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Open Letter To Mary Landrieu
Dear Senator Mary Landrieu,
In the words of Ricky Ricardo, you got some splainin’ to do. This state is clearly against this health care bill and you voted to move it forward despite the overwhelming wishes of your constituents. Avoiding your constituents can not continue to be your response. Reserving and filling the front four rows with people who are obviously for the health care bill at a town hall only serves as an indication that you are more interested in advancing this agenda than serving your constituents. Don’t hide from your constituents over this Thanksgiving break, don’t stay in Washington D.C., come home and face your community, that is, if you still have an inkling of care for this community.
Come home, hit the airwaves, and tell the people exactly what this bill will do that you liked it enough to vote for it. Tell us, and cite the pages so that we may verify that those very provisions that you are talking about are in there. “Uh, Uh” is not an adequate excuse. Niether is pushing forward this agenda for the sake of change. Many of your fellow Democrats have figured out that our nation would be much better off with either Bush or Clinton in office, and you are betraying even them. With Obama, “Change” means, changing everything about this country, even things that make us a good country, and especially the things that make us a great country.
Senator Landrieu, certainly you have noticed that this President has chosen not to judge the terrorist who shot up Fort Hood, but quickly judged an officer as acting stupidly, even as the President admitted he did not know all the facts. Perhaps you noticed when this President sat idly by and did nothing to aid the people of Iran in their attempt to overthrow a dictator, a dictator, mind you, that is hostile to this country when those people are not, and yet quickly coming to the defense of wannabe dictator Manuel Zelaya and criticizing a legal coup. He denounced the coup saying it was the end of coups in Central America, and yet he sided with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Daniel Ortega, all who held their own bloody coups and leading their respective nations into poverty. The evidence is mounting against this President and he shows little interest in taking a more pro-America stance. It’s not about race, it’s not about gender, it’s not even about political parties anymore, as even many of your fellow Democrats are beginning to break away. Will you choose to side with your fellow Louisianians, or will you side with the him?
You campaigned for re-election running far away from the current administration, but quickly ran into their arms like a distraught teenaged girl. How disappointing you have been to this state. Mary, tell us what you liked about this bill, these four reams of a paper monstrosity, and cite the pages. Do you like that it ends HSA’s, of which many of your constituents are happy with and serves as a cheaper alternative? Don’t just come back with the Harry Reid talking points that we can get off of any talk show, give us real substance.
And one last thing Senator, do as you wish, but if you vote for this bill and you won’t listen to your constituents, if you won’t take your job serious, then I ask that you resign so that this state might have two Senators representing this state, instead of just one.
avman @ November 23, 2009
Sorry, Avman, but you’re wrong. Here’s the deal, Mary.
I don’t give a Tinker’s Dam why you like the bill, frankly. Here’s what I want to know.
First, give me the constitutional authority for this legislation. Until you can do that, go no further.
STOP. Until you can do that, GO NO FURTHER.
Second, give me the justification for the Fed interfering in private interprise and taking over a major portion of our private economy: give me one good reason why that is a justifiable stance.
Third, give me the justification for legislation that creates yet another huge deficit in a federal budget that has set records for debt. And do NOT give me this “affordable healthcare” hogwash: I’m long past the age when I believed the government gives things to people for free. Someone has to pay for it, Mary.
IF you can answer those questions (and you cannot, or you already would), then sit down and make yourself comfortable, because I have a whole list of additional ones. Starting with “Why don’t you come to your district, and actually talk to your voters in an open forum (without tricks) and see what they want from you?”
As for me, I can sum up what I want from you easily. I want your head: clearly you’re not using it.
Any body else want to make a public statement to Landrieu?
Sen. Landrieu has only one constituency, her voter base in New Orleans. The rest of the state means nothing to her. When she speaks of helping the poor of this state, it is double-speak for the inner city dwellers of New Orleans. However, I go back to where the fault lies for her actions; the voters of Louisiana. The people of New Orleans turn out to vote (Even some of the dead ones) while only 10 - 13% of the rest of the state voters bother. Sadly, we are reaping what we deserve.
Senator Landrieu,
We do not have a healthcare problem, we have an insurance problem. When you boil the numbers down eliminating illegal immigrants, young people who don’t want to pay for it etc. you wind up with about 12 million people who want it but can’t afford it, which is the problem. Eighty-five percent of policy holders are happy with their insurance In other words insurance policy holders are at least twice as happy with their insurance as they are with their politicians. So again what is the rush to destroy the private insurance system? And don’t hand me that tired language that you can keep your insurance if you are happy with it. When you put the numbers into the macros these companies will not last long, Aetna has already started to lay people off in anticipation of the passage of this monstrosity. Left over stimulus money could pay for private policies for those that want it, if that were the goal. If we had competition across state lines the price would be reduced for all. If we had tort reform like Texas the cost would go down. The opposition party has brought many of these things to the table but, they have been ignored.
Does Harry Reid want this? Does Nancy Pelosi want this? Or has this been ordered by Barak Obama.
This is not about healthcare and I think you know it. This is much more sinister than that, this is about total power, but power at what cost?
Have you ever wondered why this health care has to be done this fast. Have you ever wondered why the stimulus and cap and trade have been rushed through this fast? Have you ever wondered why you shouldn’t waste a good crisis? Why is H1N1 being given pandemic crisis status when it has been an unusually mild flu season? When have you ever pushed through something this big this fast, when has this ever happened before? The truth is it never has.
Have you ever heard of the Cloward-Pivan strategy,… Google it then consider this. The debt is at $12,000,000,000.00, do you know what a trillion dollars looks like? If you stacked one thousand dollar bills one on top the other the stack would be 64 miles high, 12 trillion if you laid it out sideways would be a hundred miles short of crossing Texas on I-10. So our debt is twelve trillion dollars, 500 % of GDP, our government is spending money like a lottery winner on cocaine, how much more can we pile on before the economy craters under its own weight? It appears that Barak Obama is trying very hard to destroy our economy. If he is sincere about saving the economy, an econ 101 student would do a better job and we know that Barak Obama is a very intelligent guy. This has to be on purpose, has he filled you in on his intentions? We are already dancing around the constitution; will it be suspended at some point? If you collapse the system what happens then? What will happen when the dollar is worthless? How will the Chinese be paid off? Will they be repaid with our oil, gas and coal? Will we pay the Chinese for our energy at that point? Will we repay them with our national forest land so that they can come over and strip mine it or just harvest all the trees? Our natural recourses will be the only thing of value we have left. Again this is not about healthcare this is about power.
In the grand scheme of things, Barak Obama see’s a future where the country is totally dependent on government. You have already seen this future in your district. Look at the people of New Orleans that for generations have been dependant on the government for everything. A big storm came and they turned to the government to take them out of harm’s way. The government told them to leave and left them to their own devices. But the people were so dependant and living so close to the edge on the crumbs given to them by the compassionate government welfare state , that when the nanny state officials left to save themselves, the people were left behind to die. Do we yet know today how many died in that filthy water? In the course of my work I have been in the Family Dollar stores in Memphis or New Orleans where I have seen a poor person nervously palming a couple of bucks trying to decide if they are going to buy bath soap or soap for their cloths. You could cut the despair with a knife and that is Obama’s vision for the future. Are you going to sign your name to that Mary? Well are you?
At some point our elected officials have taken on the notion that we work for them but it’s not that way. If Barak Obama succeeds on this path of destruction, the people in flyover country will be asking themselves an entirely different set of questions that you really don’t want to know about. Just know this and know it well that we are not European sheep, we will not roll over, and we will not stand for tyranny.
Something something death star
Lafayette, La
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AINTTHATPEACHY, I have to disagree with you. We do not have a healthcare problem (as you say). We ALSO do not have an insurance problem. What we have is a Government Intervention problem. And we better start solving the right problem, or it’s going to bite us in the butt.
“12 million people want insurance but can’t afford it, which is the problem”. No, it’s not. Sorry, but this fact (IF it is a fact) simply is not any issue that warrants government interference in the free market system.
I want a 4-door 4X4 Ford pickup, but I cant afford it. Probably never be able to afford it. Now, in this world, I pretty much HAVE to have transportation (medical care). But I DO NOT HAVE either a right to transportation OR a right to some particular form or level of transportation. What I have is the right to get off my skinny butt and work for enough money to afford the kind of transportation (healthcare) I want. Until I get MYSELF in a better situation, I have to live with whatever transportation (healthcare) I can afford. That may be a 15 year old Toyota pickup with no paint and no A/C that I have to spend all my spare time working on because I can’t afford a mechanic (been there). But if that’s the case, and I don’t like where I am, then I can work to better my situation.
BECAUSE I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO EITHER INSURANCE OR HEALTHCARE. NONE.