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1) Send the letter below to ALL your email contacts:
2) Put your elected representatives' phone numbers on your speed dials
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You can get their phone numbers at House.gov and Senate.gov.
3) Call and tell the receptionist you are a constituent,
and you want the congressperson to support your issue.
4) (Please read, revise and forward this letter to your representatives.)
You can send this letter to your State Representatives at this address AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Dear Representative:
What are you guys doing for "THE PEOPLE"?
According to News Sources you are passing laws to give Hospital Corporations and Insurance Companies more profit.
In addition to bailing out banks and manufacturers, we "the taxpayers" will now get FINED???? for being unable to afford health insurance?
What are you thinking when you say "hardship exemption" in this bill?
Isn't 1000 dollar fine a hardship for any working family???
What happened to the public option?
Did the insurance company and medical corps bribe you out of giving the general public some much needed assistance???
RE: News Reports:
...Individuals under the $829 billion Senate Finance Committee plan would be required to purchase health insurance coverage or face a fine of up to $750
....The House bill imposes a more stringent fine of up to 2.5 percent of an individual's income. Both versions include a hardship exemption for poorer Americans.
...stripping insurance companies of an anti-trust exemption that has been in place since the end of World War II.
...pushing leaders to add stronger language prohibiting the use of federal money to pay for abortions under new health care reforms.
...aides admit they still need to find compromise wording on abortion, but they are confident the issue will be resolved by the time the bill gets to the floor.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
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This essay is not meant to be read as a complaint, nor stereotypical opinion of the population in general.
ReplyDeleteBut there are days when even the optimist would feel that society is at the mercy of the actions and behaviors of a few.
For example, when considering the news coverage concerning the state of the economy, public health, and issues of immigration; hoarding and lack of benevolence seem to be among the most significant behaviors of the leaders of our population.
Bankers, medical staffers, insurance companies, and politicians take more than they need while they attempt to pass laws for rationing what is left of the necessities to the “rest of us”
And speaking of law, doesn’t society of late bombard us with too much of "the law"?
If we were to be honest, wouldn't we all admit that there are just a few too many "laws"? Criminal Justice? What is that? What makes one human more worthy to create, to judge and even to "enforce" these laws.
Every station on the television network seems to be seething with "crime investigators" . The majority of news reported is "law enforcement stories" . Are the citizens of America so evil that we warrant more surveillance, phone tappings and more jails.
Our minds are filled to the brim with "cops who lie to trap lying criminals". We read daily of judges who sentence the impoverished,powerless, ignorant or otherwise disadvantaged, while letting the "wealthier and more popular" walk free for similar and sometimes worse offenses.
Prime time news programs investigate stories about politicians who seem to have no sense of morality, but never-the-less are entrusted to write the laws which they (the lawmakers) seem not to obey, nor abide.
Just this morning I turned on the news to hear a man report the he had been arrested for overlooking the fact that he should close his curtains in case someone should decide to wander through his back yard and peer through his window. This would seem a little backwards to me. I always pictured the "peeper" to be the "pervert". Children who watch"cops" and probably wary of the iron fist neglect to tell on peers for gang violence and are arrested for not cooperationg with "law enforcers".
Recently we saw legislatures debate the need for a law to prosecute people more effectively for hurting another on the basis of race or sexual preference. Could this be due to the fact that this is tier majority, not the majority of the general public.
I guess my point is that if we should be “damned for our sins” (as the law sees fit to say), how many ways can you persecute someone for the same offense?
Why isn't everyone punished equally?
Do harsher penalties stop the judges from impending them carlessly?
In the event that the "criminal" survives time served, who has compassion for him/her once they are released. "the record is permanent and so is punishement. How can a person find employment after being "labeled a criminal" by the very people who unfairly let their own "contacts" go free. Doesn't the law cause some of the hardships they seek to remedy?
Where is the “chance for redemption” or even “forgiveness”? When will the law be just?
When will society learn that condemnation is not THE ONLY Alternative, but part of the problem.
Shouldn’t we all be damned to hell for our first evil thought? Aren’t we all evil at some moment in our lives?
How many laws will it take to change the world ?