May 20, 2009

1907 Teddy Roosevelt on immigration

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago.
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Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

LAST CALL -- MAY 21 -- AFA-MICHIGAN BANQUET with Erin Bethea,star of the movie Fireproof

 
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E-mail us your reservations between now and Thursday, or
buy tickets at the door.  We look forward to seeing you!
 
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Email Alert from AFA Michigan.org
 
FIREPROOF co-star
 ERIN BETHEA
to keynote
 AFA-Michigan
2009 Banquet
__________________________________________________________
 
    Please put Thursday, May 21st, on your calendar and plan to join us for the American
    Family Association of Michigan's 2009 annual banquet in Oakland County.
 
    Advance Reservations Recommended -- Seating is limited, and especially given this
    year's program, we expect full capacity crowd.
 
    Please contact our Events Coordinator Nicole Stahl
    at AFAMIReservations@comcast.net to make reservations
    to ensure you and your spouse and guests get seats.
 
    Our banquet keynote speaker this year
    will be Erin Bethea, co-star of America's
    number one-ranked inspirational movie,
    FIREPROOF.  Erin plays the wife of the
    fireman played by Kirk Cameron.
    Official website: http://www.fireproofthemovie.com
 
 
    We also expect to present a videotaped greeting from former
    Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, 2008 presidential candidate
    and now host of the Fox News TV program "Huckabee" as well
    as a nationally broadcast radio show, "The Huckabee Report."
 
    Tickets to AFA-Michigan's 2009 banquet will be
    $50 per person, with one ticket FREE if you
    sponsor a table of ten for $450.
 
    Gov. Mike Huckabee
 
    As in past years, our banquet will be held
    at the beautiful Addison Oaks Conference
    Center at 1480 West Romeo Road in
    Leonard, Michigan, located in northeastern
    Oakland County.
 
    See Addison Oaks at:
    
    6:00 p.m.     Silent Auction
    6:45 p.m.     Banquet and Program
 
   
    If you live in Oakland County or nearby, please also contact Nicole if you would
    like to volunteer to help with this event.
 
    We deeply appreciate your support, which makes all that AFA-Michigan does possible.
 
    And we look forward to seeing you and your family and guests on May 21st!
 
    God bless and keep you strong...
 Gary
    Gary Glenn, President
    American Family Association of Michigan
 
 
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AP- Utah's GOP governor seeks more moderate party

Maybe Huntsman should be having lunch with the RINO Club?  What you say Colin Powell?
 
RGeorge
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:28 AM
Subject: ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Utah's GOP governor seeks more moderate party

"(Gov. Jon Huntsman, R-Utah) has said he favors civil unions for gay couples even though he backed a state constitutional amendment passed in 2004 that prohibited same-sex marriage.  Huntsman has begun feeling the heat for his apparent leftward tilt.  Officials in Michigan last month canceled a GOP county fundraiser where Huntsman was to speak; they said he had abandoned important party principles.  The move was applauded by the American Family Association of Michigan, which has worked to ban gay marriages.  'In terms of who should be a leader of the party, you would expect them...to be faithful to the principles of the platform,' said the group's president, Gary Glenn."

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Salt Lake City, Utah
May 14, 2009
 
 
Utah's GOP governor seeks more moderate party
 
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Republicans seeking a path out of the political wilderness are eyeing Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Mormon who's nudged the conservative stronghold in a more moderate direction on the environment and gay rights and drawn praise from President Barack Obama's campaign manager.

The popular, 49-year-old Huntsman has spoken publicly of the need to open the Republican Party to a wider range of viewpoints if it is to attract younger voters. He's won praise from party elders, including 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who called the governor a potentially promising contender in 2012.

Huntsman has earned the respect of Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, whose election operation helped bring millions of new voters into the Democratic Party.

Plouffe said Huntsman is a Republican who "seems to understand the party has to adjust - not stubbornly believe that everything is OK and it is the country that has to change."

Huntsman, a married father of seven who made millions running his family's chemical company, is taking the sudden attention in stride.

"People are unsettled, they're looking to the future, they're trying to find a sense of direction and I don't know if in my 30 years of party involvement that I've ever seen or heard of a period quite like this before," Huntsman told The Associated Press in an interview at the governor's mansion.

Asked frequently whether he will seek the presidency, Huntsman always demurs, saying it would be premature to speculate about the future.

Huntsman's path to the presidency may not be easy. He's angered conservatives on a number of issues.

He signed an initiative that would set a regional cap-and-trade effort to reduce global warming. Over the objection of many in heavily Mormon Utah, Huntsman loosened the state's restrictive liquor laws to make it a more appealing destination for visitors.

Most notably, he has said he favors civil unions for gay couples even though he backed a state constitutional amendment passed in 2004 that prohibited same-sex marriage.

Huntsman has begun feeling the heat for his apparent leftward tilt.

Officials in Michigan last month canceled a GOP county fundraiser where Huntsman was to speak; they said he had abandoned important party principles.

The move was applauded by the American Family Association of Michigan, which has worked to ban gay marriages.

"In terms of who should be a leader of the party, you would expect them ... to be faithful to the principles of the platform," said the group's president, Gary Glenn.

Huntsman's views on climate change have drawn criticism from U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the governor's former chief of staff. At the state GOP convention last year, Chaffetz taunted the governor for raising concerns about global warming.

"Jon Huntsman, as much as I like you, you're wrong on global warming. It's a farce," Chaffetz said to raucous applause.

Another potential problem for Huntsman is his Mormon faith. Many Christian conservatives, who are an important part of the GOP electoral base, believe it is a cult.

In 2008, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney - a wealthy Mormon businessman like Huntsman - lost the GOP nomination to McCain, in part because of resistance from Christian conservatives. In an interview this past week, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Romney's faith was a major factor in his defeat.

Romney is likely to seek the nomination again in 2012.

Nonetheless, many political observers believe Huntsman's liabilities among GOP base voters are the very qualities that could help him expand the party's demographic appeal.

"The difficulty facing the governor is exactly the difficulty facing the Republican Party, where they've got a base that is very opposed to gay marriage but societal trends seem to be moving in the other direction," Brigham Young University political scientist Quin Monson said.

In most respects, Huntsman is a traditional conservative. He favors restrictions on abortion, has worked to reduce state taxes and supports publicly funded vouchers for private school.

Huntsman has won record-setting approval ratings in Utah, in part by appealing to centrist voters and the relatively small number of Democrats in the state. He won a second term last November with 78 percent of the vote.

Huntsman has pledged not to seek a third term, sidestepping the threat of a potential conservative primary challenge. He has traveled the country and raised money for other Republicans, promoting the view that the party must renew its vision outside the confines of Washington.

"You can't hornswoggle the public into following you. You must prove the point through substantive offerings, and that's where we're having a challenge," Huntsman said. "Once you get several different ideas out there under the leadership of many Republican governors, you might have the making of at least a comeback from a substantive standpoint, and I would argue that's the only way the party over the short term is going to come back."

http://www.gazette.com/articles/huntsman-54026-party-gop.html


For the GOP to shift to the left would be to join the Democrat party, to which General Powell did iduring the Gneral election for President.  Out with the RINO club.  If we can't win with them, why would we call it winning with them? 

NEWS -- Discriminatory "hate crime" bill passes Michigan House but loses support

Rep. Joel Sheltrown and Douyg Bennett deserve praise for their stand up character.
 
Quote from below:  All House Democrats voted for the bill except Rep. Doug Bennett, D-Muskegon, and Rep. Joel Sheltrown, D-West Branch.  All House Republicans voted against it except Rep. Larry DeShazor, R-Portage and Rep. Tory Rocca, R-Sterling Heights.  One member was absent.
 
----- Original Message -----
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Wed., May 20, 2009
CONTACT:  Gary Glenn                       989-835-7978
                      
Homosexual activists seek criminal prosecution of pastors,
others who publicly oppose homosexual political agenda
 
Discriminatory "hate crime" bill passes Michigan House with 16 fewer votes                         
                                                                                                                  Gary Glenn
House Democrats reject amendment to protect
victims of child sexual abuse from pedophiles
 
LANSING, Mich. -- The Michigan House of Representatives Wednesday passed a so-called "hate crime" bill that would create special "protected class" status for individuals who engage in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing and special enhanced prison sentences for crimes committed against them.  House Bill 4836 passed on a largely party line vote of 66 to 43, receiving sixteen fewer votes than nearly identical legislation received in the House last November, when it passed 82 to 18.
 
"The more citizens and elected officials learn the truth about the threat homosexual activists'  discriminatory Trojan Horse 'hate crime' legislation poses to religious free speech rights, the more support it will continue to lose," said Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan.  "It will die in the state Senate, and with a few exceptions, about the only politicians left supporting this so-called "hate crime" legislation are liberal Democrats whose campaigns were funded by homosexual billionaire Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo."
 
All House Democrats voted for the bill except Rep. Doug Bennett, D-Muskegon, and Rep. Joel Sheltrown, D-West Branch.  All House Republicans voted against it except Rep. Larry DeShazor, R-Portage and Rep. Tory Rocca, R-Sterling Heights.  One member was absent.
 
House Democrats gavelled down two attempted amendments by Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills.  One would have amended the bill's definition of so-called "sexual orientation" to ensure that the bill could not be used to give special "protected class" status to pedophiles, imposing harsher prison sentences on parents or others who respond physically to protect children from sexual assault.
 
"It is certainly disturbing that House Democrats opposed amending this discriminatory and dangerous bill to provide greater protection for victims of child sexual abuse," Glenn said.
 
McMillin's other amendment would have removed the bill's references to homosexual behavior and cross-dressing and left standing only its prohibition against cross-burnings and hanging of nooses intended as displays of racial intrimidation.  McMillin said that since the bill's creation of special status based on homosexual behavior will likely prevent its passage in the Senate, removing them from the bill is likely the only way the ban on cross-burnings and noose-hanging can actually be enacted into law.
 
AFA in an e-mail alert to its supporters last week said the legislation violates "the principle of equal justice under law...and would mean that a criminal who attacks a senior citizen, pregnant mom, or small child would be punished less severely -- with a shorter prison sentence -- than someone who attacks a grown man, if that grown man is involved in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing.  The notion that some victims are worthy of greater protection than others, especially if it's based on their choice of sexual behavior, is simply outrageous."

(See full copy of AFA Action Alert below)

Glenn also said HB 4836 poses a serious threat to religious free speech rights, citing the use of such "hate crime" laws in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. to prosecute Christians merely for speaking out against homosexual activists' political agenda.

"In Michigan, homosexual activists openly admit they want to see pastors and others who speak out against the homosexual agenda criminally prosecuted as 'accessories' any time a violent crime is committed against an individual who's involved in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing," the AFA e-mail alert said.

Glenn cited a Saginaw News report of its interview with prominent homosexual activist Jeffrey Montgomery, former executive director of the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based homosexual lobby:

"Jeffrey Montgomery is calling out the political extremists and religious fundamentalists whose rhetoric, he says, has fueled a steady rise in hate crimes against gays and lesbians. 'We've seen an increase in vitriolic, vociferous, vehement, demonizing rhetoric against gays and lesbians,' said Montgomery... 'The vocal anti-gay activists should be held accountable as accessories to these crimes because, many times, it is their rhetoric that led the perpetrators to believe that their crimes are OK.' ...If a criminal borrows a gun and then uses it to kill someone, the law considers the gun owner an accessory to the crime. So, too, are the people who own the words that incite violence, Montgomery said."  ("Triangle exec decries violence" by Lania Coleman, p. 4A, The Saginaw News, April 27, 2005)

He also cited a report by State News, the Michigan State University student newspaper, which quoted another prominent homosexual activist -- former Triangle Foundation director of policy Sean Kosofsky -- as saying: "We personally believe that the AFA may support the murder of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people."  http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=6737

Glenn also cited a news release issued by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 2007 which accused him and Cardinal Maida of Detroit -- merely by having publicly disagreed with homosexual activists' political agenda on marriage and other issues -- of being responsible for inciting the alleged beating death of a homosexual senior citizen in Detroit.  http://thetaskforce.org/press/releases/prMF_022307

"It is appalling hypocrisy for (Glenn and Maida) to pretend that their venomous words and organizing have no connection to the plague of hate violence against gay people, including the murder of Mr. Anthos," the NGLTF statement said.  

Glenn said homosexual activists and their political allies -- including Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who condemned the purported "hate crime" on the U.S. Senate floor -- were later embarrassed when Detroit police announced they had found no evidence of any assault and the Wayne County Medical Examiner ruled Anthos suffered a blow to the head after falling due to arthritic paralysis of his neck. (See Associated Press, March 28, 2007: http://www.randythomas.org/blog/2007/03/hate-crime-or-arthritis.html)

The statements by Montgomery, Kosofsky, and NGLTF "make clear that homosexual activists hope to sell society and the courts on their repressive view that anyone who dares publicly disagree with their political agenda should face the threat of being criminally prosecuted, and they're not beyond fabricating false 'hate crime' claims to do it," Glenn said.

According to the AFA e-mail alert, a provision of already existing state law could be used by homosexual activists and their allies in the judiciary to justify such prosecutions.

Michigan Code Section 767.39 states: "Every person concerned in the commission of an offense, whether he directly commits the act constituting the offense or procures, counsels, aids, or abets in its commission may hereafter be prosecuted, indicted, tried and on conviction shall be punished as if he had directly committed such offense."

The word "abet" means "to encourage." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abet

 

"If HB 4836 becomes law," Glenn said, "we have no doubt that there are openly homosexual or sympathetic judges in Michigan who agree with the Triangle Foundation's propaganda strategy of accusing anyone who speaks out against their political agenda of being guilty of 'encouraging' criminal activity any time a crime is actually committed or falsely alleged to have been committed against an individual involved in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing."

 

Glenn cited as examples of judges likely to share the Triangle Foundation's legal strategy:

 

* Openly homosexual 36th District Judge Rudy Serra, Wayne County, a former member of the Triangle Foundation's board of trustees, and 57th District Judge William Baillargeon, Allegan County, a former member of the Triangle Foundation board of advisors.

 

- Serra: http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=28&thread=223286

- Baillargeon: http://web.archive.org/web/20021029115642/www.tri.org/advisors.html

 

* Triangle Pride PAC, the Triangle Foundations' affiliated political action committee, also endorsed the following sitting judges in the 2008 election: 15th District Judge Chris Easthope, Washtenaw County; 46th District Judge William Richards, Oakland County; 91st District Judge Elizabeth Church, Chippewa County; Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan, Wayne County Circuit Judges Connie Kelley and Lynne Pierce, and Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper. http://www.pride-pac.org/guide/showall.php

 

* Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway "supports (homosexual and cross-dressing) rights and issues and was strongly endorsed by" Between the Lines, a homosexual activist newsmagazine in Detroit.  Circuit Court Judges Christopher Yates and Donald Shelton were also endorsed by Between the Lines in 2008, as were District Court Judges Bill Richards and Elizabeth Church. http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=32861

 

* Ingham County Circuit Judge Joyce Dragunchuk -- whose 2005 ruling in support of homosexual activists' lawsuit against the state Marriage Protection Amendment was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals -- was endorsed by both Triangle Pride PAC and another homosexual activist group, the Lansing Association for Human Rights.

 

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Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire e-mail list of family and friends.

Michigan House of Representatives set to vote on so-called "hate crimes" bill

URGENT! Urge your state representative today to vote NO on House Bill 4836 ("hate crimes" bill)

May 11, 2009

Dear AFA-Michigan supporter,

AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn has alerted us that the Michigan House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing and vote this Wednesday morning (May 13th) on House Bill 4836, a bill to enact a homosexual "hate crimes" bill in Michigan. A vote by the full state House of Representatives is expected to occur quickly thereafter, perhaps even later the same day.

Violating the principle of equal justice under law, this so-called "hate crime" legislation would mean that a criminal who attacks a senior citizen, pregnant mom, or small child would be punished less severely -- with a shorter prison sentence -- than someone who attacks a grown man, if that grown man is involved in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing. The notion that some victims are worthy of greater protection than others, especially if it's based on their choice of sexual behavior, is simply outrageous.

"Hate crime" legislation has also proven in other countries and states to be a severe threat to religious free speech rights. In Sweden, a pastor was jailed for preaching a sermon in which he called homosexual behavior a sin. In Canada, a Catholic bishop was brought up on charges for writing in his church newsletter that marriage should remain between a man and a woman. In Philadelphia, eleven Christians were arrested for reading Bible verses out loud on a public street during a "gay pride" festival.

In Michigan, homosexual activists openly admit they want to see pastors and others who speak out against the homosexual agenda criminally prosecuted as "accessories" any time a violent crime is committed against an individual who's involved in homosexual behavior or cross-dressing.

As the Saginaw News reported:

"Jeffrey Montgomery is calling out the political extremists and religious fundamentalists whose rhetoric, he says, has fueled a steady rise in hate crimes against gays and lesbians. 'We've seen an increase in vitriolic, vociferous, vehement, demonizing rhetoric against gays and lesbians,' said Montgomery, (the openly homosexual) executive director of the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based (homosexual) advocacy group. 'The vocal anti-gay activists should be held accountable as accessories to these crimes because, many times, it is their rhetoric that led the perpetrators to believe that their crimes are OK.' ...If a criminal borrows a gun and then uses it to kill someone, the law considers the gun owner an accessory to the crime. So, too, are the people who own the words that incite violence, Montgomery said."

Or as the State News in East Lansing reported:

"'We personally believe that the AFA may support the murder of gay, lesbian and bisexual people,' (openly homosexual Triangle Foundation Director of Policy Sean Kosofsky) said."

One clear example: the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 2007 accused Cardinal Maida of Detroit and AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn by name of being responsible for inciting the alleged beating death of a homosexual senior citizen in Detroit. According to NGLTF, Maida and Glenn were responsible for this purported "hate crime" merely because they were both prominent public supporters of the Marriage Protection Amendment approved by Michigan voters. (Notably, homosexual activists' "hate crime" propaganda evaporated as soon as Detroit police announced they had found no evidence of any assault, and the Wayne County Medical Examiner ruled the man had died after falling and hitting his head due to arthritic paralysis of his neck.)

If those statements don't make clear the threat to religious free speech, please take a few moments to watch this short video that explains what can happen if the Michigan Legislature passes HB 4836, the so-called "hate crimes" bill. Watch this video and then forward it to others, especially your pastor.

Take Action!

Contact your state Representative today -- right now, before it's too late -- and urge him to vote NO on House Bill 4836, the homosexual "hate crimes" legislation.

Please forward this alert to urge your family, friends, neighbors, and fellow church members to join you in requesting a NO vote.

Thank you for caring enough to get involved.

 

Sincerely,

Don

Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

 

 

 



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Counter march Universal Health care rallies-Pontiac & Grand Rapids

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..."Health-Care Now" has two upcoming "rallies" scheduled in Michigan

We need to counter-protest these rallies!

HR676 needs to be stopped and there needs to be opposition seen by the public!

Please join me and Grassroots in Michigan for a counter protest at these locations in Grand Rapids on Saturday May 30th and in Pontiac June 9

Please e-mail me your intent to participate ...

----- Original Message -----
From: Joan
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: ACTION ALERT!

Action Alert!

 

Greetings Michigan Patriots,

 

It has come to my attention that a leftist group called "Health Care-Now"

http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/may-30th-day-of-action/

 has organized "rallies" across the country for support of  HR 676

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00676:

 

HR 676 is the "cradle to grave" government universal health care bill sponsored by MI 14th District Rep John Conyers Rep. John Conyers http://www.johnconyers.com/healthcare

 

Checking his site, you will find the list of endorsements is a coalition of top liberal/leftist and "progressive" organizations in the country.

 

You may recall that a  provision for a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, was slipped into the  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or "Stimulus bill" American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or "Stimulus Bill"  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:8:./temp/~c111LQJBGr:e361975:

 

The National Coordinator of Health Information Technology will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.  The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions (442, 446).  These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis." According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and "learn to operate less like solo practitioners." The World According to Me  http://apackof2-theworldaccordingtome.blogspot.com/2009/02/ruin-your-health-even-die-with-obama.html

 

H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act (USNHI), establishes a unique American universal health insurance program with single payer financing. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that improves and expands the already existing Medicare program to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories.

Every person living or visiting in the United States and the U.S. Territories would receive a United States National Health Insurance Card and ID number once they enroll at the appropriate location. Social Security numbers may not be used when assigning ID cards.

Proposed Funding For USNHI Program

  • Maintain current federal and state funding for existing health care programs
  • Establish employer/employee payroll tax of 4.75% (includes present 1.45% Medicare tax)
  • Establish a 5% health tax on the top 5% of income earners, 10% tax on top 1% of wage earners
  • ¼ of 1% stock transaction tax
  • Close corporate tax loopholes
  • Repeal the Bush tax cuts for the highest income earners

 

From the American Daily Review  http://www.americandailyreview.com/home-features-articles-blog/2009/5/6/hr-676-he Health-Care Now

HR 676 ... eliminating choice, and narrowing all of your options down to the single payer, specifically, the federal government.

The federal government, because they will be the ones with the money, will dictate to you what treatments, medicines, and procedures you can or cannot have..... eventually the federal government will decide that if you are too old and not able to contribute to society anymore, you don't need that arthritis pain medicine, or that new hip joint, or the medicine that will keep you from dying from a heart attack. After all, it would be a waste of money to spend precious tax dollars on an individual that no longer contributes to the collective state.... Obama's healthcare plan will add to the staggering deficit being created by the current Administration, kill hundreds of thousands of jobs connected to the private healthcare industry, reduce the income level of the medical profession forcing much of the talent to leave the industry or to not enter the industry in the first place, increase the waiting time for care, and put your health matters into the hands of federal bureaucrats with only cutting the costs of the programs in mind.

Healthcare costs will swell, quality of care will drop, and the economic stability of the federal government will weaken. The federal government cannot run, or heavily regulate, a system like this efficiently, and the hopes of turning it around once they realize it is an abysmal failure will be slim to none because the private industry will be destroyed by then.

In addition, the passage of HR 676 is listed as part of the Communist Platform 2.8  Enact HR 676, US National Health Insurance Act, single payer.  on its web site American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/bingo_call_it_communism_1.html

 

From the the Editor-in-Chief of Health Management Technology Magazine http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_676.html

 I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Health Management Technology Magazine (www.healthmgttech.com) and I'm simply a concerned citizen, like you, who thinks no industry is EVER improved by big government, it just becomes more expensive, rationed and less available.  Numerous examples exist around the world to support my belief.  My strong desire is for no one to go without adequate healthcare, but allowing the government to usurp yet another private industry is not the answer.  Incidentally, the healthcare "solution" H.R. 676 proposes is being tried on a smaller scale right now in Massachusetts and the result has been predictable — more expensive, rationed and less available — just like Canada, which is adopting privatization to save its healthcare system.  Government healthcare is not the answer anywhere that it's tried, in America or throughout the world.

www.healthmgttech.com

Michael McBride

 

"Health-Care Now" has two upcoming "rallies" scheduled in Michigan

We need to counter-protest these rallies!

HR676 needs to be stopped and there needs to be opposition seen by the public!

Please join me and Grassroots in Michigan for a counter protest at these locations in Grand Rapids on Saturday May 30th and in Pontiac June 9

Please e-mail me your intent to participate in these counter-protests and we can have a meet up location if so desired.  Suggestions for signs listed below "Day of Action" Information

Day of Action in Grand Rapids, MI

When: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Vern Ehler's office - Federal Building, 110 Michigan Street, Grand Rapids, MI
More Info: Contact
silvachr@gmail.com.

June 9, 2009, Pontiac, MI

 

Health Care Town Hall – Health Care Now 9th District

Join us for a Town Hall discussion of H.R. 676, single-payer health care with special guest speakers. Adrian Campbell, had a role in Michael Moore's movie, Sicko, will be joining us, along with other experts in the health care field.

 

We need your health care nightmare stories too. Put this event on your calendar and make sure you are there and bring a friend.

 

Be sure to RSVP on line on Facebook, or RSVP on eVite.

When: June 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m. (Food and Beverages) Forum 7-9 p.m.
Where: 1200 N. Telegraph Oakland County Commissioner's Auditorium

 

Days of Action  http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/may-30th-day-of-action/

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds  Samuel Adams

Suggested Signs

Communist Party Supports HR 676 and I am no Communist!

It worked so well in Canada!

I choose my health care not big Government!

NO Taxpayer Dollars for HR 676

Give me Liberty, not Debt

Keep HR 676, I'll keep my freedom!

YES WE CAN!…HAVE EVERYTHING FOR FREE!

If You Think Health Care is Expensive Now, Wait Until it's Free

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

 
Joan Fabiano, Grassroots in Michigan
Co-organizer of the Lansing,MI Independence Day Tea Party!
http://lansingmiteaparty.wordpress.com/
Join the Grassroots in Michigan army! http://mitcot.ning.com/
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