American Dad for Conservative Values

I received this great email from my friends at Americans for Limited Government and their Liberty Action report newsletter that gives some of the dirty details in the lastest Healthcare “Reform” attempt by Pelosi and Obama. The devil is in the details folks and check out what sort of things have been inserted in this 1,900 page piece of garbage:

In order to assist people seeking to read and review the health “reform” legislation (H.R. 3962) introduced by House Democrats, the Republican Conference has compiled a list of important page numbers and provisions in the 1,990-page “Affordable Health Care for America Act:”

Page 94—Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government

Page 110—Section 222(e) requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan—and, if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions

Page 111—Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the “Health Benefits Advisory Committee”) to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase—and would likely require all Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion

Page 211—Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage  Page 225—Section 330 permits—but does not require—Members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care

Page 255—Section 345 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies under the bill—while the bill includes a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify applicants’ identity, thus encouraging identity fraud for undocumented immigrants and others wishing to receive taxpayer-subsidized health benefits

Page 297—Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health insurance—the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign

Page 313—Section 512 imposes an 8 percent “tax on jobs” for firms that cannot afford to purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health coverage; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions “at substantial risk of unemployment”—Uwith minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts

Page 336—Section 551 imposes additional job-killing taxes, in the form of a half-trillion dollar “surcharge,” more than half of which will hit small businesses; according to a model developed by President Obama’s senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to 5.5 million jobs

Page 520—Section 1161 cuts more than $150 billion from Medicare Advantage plans, potentially jeopardizing millions of seniors’ existing coverage

Page 733—Section 1401 establishes a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research; the bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britain’s National Health Service, which denies patient treatments costing more than £35,000

Page 1174—Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled “TAXES ON CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES” to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosi’s promise that “UWe will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the HouseU,” and the President’s promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under $250,000

Top Ten Tax Increases Included In H.R. 3962

TOTAL TAX INCREASE . . . . . . . . . . $729.5 Billion
*[Violates President Obama's pledge to avoid tax increases on Americas earning less than $250,000]

Should be helpful to activists, pass it on.

These are the Democrats who MUST be called every day from now until the vote, which may be as early as Saturday now. Here’s the Target 92 list on the House side to all vulnerable and Blue Dog Democrats.  Blue Dogs are in blue. Here’s the .xls and .pdf versions.  Of note, the first 40 on the list are the Blue Dogs that signed the “deficit-neutral” letter mentioned above.  Everything you need to email their staff, write letters, make phone calls and send faxes, both to their district and Capitol Hill offices.

Keep calling out to the House and to the Senate in general. Of course, you can also reach them via the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.  And of course, here is the CapWiz alert so you can contact your own members directly.

As you can see from the information above, this is possibly the worst healthcare bill they have created yet with over $729,000,000,000 in new taxes (and yes penalties by the government are a tax). I work around the healthcare industry and while there are some things that I dislike about private insurance companies, it is nothing compared to the dislike I have about our other government run healthcare plans (Medicare, Medicaid and Tenncare). We have to keep the pressure on the people in Washington to not pass any version of healthcare “reform” that is currently being sent through Congress.

One other reason to oppose this, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that allows any level of government to force its people to purchase insurance or any other item. Here is what Nancy Pelosi said to a reporter when asked that question. That response should concern every American. Keep up the pressure on our elected “leaders” to stop this from getting to the Presidents desk.

God Bless,

American Dad

Sorry for the long delay in posting on my blog. This type of antics is getting back on the blog.

One of my best friends Blue Collar Muse has posted this disturbing story that is another assault on the first amendment. Check it out:

http://conservablogs.com/bluecollarmuse/2009/10/27/az-county-gop-pols-squash-1st-amendment-rights/

God Bless,

American Dad

The BHO administration and their press corp must think that we the people are a bunch of mindless fools. They have talked since the campaign about cutting the budget and going “line by line” to find the “waste”. Well, their idea of a budget that is responsible to the American people is a $3,600,000,000,000 budget. They deem waste in the budget not bureaucratic social programs that run inefficiently, no they deem our national defense to be wasteful spending.

And just this week, after much hype by the BHO press corp about the administration responding to last weeks Tea Party events across America that saw as of right now 696,896 people showing their dislike of the government control of the private sector and runaway spending and increase taxes for every American. The Americans that came to these events were not home grown terrorists, they were Americans from all walks of life - young, old, male, female, white, black, latino, and asian – who are fed up with the Federal Government. It started with Bush and his increase in Medicare and other social programs.

Sorry to get off track. So this weeks hyped announcement was that BHO was going to ask each Cabinet member to look back at the budget to reduce his proposed budget by $100,000,000. That amount of budget cuts represents 0.0027% (100,000,000/3,600,000,000,000) and here is what BHO had to say during his first Cabinet meeting on Monday when he announced this combined budget reduction. “We have an obligation to make sure that this government is as efficient as possible, and that every taxpayer dollar that is spent is being spent wisely,” Obama said.

He cannot seriously believe that the American people will see this as meaningful. That amount of budget reduction is less than the AIG bonuses that the government that caused a bunch of problems a few months back. You and I have to start paying attention to what is going on in Washington and let them know that we will not just be sheep following mindlessly. We as Americans need to get involved again in the political process or we will find ourselves going from a Republic to an Oligopoly.

You have to make the choice and get involved in your county and state which will lead to getting involved at the national level.

American Dad

Yesterday was a great day. I arrived at Legislative Plaza in Downtown Nashville at 11:00 am and the crowd at that time easily matched up to the 600 that we had on 2/27/08. Then by 11:15 am we had over 1,500 people getting ready to protest outrageous government spending and intrusion and support lower taxes. By the time 12:00 pm rolled around the plaza was nearly completely full and we easily had 5,000 people.

There were people everywhere – on the plaza, on the steps of the plaza, along the road on Charlotte Avenue and on the hillside of the Capital Building. When all was said and done, the Capital Police estimated the crowd to be 10,000 people. It was amazing, it was NOT organized by some GOP Organization or by Fox News. Fox News was late to the game and while I love Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, they have not been there from the beginning. They will be the first ones to tell you that when people say they are the ones running this.

We really had no national big name speaker and we still had 10,000 people. There were also hundreds of cars driving down Charlotte Avenue honking their horns. Judson Phillips did a great job organizing the Nashville event and spent hundreds of hours of his personal time helping all the counties of Tennessee organize their own Tax Day Tea Party events. In the end, 50 out of 95 counties had Tea Parties Wednesday. Several counties pooled their resources and had multi-county Tea Parties. The Nashville event lasted a little over one hour and I stayed until about 1:30 pm before getting ready to head to my own county for our Tea Party event.

The Wilson county event started around 4:30 pm with live music, food and several speakers. My great friend Ken Marrero was the MC and he did an excellent job. By the time the Wilson county event started the temperature was about 50 degrees and very cool wind so I thought the turnout would be smaller. Not to mention it was a church night. However, the traffic on Mount Juliet Road was bumper to bumper and I know of some people that did not come because they could not get to Charlie Daniels Park. 

The estimated turnout for the Wilson county event was 1,400 people. I am the Vice chairman of the newly formed Wilson County Young Republicans and we had a table there and had several people sign-up to get more information or become members. It was a great day for America and it gave me hope that we can still make a difference and it starts November 2010.

This is not about Democrat or Republican, this is about returning America to a less intrusive government and lower taxes. This is about returning America to its Constitutional Principals. Don’t be fooled by the reports you are reading in the national media about this being a fringe right-wing group that is astro-turfing. I have photos of the events and videos on my Facebook page.

God Bless

American Dad

So the Department of Homeland Security today declassified a report that says anyone who disagrees with any liberal agenda item is a right-wing extremist and possible terrorist. The report sites the following as reasons to suspect an increase in recruits with no evidence to support this report:

1. The economic downturn
2. The first African American President

They say these two present unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment . They say that the right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the First African American President to recruit new members, mobilize existing members and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, BUT THEY(RIGHT-WING RADICALS) HAVE NOT YET TURNED TO ATTACK PLANNING.

In the report they also state that returning war veterans are also possible extremist terrorists. If you do not agree with the current administration or the liberal agenda on the following items:

1. Reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
2. Opposed to abortion.
3. Or opposed to Immigration. Which includes illegal immigration.
4. Opposed to firearm restrictions and weapon bans . Indicated by high volume of stockpiling of weapons and ammunition.
5. Opposed to BHO Policy changes of any kind.
6. A returning war veteran

This report is disturbing because at a time when we have stopped calling Islamic extremists terrorists and called the war on terror an “overseas contingency operation”, they are focusing on their opposition by labeling everyone that does not agree with their liberal agenda a right-wing extremist.

It has saddened me to see how quickly this country has moved to an Orwellian 1984 society. The good news is that the Tax Day Tea Party events that are taking place tomorrow will show Washington, Democrat or Republican, that we are not going to let them spend our money and raising our taxes. This is peaceful and we are not a threat. We are regular American citizens who were tired of the Bush years of wasteful spending, but these past 3 months have gone well over the line.

These American citizens are not just Conservative, Libertarian, or Republican. They are also Democrats, Moderate Democrats and Moderate Republicans are tired of the spending in Washington. Go to http:/www.taxdayteaparty.com to find an event near you and show Washington that we are not Right-wing extremists, we are American Citizens who want their Republic back.

God Bless

American Dad