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Obama's New, Improved Leech Therapy

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We agree with Brent Budowsky, with his longterm perspective and insight into Capitol hill deal making, that Obama has absolutely NO intention of letting a truly viable public option of any kind survive. When Obama intimates that a public option is not a mandatory provision, this is not "change we can believe in", this is not even "change we'd kinda like", this is "maybe we won't bother". The only reason even the words "public option" are being allowed to hang around on the table is so they can be pushed off later. And THAT is Obama's REAL plan, the one he won't talk about in a public speech, to let the weakest possible "public option" hang around for a little while as an illusory sop for the terminally gullible, only to bleed it to death before it can actually go into effect. Yes, THIS is Obama's new "improved" leech therapy.

We would not have written all this if we were not also going to point the way to the path of salvation. It's just what it has always been. You must speak out now, you must keep speaking out, and you must never stop speaking out. There was a story the other day about how certain special interest lobby groups were forging letters to members of Congress as if they came from the public. Now, ask yourself, WHY would they even BOTHER to do such a thing if writing letters, sending emails, and making phone calls to members of Congress did NOT constitute compelling pressure, and they KNEW it? Why would they do such a thing if real activism did not work?

Here is an action page that will send a message to all your members of Congress with the message, "Any health bill without single payer is no reform at all." All you have to do is click a mouse one time and submit it. SINGLE PAYER ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1003.php

And here is a Facebook action page that does the same thing FACEBOOK SINGLE PAYER ACTION: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1003

And here is a Twitter message you can send as a reply to the gateway to do the same thing. Just enter the following in your Twitter message sending box and send it as a reply @cxs #p1003

And here is another resource, the new blog site in support of HR 676, that was, is and has always been the REAL health reform bill, single payer Medicare for all, where you can record notes of your phone calls to members of Congress where other can read the kind of responses we are getting, so we know where members of Congress are really coming from. On this same page is a link to give you all the phone numbers of your own members of Congress down to the local district office level.


And there is also an "Easy policy points" link so you have the best arguments at your finger tips. HR676 PHONE CALL BLOG: http://www.peaceteam.net/lobby.php

So one way or another, send your message. The enemies of actual change are counting on you NOT doing so. They are counting on you being lulled by our charismatic new President of the United States into thinking he stands for actual change of any kind, when in fact he sold you out day one when we brought in the so-called stakeholders and gave them an instant press conference to announce a chump change deal, the constructive equivalent of getting a coupon for a medical "happy exam". They are counting on your silence, out of politeness, out of a willingness to give the ludicrous the benefit of the doubt, or if all else fails out of defeatism and utter exasperated despair.

Go to one of the action sites, pick up the phone, and contact your members of Congress. Tell them, "Get the medical industry leeches off my back." And THEN and ONLY then we will have real health care reform. And we're shipping out the single payer health care caps just as fast as we can. No donation of any size is too small. We just want to demonstrate our support for real reform. What other activist group out there will do anything like that? Single Payer Health Care Caps: http://www.peaceteam.net/all_gifts.php We just want you to win, folks. That's why we talk to you the way we do. It isn't always pretty but it is always the truth, as these latest developments demonstrate. Please take action now. Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours.

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"Public Option" and the Risk of Reform through Regulation by Bob F on Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:39:24 AM
Water Usually Runs Downhill by Jason Paz on Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:02:59 PM
Obama - Snake Oil Salesman - Corporate Tool by 911TRUTH on Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:50:42 PM
Billionaires for Wealthcare by 911TRUTH on Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:10:55 PM
My Sentiments Precisely by Herbert Calhoun on Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:04:17 PM