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How to Contact your US Congress Man

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:14:11 +0000

Based on a true story
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So this is what happened. I called my local congress man Ciro Rodriguez and asked to speak to the legislative aid on healthcare. They ask “What’s your name and who are you with?” I said I’m just calling from the rep’s district about an issue on healthcare. They were like, please hold. And then for the next twenty minutes I was on hold. Eventually they pick up the phone and after hearing I was still there they hang up. I immediately call back and ask to speak to the legislative aid again. The new person is like, oh Bryan? he’s probably busy, and she’s like I can listen to what you have to say. Of course the conversation is a pre-taped recording of uh-hu’s and whatever that big word you just used. How can anyone expect their stuff to be passed on when it’s being translated by free interns? I asked them if sending in a fruit basket might help. They said that might help. I faxed my stuff in to. I caleld back later to see if they got it, but they couldn’t locate it but told me it was probably because so much had been coming through. Is there any hope that our representatives will actually listen to the people from their own district or just the heads of insurance and drug lobbies?

Solving the healthcare debate is simple from both sides. Let’s enact reforms that create citizen owned health care and not politician owned heatlh care. Give everyone flexible spending cards and a base insurance high deductible private insurance plan. Next enact mandatory id cards that would allow holding private encryption keys for all citizens, so we can work with private vendors to have portable medical records. This way we separate health care from health insurance. We can provide feedback to doctors on our treatment and no more filling out the same form over and over again. Have the insurance companies and doctors and citizen groups work together to establish a base line price. Not a base line set by Medicare that robs doctors and patients. The less money your doctor makes, the less he cares about your treatment and the more he cares about pushing a bunch of procedures on you to get a good profit margin.

Next contact your state representative and request a constitutional convention of state representatives. Ask them to propose and pass a US constitutional amendment for term limits for Congress and the Senate. No more than 5 consecutive terms for Congress and no more than 2 consecutive terms for Senate.

Read more about my healthcare plan here
http://blog.joezen.com/2009/07/21/my-thoughts-on-healthcare-reform.aspx

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President Cory Aquino’s historic speech before the U.S. Congress (2 of 3)

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:18:31 +0000

On September 18, 1986, just 7 months after she was swept to power by a popular revolt against dictator Ferdinand Marcos, president Corazon C. Aquino addressed the joint session of the United States Congress during her first visit to the country since she came home to bury slain opposition leader and husband Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino, Jr. in August 1983.

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G.W.Bush Declares “Freedom and Fear are at war” -Sep.20,2001

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:18:23 +0000

Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People

United States Capitol
Washington, D.C.

September 20, 2001

God bless America
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Duration : 0:6:28

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President Cory Aquino’s historic speech before the U.S. Congress (1 of 3)

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:17:30 +0000

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED! FOR POSTERITY, INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

Duration : 0:10:17

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Bush asks Congress for $700 billion bailout

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:55:12 +0000

Bailing out troubled financial institutions is becoming an established pattern, The amount of the bail out goes up but many of the same players are still in the middle of the crisis. George Bush and John (Keating 5) McCain along with the Republican political strategy – neoliberalism.

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Jason Wallace Illinois Green Party Candidate US Congress

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:12:38 +0000

Jason is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 11th District of Illinois.

Are you dissatisfied with the government? Do you want change? Do you want to improve the situation? Together we can and will fix the country we love. By voting for Jason, we can take the steps necessary to improve the country we all love.

10K08 – is Jason’s voluntary ten thousand dollar spending cap for the general election in November. We want to return our American elections to the grassroots level and move away from the corrupting influence of corporations, special interest, and wealthy private donors. Given the state of the economy, we should be more concerned with addressing the issues of our people than with how much money we can waste on political donations to buy our representatives in Congress instead of electing them. While other campaigns are raising hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in special interest money we want to let you put your two cents in as a real voter instead of cutting back-room deals with the political machine.

Jason Wallace needs your help in the fight to bring justice back to our country. Your help is essential and a donation to this non-corporate, grassroots campaign will ensure a true Representative of the people will be elected to Congress!

http://www.electwallace.us
http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
http://www.gp.org
http://www.runcynthiarun.org

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President Cory Aquino’s historic speech before the U.S. Congress (3 of 3)

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:31:43 +0000

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED! FOR POSTERITY, INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

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Gavel! United States House of Representatives Agricultural C

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:22:19 +0000

Nine (9) days to get to the gavel when we should be streaming live video to You tube in ten minute files, while retaining our own copy [Whewww hew 007:11:03:22:41:75*]] Though who would be willing to risk loosing a day if there were a way to down load You Tube videos you had posted to get them backd up on your own hard drive. Have you already tried offering that service?

Duration : 0:8:26

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