+ The heated issue on Health Care Reform isn’t so much political ideology, or the minions of Sauron walking out of Mordor with twirling golden canes speaking very bad German. It’s fear, says Hawaiian governor Linda Lingle.
“I think you see a heightened emotion and passion and, you say anger, because people are scared,” said Hawaii GOP Gov. Linda Lingle, during a conference call with reporters organized by the Republican Governors Association.
“You’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts in spending on Medicare, and that’s why you see members of the AARP separated from their leadership on this issue, because they’re scared,” the Hawaii governor said. “The heightened anger is out of fear for what it’s going to mean for their lives and the lives of their families.”
+ You have to wonder where the timid have gone. Perhaps they’re sitting at home, checking out Craigs List for a job — more on that later. First, Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a:
…national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009… HCAN believes that everyone in this country should have accessible, quality health care they can afford. We are fighting for a uniquely American solution that gives you a guarantee of coverage and real choice: keep your private insurance plan or join a new public health insurance plan so you are no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.
Like most liberals organizations, HCAN has a backup plan, listing several listings on Craigs List offering a job for those that want to "fight for health care". Big, whoop, right?
All the listings lead to this site, the Fund for the Public Interest. According to this page, they mostly work on environmental issues, partnering with groups like the Sierra Club.
Just to sum up the big picture here based on what we know now… One of HCAN’s partners is mobilizing people nationwide to “fight” against opponents of reform and is partnering with a group that has put ads for paid canvassers ($4,000 to $6,000 for the summer) on Craigslist nationwide. In effect, HCAN is hiring people to literally get in people’s faces and push Obama’s agenda.
This is what the left considers “grassroots.” Meanwhile, a memo written by a guy in Connecticut which was sent out to 10 people is proof that reform opponents of Obama Care are part of a deceptive astroturf campaign. Hopefully that’s all making perfect sense now.
Basically the idea you should have is that many Obama supporters are getting paid, roughly $10-15 an hour, while protestors against Health Care reform are genuinely concerned — at least until Nancy Pelosi can prove that there’s Swastikas at Town Halls. Unlike thugs beating up on older people outside of Town Halls.
+ The Service Employees International Union is "an organization of 2 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society." The video you saw above was outside the SEIU St. Louis headquarters.
Recently, SEIU President Andy Stern claims that they spent $60.7 million to get President Obama elected. Michelle Malkin writes:
Through a series of local chapter takeovers, corporate shakedowns, and bully campaigns to destroy the reputation of executives who refuse to submit to their will, Stern and his scandal-plagued lieutenants have consolidated low-skill service workers to create a 21st century labor empire. The ubiquitous Stern now enjoys a prominent seat at the table of every major policy discussion at the White House, including economic recovery and health care radicalization.
Obama champions the SEIU’s top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the Orwellian-titled “Employee Free Choice Act” to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. (The initiative is “alive and well,” Stern said this week.) Obama has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.
SEIU President Stern summed up his organizing philosophy:
“[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power.”
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