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The Coffee Party is coming...
My friend Lloyd turned me on to this growing movement called the Coffee Party. Here is the web site.
http://coffeepartyusa.com/
What follows is a post that Lloyd wrote about the Coffee Party and some questions contained in a letter he wrote to Mitch McConnell.
After watching Annabel Clark's YouTube video, explaining how the Coffee Party began, I decided to make my first contribution to the Coffee Party and write a letter to Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_5HvnFEv0
Why Mitch McConnell? Because he has been on the forefront in opposition to President Obama's efforts at reforming health care here in the United States.
"If the Democrats' health care bill passes, every Republican running in an election this fall will campaign on repealing it", Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday.
"You ignore the overwhelming desires of the American people at your own peril," McConnell said. "This is politically toxic in the extreme."
In the spirit of Annabel's statement I decided to remain civil and ask Senator McConnell a few questions regarding his stance against health care reform.
I wanted to know how it is fiscally responsible for uninsured Americans to use their local hospital emergency rooms as their primary physicians office at a cost up to 10 times that of a primary physician. I gave him the example of treating an ear infection at a local hospital emergency room, costing nearly $1000, as opposed to the same treatment costing under $100 at a primary physician's office. I asked him if he knew that the American tax-payer pays the bill in both cases.
I wanted to know why it's ok for him to have the best tax-payer funded health care in America while those same tax-payers aren't entitled to the same coverage. I suggested that he and all those opposed to the President's plans immediately cancel their tax-payer funded health care plans and buy coverage on the open market.
I wanted to know how he felt knowing that the majority of bankruptcies now being filed in America are due to medical costs.
These are just a few questions I posed to the Senator. I hope he responds. If not, I hope he at least do a little soul searching and find some compassion for those with pre-existing conditions who have no where to turn.
In watching Annabel's video, one of the words she used several times was "Obstructionist". I believe this best describes the actions of many on the Right.
I hope my letter was written in the true spirit of the Coffee Party. I bit my tongue a few times trying not to be disrespectful to the Senator.
Tell me what you think. Feel free to copy and paste or edit this letter and send it to your own Congressional or Senatorial representative.
Doing nothing is no longer an option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVwVlvVYlwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm0tX7tqncM
Lloyd "Proud Democrat" and now "Proud Coffee Party Member".
http://coffeepartyusa.com/
What follows is a post that Lloyd wrote about the Coffee Party and some questions contained in a letter he wrote to Mitch McConnell.
After watching Annabel Clark's YouTube video, explaining how the Coffee Party began, I decided to make my first contribution to the Coffee Party and write a letter to Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_5HvnFEv0
Why Mitch McConnell? Because he has been on the forefront in opposition to President Obama's efforts at reforming health care here in the United States.
"If the Democrats' health care bill passes, every Republican running in an election this fall will campaign on repealing it", Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday.
"You ignore the overwhelming desires of the American people at your own peril," McConnell said. "This is politically toxic in the extreme."
In the spirit of Annabel's statement I decided to remain civil and ask Senator McConnell a few questions regarding his stance against health care reform.
I wanted to know how it is fiscally responsible for uninsured Americans to use their local hospital emergency rooms as their primary physicians office at a cost up to 10 times that of a primary physician. I gave him the example of treating an ear infection at a local hospital emergency room, costing nearly $1000, as opposed to the same treatment costing under $100 at a primary physician's office. I asked him if he knew that the American tax-payer pays the bill in both cases.
I wanted to know why it's ok for him to have the best tax-payer funded health care in America while those same tax-payers aren't entitled to the same coverage. I suggested that he and all those opposed to the President's plans immediately cancel their tax-payer funded health care plans and buy coverage on the open market.
I wanted to know how he felt knowing that the majority of bankruptcies now being filed in America are due to medical costs.
These are just a few questions I posed to the Senator. I hope he responds. If not, I hope he at least do a little soul searching and find some compassion for those with pre-existing conditions who have no where to turn.
In watching Annabel's video, one of the words she used several times was "Obstructionist". I believe this best describes the actions of many on the Right.
I hope my letter was written in the true spirit of the Coffee Party. I bit my tongue a few times trying not to be disrespectful to the Senator.
Tell me what you think. Feel free to copy and paste or edit this letter and send it to your own Congressional or Senatorial representative.
Doing nothing is no longer an option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVwVlvVYlwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm0tX7tqncM
Lloyd "Proud Democrat" and now "Proud Coffee Party Member".
Tags: America, Politics, coffee_party, grassroots, honesty
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Bates on
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" Iwanted to know how it is fiscally responsible for uninsured Americans to use their local hospital emergency rooms as their primary physicians office at a cost up to 10 times that of a primary physician. "
I want to know why you folks think that it's the Federal governments job to insure that private citizens are "fiscally responsible". More governmental control in every area of our lives, eh? -
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Permalink Reply by Vernon Windsor on
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"By way of a postscript, one of the many faceless radio talk show wingnuts, Jim Quinn, this week called President Obama a "Kenyan wuss" who should be "slapped silly." The Kenyan lie and the "slap silly" insult aside, this president is no wuss. You know how I know? He's a black man who ran for president and won despite the growing mob of gun-toting militant white bigots like Jim Quinn who are sucking air in America. President Obama achieving this despite the hatred and threats against him takes serious guts. Guts that Jim Quinn and the tea party movement will never understand."
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Permalink Reply by Mark Mentzer on
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I am more and more leaning towards socialism. I want my government to do something for me for the taxes I pay. I'm sick and tired of getting shit on in this world while I keep paying more and more. It's clearly taxation without representation.
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"I asked him if he knew that the American tax-payer pays the bill in both cases."
Only after the left passed laws ensuring that the "American tax-payer pays the bill in both cases". -
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Permalink Reply by ZenDog on
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Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high - White House- msnbc.com
Mar 3, 2009 ... NBC/WSJ poll shows gap between popularity of president and his policies ... By comparison, the Republican Party — which resisted Obama's ...
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"I wanted to know why it's ok for him to have the best tax-payer funded health care in America while those same tax-payers aren't entitled to the same coverage."
I'd think that the left would be ashamed to bring this up, since EVERY version of Obamacare that has surfaced, deliberately fails to address this issue. -
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"In watching Annabel's video, one of the words she used several times was "Obstructionist". I believe this best describes the actions of many on the Right."
Count me in as an "obstructionist" also, along with 59% of the American electorate. -
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You can laugh all you want.
Did you know that the President still garners a favorable rating in the polls exceeding that of either party by a whopping one hundred percent? -
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As to your liberal friends "Me Too" coffee party, we conservatives are laughing.
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Laughing should make a nice change for you from whining. Enjoy it while you can.
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I shall and I'll still be laughing in November, Vernon!
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