Urgent Calls Needed Against ObamaCare
-- Vote is scheduled for Saturday night
-- Vote is scheduled for Saturday night
-- Vote could come as early as Monday
-- Pelosi "puppets" stab gun owners in the back
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Urgent Calls Needed Against ObamaCare Friday, November 20, 2009 Tomorrow will be as important a day as any in our lifetimes in determining whether the anti-gun health care bill moves forward. The key vote will be on shutting down a Republican filibuster of the ObamaCare bill, HR 3590. In the Senate, we are faced with a health care bill that: * Costs $2.5 trillion during its first ten years of full implementation (2014-2023); * Increases insurance premiums and imposes $376 billion in tax increases -- many on the middle class; and * Cuts Medicare by $465 billion, while increasing health costs by over $100 billion. Fox News is reporting today that the word "tax" appears 183 times in the health care bill. Is Obama serious? Is that what he and Reid want to do to us in the midst of a recession? Of course, all this increased spending -- and taxes -- means that you will have less money to spend on pursuing your real passions: like providing for your family and purchasing guns and ammunition! The strategy in the Senate is to cram this bill down the American people's throats before we have a chance to fully read and evaluate it. And the vote on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. will determine whether, at least initially, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be able to get away with this. Gun Owners of America has already gone into several states represented by key Democrats who will be central to the Saturday vote. But this is sufficiently important that all 100 senators need to know where we stand. Finally, as we have mentioned several times in the past, the mandates in the legislation will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government database that was created in section 13001 of the stimulus bill. This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned... or any determination of PTSD, or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms. And, the special "wellness and prevention" programs (inserted by Section 1001 of the bill as part of a new Section 2717 in the Public Health Services Act) would allow the government to offer lower premiums to employers who bribe their employees to live healthier lifestyles -- and nothing within the bill would prohibit rabidly anti-gun HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from decreeing that "no guns" is somehow healthier. We all need to contact our Senators right away. Do you want left-wing bureaucrats appointed by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid determining whether you should own a gun via the health care system? If not, then you need to call right away. Our gun rights -- and the fate of our economy -- are hanging in the balance. ACTION: Call your two U.S. Senators. Please urge them to vote against "cloture" on the "motion to proceed" to HR 3590. But don't be discouraged... keep calling! Also, ask your wife, your relatives, your neighbors, your church -- everyone, short of your dog -- to do the same. This is crunch time! NOTE: The alternate, non toll-free, number is 202-224-3121. ----- TALKING POINTS ----- 1) Support the filibuster of HR 3590 by voting NO on cloture. 2) Socialized health care is too expensive. I would rather spend my money the way I want to spend it! 3) Increasing my taxes during a recession is insane. 4) This bill will threaten to register me as a gun owner, because the mandates in this bill will force my medical information into the database that was created by the stimulus bill. 5) Vote NO on this bill! Brady Campaign Exploits Fort Hood Tragedy Sen. Burr Bill Protects Veterans' Rights The anti-gun zealots at the Brady Campaign will not let one tragedy go by without exploiting the victims to further their gun control aims, and the recent shooting at Fort Hood is no exception. [Read more]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers - that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish? [Continue reading]
Another Second Amendment Case Heads to the Supreme Court “Americans should not have their Second Amendment rights restricted for any reason, particularly if they choose to travel on America’s federally subsidized rail line,” said Sen. Wicker. [Read More] Gun rights, control groups find fight in health debate A Virginia-based gun rights group has taken issue with the Democrat-led healthcare proposals, saying that the proposed plans could strip citizens of their rights to own a gun. The Gun Owners of America group, which boasts more than 300,000 members, has been warning its ranks that the proposed healthcare legislation would compile the information of Americans into a government database. The group says that by using this data, the government could deem a citizen “medically unfit” to carry a gun. “All of the proposals that we’re aware of would handle people’s health data that way,” said Larry Pratt, executive director of the group. “And then you end up having a gazillion people lose their gun rights because of some medical record that someone doesn’t like, where they say, ‘Oh, that might be a danger to their self or others.’ No trial, no due process, just gone.” [Read MORE] Rep. Conyers Sees No Point in Reading the Bills Years ago, GOA's Founder and Chairman H.L. "Bill" Richardson wrote a book entitled, What Makes You Think We Read the Bills? As a former state senator, Richardson knew of the antics and dirty tricks that go on in our legislatures across the country. Today, Americans are beginning to demand that their legislators read the bills. But despite the appeals to do so, some legislators -- like Democrat Rep. John Conyers of Michigan -- are digging in their heels. Take a look at this video and see for yourself.
In What Makes You Think We Read the Bills, you'll be both amused and outraged at Sen. Richardson's tales of the day to day shenanigans in your state and national capitols. Throughout, Sen. Richardson's breezy text is the underlying theme that "this can't go on much longer, enough is enough!" He offers many thoughtful reflections on why our legislatures have gone off the tracks, and scores of helpful suggestions how to put things right. You can order your copy of What Makes You Think We Read the Bills at a special price of $4.95 plus shipping and handling. To order your copy today, please go to: http://www.gunowners.com/bookst.htm
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