Ok, so what set me off, I just got a phone call about  poor Randy Richardville who voted to eliminate the state’s Promise Scholarship.  Now I do not agree with some things Richardville does, but mostly because I do not think he does enough.  I applaud him though in taking this stand.

They blamed him for the scholarship making the cut as part of the new state budget. They want me to call him up and for him to change his mind. What they do not tell you is that this scholarship was already funded, and there was no new need for putting aside funds to make it work.  Its another case of blaming those mean Republicans/Conservatives for their own mistakes, it seems to happen a lot.

The Michigan Promise Scholarship was totally funded a few years ago by the huge tobacco settlement that all the states received.  What the libs on the left are not mentioning that this fund was raided like social security years ago.  They saw a cash cow,  and Governor Granholm milked her dry.  Like social security and retirement funds, they stole the money and never thought about paying it back, and even if they did, the state is in such a mess, it could not if it tried.

No wonder Richardville voted against sending more money to a cow who leaks money like  a sieve.  If you received this bogus call today, now you know the “rest of the story”.

Health Care thoughts:

President Obama spoke of large pools of insurance options that would be available to the people under the plans coming out of the senate and house.  Seriously, how large will these pools really be if the Democrats refuse to allow interstate competition between insurance companies in their bills.  You would get what we have already, with the cheaper government option driving the private companies out of  the business.

All of a sudden the ins. companies are the bad guys, this is what is being said to try and convince folks that this resulting legislation will be the cure all to end all.  If they really are the evil force behind the opposition, why would they not be allowed to compete to drive prices down?  Could it be because its the Dems who are in the hip pocket of big insurance and not the other way around?

If you heard his response to the questions last night on Frank Beckman this morning, you could tell he did not expect this type of response from a district that has voted him into office all these past years.  Dingell has to realize that times are “change” ing.  No longer will people simply pull the Democrat lever in the poll booth and blindly elect their officials the next time out.  The people will remember who voted on what, who followed the party line with Obama, and they will be in for a rude awakening come election time.

We are simply people worried about what is happening to this nation, and the direction it is being forced upon us by people who we elected, but refuse to listen to us.  We will not be intimidated by thugs at town hall meetings, who were brought in simply to “police” any dissenting view points.  In the last couple of days the elderly have been pushed around, and one conservative African American, who simply wanted to ask some deserving questions was sent to the hospital for his injuries he received because of it.

We are not hired by one party or another like ACORN, we are not the Nazis that Nancy Pelosi claims are coming to these meetings. Seriously has anyone seen one such flag at any of these events?  Its the CIA all over again, and Pelosi is making crap up, as fast as it will fly out of her mouth.  People are just not going to believe everything that is reported by  news commentators who get a thrill down their leg at the mention of Obama.

Debbie Dingell  :  I love the question off the bat about the Dems throwing him out of his chairmanship.

John Dingell :  Except for somone in the front row, the people that are standing up do not look like radicals, they don’t have fancy group t-shirts, they look like our neighbors.  Concerned about their future health care needs.

John Dingell on the Frank Beckman Show

This is exactly what will kill this bill; not the Republicans, nor conservative Blue Dog Dems, not even the insurance industry, but it will be the people who drive the final blow against it. You have seen it already at the meetings being held early during the recess.  Spector got an earful, and his meeting was not the only one. 

The people, the same ones that Obama talked about in San Francisco before the election, but then we were only gun toting, bible hugging nuts.  This time its the elderly who want to know why they are destroying medicaid and medicare.  Why their benefits are going to be taxed after Obama laughed McCain out of the room for even suggesting it?  The parents that are worried whether they will get the care they need for their infants, or will it take months before they get their needed treatments.

Not that we can politically change their minds, but we have a chance to make Debbie Stabenow and John Dingell to seriously think about their chances of re-election their next time out. 

You can voice your opinions to John Dingell up in Romulus.  He has been whipped worse than the family pig, by his own party.  Its a shame too, once upon a time Dingell could have described as the first Blue Dog,  I voted for him many years in a row, and respected his vision on gun rights, but no longer.

Health Care Town Hall Meeting With John Dingell

Stabbenow would not be a shocker, she has followed the party line to a “T”. You can have your chance to ask her questions in Monroe very soon.

Today while having the radio on this morning, they replayed  John Conyers gave a little speech regarding the many complaints that people have about congressmen and women not bothering to read the bills in front of them.  It basically says why should members of congress and the senate read 1,000 page bills in two days, when they need to consult with lawyers after that to understand what they just read.  Here is the quote, then the video on YouTube:

 “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

Before someone tries to explain it way with the typical, “This is what he meant by that” listen to the disdain in his voice.  He fails to understand exactly why he was elected in the first place.  It might be the same attitude that landed his wife in hot water as a member of the Detroit City Council in the sludge contract kickback schemes recently.

YouTube

The opening page is an introduction for an investigation of what Canadian Health Care is like.  Then there are four different video segments at the bottom covering different topics.  It is an insight into what Obama’s health care system would be like.  Not that I personally believe it, but Obama might have a different goal in working towards universal coverage.

Like every other piece of high priority legislation passed to this point, he has no hand in writing it, and as leader of his party allows amendments to be slipped in during the middle of the night when no one is looking.  Since no one will get a chance to read the bill, if and when they brow beat the blue dogs into submission, the people will not know what is in the bill until he signs it.

Canadian Health Care Perspective

Make your signs, wear the red, white and blue and shake the tree a lil’ bit, just like 1776,

Loranger Square, Monroe, MI.

Corner of East First & Washington St.

Saturday July, 4th 2009 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Presented and Sponsored by:

 The Conservative Caucus of Monroe County

Free to the Public all Citizens encouraged to attend

for those who want to become more involved or to find out what the tea parties are all about, come to any event or email  grassroots@riverraisinpatriots.org

Here is the official notice; copy, paste, print and hand out.

July 4^th Tea Party

Declaration of Independence

“Then and Now”

“Stand and be counted for Freedom and Liberty”

Loranger Square, Monroe, MI.

Corner of East First & Washington St.

Saturday July, 4th 2009 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Presented and Sponsored by:

 The Conservative Caucus of Monroe County

Free to the Public all Citizens encouraged to attend

 For some reason the fancy lettering didn’t make it through, but anyone who needs it can email me at michiganright@yahoo.com, or contact the River Raisin Patriots at grassroots@riverraisinpatriots.org.