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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: MrsSmith on August 15, 2009, 06:09:17 PM
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Healthcare controversy comes to my hometown
Written by Warren Throckmorton
August 14, 2:31 PM (http://online.worldmag.com/2009/08/14/healthcare-controversy-comes-to-my-hometown/)
Yesterday, while passing through the two blocks that make up the downtown area of Grove City, Pa., I saw something you rarely ever see in my hometown—people holding protest signs. One woman waving at passing cars held a handmade one that read: “‘Obamacare’ makes me sick.†On a sleepy late Thursday morning I had happened upon a healthcare reform protest rally.
The protesters were organized (is that a bad word now?) by the conservative organization Americans for Prosperity and a large bus wrapped with the slogan “Hands Off My Health Care,†served as a backdrop.
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Menefee is leading an effort to gather signatures on a petition opposing the healthcare reform plan to take to legislators in Washington, D.C.
In just about an hour, the Patients First team gathered more than 130 signatures, with some townsfolk lining up to keep the bus around longer than planned in order to make sure their names were included. To big city folks, 130 may not seem like many signatures, but on a weekday late morning in a small town like Grove City, it’s a lot.
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The petition summed up another concern voiced by Urmson and others present: more government control of our lives. Right or wrong, these protesters reflect an increasingly nervous sector of Americans who have seen the financial and automotive sectors come under increasing federal control. For them, that’s change they don’t believe in.
Recently, the Obama administration has criticized such worried and disgruntled citizens as being organized by special interests. At the same time, the Fund for the Public Interest, a progressive organization, is offering to pay workers $10 to $15 an hour to work on behalf of the administration’s plan. Looking around the main street of my hometown, I saw the bus paid for by Americans for Prosperity but I also saw individuals like Eilene Urmson.
She wasn’t being paid to be there.
Pres Obama...the King of Astroturf
And as much a :censored: hypocrit as any of the DUmmies.