It is the first step in years toward looking out for the healthcare for all Americans. Finally our Great country catches up to the rest of the civilized world in regard to our citizens healthcare. The republicans could have crafted and passed something along these lines if they had wanted to. They have enjoyed complete control of both houses and the White House a few times but all they ever want to do is tax breaks for the wealthy.
Republicans have opposed social security since it was created over 75 years ago and have never stopped trying to kill the program. If the republicans opposed things in a truthful manner the parties could get together and write good law. Two honest parties working on solutions to problems would do great things.
Notice how republicans play the game. They don't address the issues. They wait for the Democrats to create a fix for the problem and then they attack it. Why have the Republicans, over all the years and terms in office, not taken up the health care issue? Republicans represent big business and are in favor of the insurance companies controlling everything. We pay twice as much as any other country for our health care and are ranked number 20 in the world.
Truth is the last thing on a republican's mind. They make it up as they go and tell one lie after another. Republicans have roadblocked everything President Obama has tried to do for the last three and one half years. I do not have the capacity to understand how the republican mind works. Telling the same lies over and over does not make them true. It shows the simplicity of those who believe those lies. Republicans are so far out of the mainstream today that it is possible they will just fade away.
Mitt Romney is the least qualified candidate to be put up as a major party candidate in my lifetime. When the election is over lots of republicans will openly voice their dissatisfaction with the nominee.
Republicans have been systematically lied to by the political leaders they have supported. Bob Goodlatte is one of those leaders who bends, spins and completely disregards the truth. Bob has done nothing for the district for the past 20 years. Bob even promised to retire after 10 years, so much for telling the truth. Bob is closely allied with the tea party and that sick vein of thought. Bob votes against seniors on all of their issues. This election you have a choice.
Andy Schmookler is the Democratic Candidate for Congress in the 6th District (Amherst County) and Andy is Calling on Conservatives to Embrace the Truth as a Patriotic Act.
Here's WHAT ANDY STANDS FOR:
• Government for the People, Not Just the Powerful Few
• Restoring Integrity to American Democracy
• Opportunity for All to Fulfill their God-given Potential
• “One Person, One Vote,” not “One Dollar, One Vote”
• Passing on to Our Children a Nation and Planet as Healthy as Was Given to Us
• Leadership that Brings Out the Best in the American People
• Seeking and Speaking the Truth
• Individual Liberty Combined with Wise and Constructive Government
Goodlatte Misleads on ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act)
Bob Goodlatte sent a grossly misleading email to Sixth District voters following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
With leaders – or misleaders – like Goodlatte telling lie after lie about “Obamacare,” it’s no wonder that half the American people tell pollsters they’re confused about that important piece of legislation. The deception from Bob Goodlatte and his Republican buddies started with phrases like “death panels” and “government takeover” of health care, and this fear-mongering dishonesty continues.
No wonder so many people tell pollsters they’re against this health care reform law, yet if told what’s in it, they say they strongly favor most of those measures. The demonization of “ObamaCare” has worked.
How about the truth, for a change?
No, ObamaCare does not add to the national debt. It pays for itself, according to numerous experts. Indeed, the well-respected nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office – whose job is to tell the American people how much laws and spending will cost them - has said that over its first decade, the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit not raise it.
No, ObamaCare is not a job-killer. That’s something Goodlatte and his Republican buddies have made up, shamelessly, while they’ve systematically blocked every effort in Congress to put Americans back to work.
No, this law does not make “massive cuts to Medicare,” as Goodlatte claims, trying to scare people who depend upon Medicare. In reality, the law slows the growth in Medicare spending by encouraging greater efficiency and eliminating waste and fraud in the program, taking nothing from the people who rely on it. The law actually enhances Medicare, closing the donut hole and adding new preventive benefits. You’d never know that from Goodlatte’s scare-tactics and misinformation.
It’s blatant hypocrisy for Bob Goodlatte to lecture us about protecting Medicare and reducing the deficit when he has twice voted for the Ryan budget, which would gut Medicare in order to fund yet another big tax cut for the wealthiest Americans while ensuring huge deficits for decades to come.
Instead of accepting the Supreme Court’s decision and moving on, Goodlatte promises to fight to repeal the only health care reform measure Congress has been able to enact for generations – even though we Americans pay twice as much for our medical care as the citizens of any other advanced country and get a health care system that doesn’t even rank in the top twenty.
It’s an imperfect law, but one that we need our legislators to improve and build upon, not demonize it for partisan advantage.
Goodlatte concedes that we have to bring our health care costs under control. When Goodlatte claims he has an approach that could help, his constituents should ask him: “So, why have you and your party done nothing about this for the past twenty years –nothing but obstruct– while you’ve been collecting your salary as our representative, as well as receiving federal health care benefits that are denied to many of us?”
Perhaps we should also ask Bob Goodlatte who exactly he’s representing up there on Capitol Hill. It surely isn’t the citizens, families, farmers, workers, and small-business owners of the Sixth District, who are burdened by rising health care costs and increasing insecurity about getting proper medical care.
Maybe Bob Goodlatte’s latest message is good politics since the Republican lie machine has convinced so many people that they will be hurt, and not helped, by the Affordable Care Act.
But we need members of Congress who are about more than “good politics.” We need them to look out for their citizens, and not peddle fear-mongering lies to trick people into voting against their own self-interest.
We need leaders dedicated to telling people the truth, for a change. I’m promising to do just that, and I keep my promises.
Andy Schmookler is the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s Sixth Congressional District.
6th District Congressional Candidate Dr. Andy Schmookler is coming to the Amherst County area and we would like for you to meet and chat with him, ask questions. Hear his ideas on government working for the interest of the people and the advancement of the American Dream and you will begin to understand why Andy is the candidate you need to rally around.
Ned and Lynn Kable invite you to their house, Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 3 PM for a meet and greet with Andy Schmookler.
RSVP - 434-946-0116
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