The Shinola Stops Here

[Demeter]

Dear Progressive Friends and Activists,

This week the entire East Coast was hit with a massive snow storm.
But it was NOTHING compared to the relentless snow JOB coming out of
the White House and Congress on the health care bill. The lies are
flying so thick it will take a couple alerts to shovel them out all
of our way. The most important thing is that WE must speak out and
declare the TRUTH that

"The Health Care Bill Is A Total Fraud On The American People"

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1024.php

(including the latest "I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" video)

Before anything else, for those have not been paying attention, we
are NOT the right wingers. The Republicans won't vote for the bill,
but for the WRONG reasons. For them it's not vicious and exploitive
of the people enough. They in fact secretly want it to pass, because
they know it is destined to be the most despised piece of legislation
in American political history, and woe unto any Democrat who votes
for it in its present form.

Remember that we were the people who told you the TRUTH about what
was really going on, when we wrote over three months ago that Obama
had no intention of letting a public option of any kind survive. We
told you long before that the so-called "public option" was itself a
sham, a misleading impersonation of real reform (which was and always
will be single payer) that was never intended to be anything but a
transitory process device to get weak-minded liberal saps to
compromise their compromised, compromising position, until there was
nothing left.

Did you believe us then? Believe us now . . . now that anything with
even a remote chance of actually reducing our health care expenses
(Medicare buy-in, prescription drug re-importation, even a feebly
weak public option) has been systematically stripped out of the
Senate Bill on direct ORDERS from the White House, not that corrupt
members of Congress needed any serious prodding from that end.

President Obama is out there right now laying it on thick with three
primary promotional touts, all of which are such transparent bunko it
is astounding that they even need to be debunked.

First, he says the Senate Bill is a good thing because it contains a
so-called "bill of rights", and isn't that all we wanted anyway he
says, to just curtail a certain laundry list of the most egregious
medical insurance industry rip-offs. Second, he talks about how
wonderful any bill that provides health care to 30 million new people
must be. And third, he argues that the Senate bill must be something
great, because he claims the insurance companies are strongly opposed
to it.

As to the "bill of rights" spin job, how drop kick stupid do they
think we are? Wasn't it just last May that they passed with great
fanfare a so-called Credit Card Holder's Bill of Rights. Oh yes,
that's exactly the same deceptive way they framed that one too.
Didn't we just fall for this same PR ruse? The worst credit card
abuses would be stopped the sell job went. But in just the same way,
any provision that would have ensured a real reduction in
outrageously usurous credit card interest and charges (like a
reasonable cap on interest rates) was rejected.

Instead, credit card companies have played every possible game to
raise rates since, and just this week we heard that one of the worst
offenders came out with a new card with, get this, an effective
interest rate of 80%, all in full compliance with the shiny new bill
of rights law. What a mean-spirited, cruel and pathetic trick to play
on the American people. Are you starting to get it yet, folks??

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1024.php (including the latest
"I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" video)

Now, as to the 30 million new people the new bill will supposedly
provide health care for. The bill will do absolutely NO such thing.
Instead, it will FORCE 30 million new people to provide health care
for THEMSELVES, limited in their choices to an insurance kangaroo pit
run by, for, and exclusively under the effective control of the very
same rip-off insurance corporations we have now. It is the functional
equivalent of making people buy their OWN holiday gifts, at a premium
inflated price to boot, and then bragging about giving them generous
presents.

And what if some of those 30 million people can't afford to pay the
entire ransom of their new indentured health care? Well, then the
rest of the American taxpayers are forced to make up the difference,
giving the insurance companies a direct I.V. to suck the life blood
out of the American treasury.

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1024.php (including the latest
"I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" video)

Finally there is the total con job that the drug and insurance
companies are somehow now opposed to the bill that has nothing in it
that wasn't drafted to their own specifications. This of course all
flies in the face of the way they have been caught in public
celebrating what they themselves are calling their huge win.

In the first place, they are so greedy they would be crying foul if
they only got 99.9 percent of that they wanted, instead of absolutely
every bit of 100 percent. If this isn't something straight out of
Brer Rabbit, we don't know what is. "Oh, please don't throw us in the
new insurance market," they supposedly cry. Only we haven't seen any
ads run by them to try to now stop the Senate bill . . . have you?

So what do we learn from all this? The drug and insurance corporate
interests (indeed all right wingers) keep screaming and shouting
until they get what they what. And what are we supposed to do? Hold
our tongues? Trust that our political "representatives" really mean
well, while they sell us further and further down the river? Or is it
up the creek? Are we supposed to constantly compromise, and
capitulate on top of that, and unilaterally surrender at the end of
everything else, just so we can say that we passed "something"
labeled as reform. Isn't that precisely what led us to the place we
are at now?

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1024.php (including the latest
"I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" video)

C'mon folks snap out of it. Ya wanna know what political reality is?
If we had a million submissions on this action page above we could
turn this whole thing around on a dime right now. The day you
collectively declare, with numbers like that, and tell President
Obama and Congress that "the shinola stops here", THAT is when real
change can start.

We keep saying the same thing, and some day enough of you will
believe us to actually make it happen. Let that day be today. Tell
them you are not buying their snow job anymore. Because of one thing
you can be very sure, UNTIL you do, the shinola is just going to keep
getting thicker and thicker and thicker.

And here is the one click Facebook page for this same fax action.

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1024

And the Twitter reply to send, to send this message to President
Obama and all your members of Congress that way, is

@cxs #p1024

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.millionfaxmarch.com/in.htm

[Demeter]

1. "I Want To Sign Up For Medicare Too!!"

If you could sign up for Medicare right now would you do it?

That is why we have created the "I Want To Sign Up For Medicare
Too!!" Fax Action Page at the page just below.

To President Obama & Congress:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1023.php

Last week the Senate floated the idea of making it possible for
people 55-64 to buy in to Medicare. The original proposal was just
another fake health care reform scam, to try to offload those with
the most medical needs from for-profit insurance company obligations.
The problem for them is that everyone LIKED the idea so much, that it
gave people an actual glimmer of hope that real change might happen,
and they have tried to deep six the idea as fast as possible, before
the Congressional Budget Office even has a chance to score it.

But not so fast. Tell your members of Congress that YOU want to sign
up for Medicare NOW! You aren't really signing up for Medicare by
submitting the form of course. But it will send your instant fax to
them, and President Obama at the White House too. All we need is for
people to declare that is what they want, that we will accept nothing
less, and it HAS to happen.

Fax Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1023.php

And on this same page you can watch the latest of the "I'm A
Democrat, I'm A Republican" advocacy videos that everyone likes so
much, with tens of thousands of views on YouTube already and a like
number of action page submissions. This fifth installment is
subtitled, "Heavy Reading".

Use this page to tell President Obama and your members of Congress
that YOU want to sign up for Medicare too!! If we want any real
change, FIRST we must DEMAND it.

Think about it, folks. They would not be on the TV trying to sell us
so hard on fake reform measures if they did not NEED our
acquiescence. When enough people declare that we will no longer
settle for coal in our Christmas stockings, then and only them will
we get the real deal.

The page above will send your instant fax to President Obama and all
your members of Congress, for no charge to yourself, unlike all the
right wing "activist" operations that charge twenty-five dollars or
more for doing the same thing.

And here is the one click Facebook page for this same fax action.

Medicare Virtual Signup on Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1023

And the Twitter reply to send, to send this message to all your
members of Congress that way, is

@cxs #p1023

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

[ixion]

2. kicked and recommended

for the Truth! :patriot: :applause:

Thanks for posting this, Demeter.

[Tutankhamun]

3. I fear that this post is entirely accurate.

The bill really does seem like a huge con job and a corporate giveaway.

[xfundy]

4. People I trust are on both sides of this issue

And, having not actually read the bill, I (like most) can't honestly comment on it.

I'm still holding out hope that the President and his staff are smart enough not to screw us over.

"Nuthin' up my sleeve..."

... we'll see.

[Dr.Phool]

5. Kick! and rec.