health care reform Washington politicians are proposing, we need new representative who are more interested in statesmanship and the will of the people. Not a group of lemmings who blindly follow the party leadership.
Vote no on the Harry Reid led charge to decimate our health care system.
Dear Senator LeMieux,
Thank you for remaining steadfast in opposing the wrong headed and dangerous health care legislation pending before the Senate.
If our economy has even a possibility of recovery, this legislation will at best delay it, at worst, plummet us into a miserable decline.
The damage this legislation will inflict on the delivery of health care, on the health of individuals, and the economic health of families has been sorely underestimated.
Medicare currently costs many multiples of the originally stated cost. Senate Democrats have had to, in similar fashion to the University of East Anglia Climate "researcher", fudge the numbers and creatively skew them to show a "balanced" bill.
The truth is the ever increasing costs will result in massive deficits and/or unbearable taxation of American families that will be required after the stated 10 year “balanced” projections.
Thank you again for your stalwart opposition to this attempt to destroy our health care system, our economy and our nation.
I you haven't written and called your Senators, do so now, the time is short and the future of our nation and our economic well being is at stake.
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"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: Bill Nelson, George LeMeiux, Harry Reid, health care, politics, Senate, voting
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Big 3 Bailout thoughts
I wrote the following to Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida on his "No" vote to on the "Cloture Motion; Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008". A yes vote would have allowed the Senate to move forward on this bill, to which leaders intended to attach auto financing and restructuring legislation
Thank you for voting "No" on the Cloture Motion to the "Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008."I wrote a similar note to Sen. Bill Nelson who voted "Yes" on the motion. Except I extended my disappointment at his vote.
While I am fundamentally opposed to government intervention in free markets, that's in large part what got us into the financial and housing meltdown to begin with, if there is going to be government intervention, there must be concessions on "all" sides.
That the unions refused to even consider concessions to help their employers to become more competitive and preserve blue collar jobs is case in point of the arrogance they have fostered.
In tough times everyone needs to be willing to do what is necessary to keep their business viable, unions included.
That said, the very best method for the big 3 to deal with the problem of mismanagement, poor market prognostication and burdensome union contracts is the very Darwinian yet efficient method of Chapter 11 reorganization.
With good decisions they will come out stronger, more competitive and positioned for future growth and profitability without eating at the public trough.
I need my blue collar, Postal Service, earnings to support my family, not those of mis-managers and unionized extravagance.
We must each become involved in the political process and tell our representatives what we think of their actions. Our Senators and Representatives are in Washington to "represent" each of us, the voter, the constitutent, not their own self interests and personal philosophies.
They must listen to us and seriously consider our wishes on the issues. If not, we have the responsibility in our Republic to go to the voting booth and replace them.
But if we fail to provide guidance and feedback, the onus falls on each of us for the actions they take with which we disagree. So take time to get involved, learn about the issues and write your political representatives, it's your future, and that of your children and grandchildren.
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: Big 3 bailout, Bill Nelson, financial crisis, Mel Martinez, politics, Senate
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
An open letter to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL),
While I am appreciative of your negative vote on H.R. 1424, I question whether your reasons were the same as mine.
The socialist shifts legislated in 1424 are an affront to our Republic and I fear that Section 110 will cause more damage to our nation and our economy than even the provisions of Section 101.
Short-term relief to mortgage holders who made poor decisions will result in undermining confidence in our nations banks and financial institutions even more so than current events have.
The underlying cause of the current financial and mortgage crisis originated in a Congress which, putting politics over the nations good, created legislation, the Community Reinvestment Act, that served to embolden activist groups to badger, sue and force institutions into making loans that were imprudent and unjustifiable.
It encouraged individuals to purchase homes far beyond their ability and means. Not unlike a Ponsi scheme, when the bubble burst, those caught in it’s midst found a hell hole where there should have been a castle.
Members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, voted to encourage and allow Freddie and Fannie to dangerously expose their portfolios to these sub-prime notes in an effort to further expand home ownership by many who could not afford the responsibility of such.
While the individuals were certainly to blame to letting their greed and dreams overcome commonsense, and the lenders are to blame for not resisting the dangers of making such loans on the promise of increasing profitability, it is squarely on Congress where the blame must fall for creating the social engineering scheme that created this mess.
While Democrats demonize the current administration and Republicans, and there is blame to go around, the record clearly shows that this administration and certain Republican members raised a clarion call several times since 2001. It was the Democrat members who, though in minority, used procedure to kill these efforts to reign in those out of control entities.
Mr. Barney Frank was a primary contributor to killing these attempts and he should be a primary target of investigation for deliberately ignoring his fiduciary duty to the American people.
But Mr. Frank is not solely to blame. Every member of Congress who participated in this social engineering scheme is a fault and in my opinion should be turned out of Congress.
It is imperative that if this Republic, this great American experiment in democracy, is to survive, the People need representatives who truly represent the interest of the people. I fear this Congress is enamored with their own selves, with their quest for power, and have lost that vision, assuming they ever subscribed to it.
Write your Representative: How did they vote?
Write your Senators: How did they vote?
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
Labels: Barney Frank, Bill Nelson, democracy, Democrats, financial crisis, HR1424, legislation, mortgage crisis, Republicans, socialism