Public Option - Not Dead

We find ourselves EXACTLY where we thought we would be prior to the so-called Healthcare debate: the public option vs. the non-public option.

Let's review: the Democrats and liberals in Congress, Melissa Bean INCLUDED, voted for a takeover of healthcare. Our medical history and records are no longer private between doctor and patient. Our healthcare providers, or doctors, must take less in reimbursements than before. This requires the doctors and providers to see more patients in the same time to make up for the difference in income OR just not see those with medicare, medicaid, etc.

Frankly, a lot of doctors are just closing shop, deciding that it doesn't make sense to practice medicine because the costs are too great.

Doctors and other providers have not grown in number, so the number of people waiting to see a doctor will get larger, the waits longer.

Let me ask you this - if YOUR doctor is rushing to see as many patients as possible, are YOU getting the attention and care you want?

At some point, when doctors close their doors, the business side of things will become apparent. Doctors not only provide essential healhcare to people, they also HIRE nurses, administrative workers, and other doctors. They are employers. When they close their doors, those people will be out of work, have no job.

The public option, or government controlled healthcare, has already been enacted, if not by technical, legal means, then by design. These things are starting to happen and will continue to happen. They are pushing doctors out of business, onto the "available" governement run healthcare system. This will be phasing in over the next several years.

So what options do you have? Pay for insurance and not food? Things are working out EXACTLY as the liberals and Democrats in Congress and the President planned. This is a public option, they just aren't calling it a public option. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

Melissa Bean voted for this. She claims to be supportive of small businesses. She claims to be supportive of wanting coverage for all. I was on a recent TELE-TOWNHALL meeting (she doesn't hold face to face townhalls in her district except for those she invites), and she said that the healthcare "reform" bill was going to save money.

Maybe she didn't read the latest restatement by the CBO, who came out several months after the bill was passed and said the numbers had been underestimated by over $500 BILLION dollars. And that the bill does NOT include the so-called "doctor fix".

I, for one, am tired of the condescending attitude those in Congress have towards their constituents. They must think we are not paying attention, that they can slip one past us or that we'll get over it.

How are things going for you? How is the stimulus helping you? Do you have a job? Does your doctor plan to close his or her doors? How do bailouts, stimulus, healthcare, car company takeovers, etc. help our economy?

How can we pay for any of this? How does raising taxes help those of us with jobs and those of us without jobs?

Melissa Bean has voted for each of those bills passed listed above. As for raising taxes, she has said that some hard decisions will have to be made. You read between the lines on that.

Congresspeople did not make the healthcare law applicable to themselves. Congressmen have voted time and time again for pay raises, spending increases, and are letting tax cuts expire at the end of this year.

It's a nice life as a Congressperson if you can get it.

But does Melissa Bean DESERVE it?

Not with her votes. She is out of touch with her constituents, she is out of touch with reality in her district, and she does not seem to prioritize her constituents and our needs over those of Nancy Pelosi and President Obama.

What have they done for us? They have only helped themselves.

Is that who YOU want representing you in Congress?

Vote to save our Country

The Republican Party of Lake County held a breakfast Saturday for all Precinct Committeeman & Precinct workers to get a chance to rally with the candidates that they will be working to elect. It was held in the back room of Austins Restaurant and it was packed to capacity. There was Joe Walsh of the 8th, Bob Dold of the 10th, Suzi Schmidt, Mark Curran, and many more. They all told the same story that this must be the year Republicans take back Washington and Springfield or else our State and County will be lost.

The Chicago Democratic Party looks north and sees that with 2 more seats on the Lake County Board they will have control of Lake County government. Lake County would then be run as Cook County government is now. Lake will become Cook County North with all the over spending and higher taxes.

The Chicago Democratic Party has complete control of our State government, which is becoming the worst state financially in the country.

The Chicago Democratic Party has taken control of the White House, which has given us the largest budget deficits in history.

It is time to end the rule of the Chicago Democratic Machine over our lives. Tell your fiends, family, and neighbors that this coming November has become our last chance to save our County, State, and Country from ruin. Pleas come out to vote and save the Country our Founding Fathers fought so bravely for.

This weekend 8th District Illinois Republican Congressional Nominee Joe Walsh celebrated Independence Day participating in parades and festivals throughout the district. In one of his final stops he led the Pledge of Allegiance at the Lake County Tea Party rally in Libertyville.

Walsh has been all over the 8th District in Town Hall Meetings, parades, Health Care debates, and just going door to door.

Have you seen Joe yet?

Reflections

The United States of America just celebrated her 234th Birthday. How do you suppose people across this country celebrated?

With people risking their lives every day to gain access to this country, both legally and illegally, it makes you wonder why people risk everything to come here and hardly anyone ever leaves.

This blog entry is not going to be about illegal immigration. This blog entry is going to be about what makes America the place for which everyone wants to risk everything to come.

America was founded 234 years ago by the bravest of people. The Founding Fathers did not know what was to come of their experiment, they only knew it was worth risking everything they had, including their lives, to escape tyranny.

I go back to how do you think people across the country celebrated our nation's birthday?

I would say prior to 2009, most people would most likely have seen the 4th of July as an excuse to have a day off from work, or to have barbecues with family and friends.

While those things still hold true for most people, this year I believe that more and more people are reflecting upon what truly makes this country the best country in the world; what makes this country the country people risk everything for to make it to our shores: LIBERTY.

People come to the United States of America because we hold certain values as a nation. We practice and rely upon freedoms and liberty to help make our own way in this country and in this world.

Sometimes it is important to take a step back and look at the big picture. It is so very easy to get lost in the details of an issue or a debate. It is important to see WHY people come to this country.

They come here because there is no better opportunity to make a better life for yourself and your family than there is in this country. There is no more fertile ground for success, whatever your definition, than here, in America. Generations of immigrants have recognized this and made personal sacrifices to better their situations in life.

Why, then, do we take such liberty and freedom for granted? Why do we need to be reminded only once a year, on our country's birthday, why this country was founded and what this country stands for?

Isn't she worth fighting for every day?

New & higher taxes

Thanks to the current Congress controlled by the Democrats and the Obama White House In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.They will hit families and small businesses beginning on January 1, 2011:

Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:

Personal income tax rates will rise.

- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

- The 25% bracket rises to 28%

- The 28% bracket rises to 31%

- The 33% bracket rises to 36%

- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family.

The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.

The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.

The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

Thanks to Obama Health Care, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear.

Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be “depreciated.”

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced.

The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

Do we want Mellisa Bean and her fellow Democrats in Congress leading us further down this path? This November your vote is very important in telling Congress the Change they have given us is not what this Country needs. We need to get the spending under control, we need less government in our daily lives, we need regulation of big business not Federal ownership of big business. We need conservative candidates that know the needs of our community.

Have you met Joe yet?

Bean on the Issues

It seems Congresswoman Mellisa Bean considers more or less that we are better off now than we were 18 months ago. She ignores that the stock market that keeps dropping, the unemployment rate remaining near 10%, the banks not giving loans, consumer confidence remains low, etc..... Several National polls show that public is not behind the programs of Congress or the President, yet she continues to sell the story that all this is good for the nation and Congress needs to continue down the same path.

Drive down the main streets of the towns and villages in the 8th District, you will see empty store front after empty store front. People are nervous about spending and more concerned about being prepared for more bad times. What we get from Congress is more talk about social programs and placing blame on the banks and Wall Street. The 8th District needs someone that really knows the 8th District. We are tired of taxation without true representation.



See for yourself in the video link what Mellisa Bean is saying about the economy.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4267161/spending-vs-reducing-deficit