On Saturday, Senator Harry Reid will attempt to bring his multi trillion dollar health care bill to the floor of the Senate.  It is worth noting that he has cleverly assigned it a number (HR 3590) that has already passed both Houses of Congress.  I believe this is calculated to make it difficult for citizens to research, read and analyze the text of the bill.  If you Google H.R. 3590, the odds are you will see something like this:

H.R.3590 - Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for ther purposes.

Doesn't look much like a health care bill to me.  Move along...Nothing to see here.  Pretty damned crafty huh?

If you care, you need to contact your Senators Saturday and you need to do it early and often.  Reid wouldn't be floating this bill unless he believes he has the votes.  He needs sixty to get the thing rolling and he is buying the votes of "on the fence" and conservative Senators by dumping millions of dollars into their states.  Too bad that Congressmen don't exhibit enough integrity to make such pandering irrelevant.  In Washington DC money talks and unfortunately in this case it is saying "Vote to betray the majority of people in this Country and sell its financial and health care future down the river."  We can't let that happen.

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RussNoski   |71.217.126.156 |11-28-2009 08:41:42 Thank you for the information concerning responding to our Senators over this horrible legislation. Reply 0   0

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