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S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS SAVED CLIENT $858

2011-06-03T20:56:00.000-04:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

SAVED CLIENT $858

By Woodrow Wilcox

An elderly client who emigrated from Puerto Rico to Indiana brought a medical bill to our office and asked for my help. The client is an elderly woman who now lives in Merrillville, Indiana.

I checked with the client’s insurance company and learned that Medicare never sent the claim to the insurance company. The bill was from a local hospital and had an unpaid balance due of $858.20.

I wrote to the hospital and requested that it send certain essential information directly to the claims department at the insurance company. As long as the hospital cooperates, I am sure that the insurance company will pay on the bill according to the policy terms. My work on this will save our client over $858 that she would have had to pay because of a mistake of the Medicare system if I had not helped her.

I help senior citizen clients of this insurance agency to correct medical bill errors that are caused by mistakes in the Medicare system ALL THE TIME. In less than eight years, I helped the clients of this one insurance agency in Indiana to save over one million dollars by canceling wrongful charges that were caused by mistakes in the Medicare system. In past articles, I have given my calculations for why I believe that the Medicare system’s goofs are costing America’s senior citizens over one billion dollars per year.

There are many problems with the Medicare system. There needs to be a major overhaul of the Medicare and Medicaid systems. President Obama, Senator Harry Reid, and their political allies are “trashing” the proposal of Congressman Paul Ryan, but offering no alternative plan. Let me remind you that the “Obamacare” law robbed senior citizens on Medicare of half a trillion dollars in future Medicare benefits.

The “Obamacare” law increased the risk of Medicare going “bust” in the near future. So, proposing changes to save Medicare for senior citizens is the “adult” thing to do. Ignoring the problem will not make the problem go away. So, my advice to President Obama, Senator Harry Reid, and their political allies is to GROW UP!

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill case worker at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For other articles by Wilcox, visit www.dakotavoice.com and search “Woodrow Wilcox”.

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Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Breaking Exclusive: Crew Director uses own Father to levy FEC charges against Christine O’Donnell- Tea Party News

2011-01-08T00:58:00.000-05:00

Breaking Exclusive: Crew Director uses own Father to levy FEC charges against Christine O’Donnell- Tea Party News

O’Donnell attacker, Melanie Sloan, uses her own father to file trumped up charges with FEC
The Freedomist has been investigating the charges levied against Tea Party champion Christine O’Donnell by the partisan group, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington- which targets conservative leaders), led by Attorney Melanie Sloan. In the course of that investigation, The Freedomist has learned that the group, CREW, filed a charge on behalf of a Leonard S Togman. (see the official charges here from a PDF posted on the crew site: http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/45695
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION In the matter of: Christine O’Donnell …
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
Complainant Leonard S. Togman is a citizen of the United States, a registered voter, and a resident of the State of Delaware. As a registered voter, …
While Mr Togman may be a Delaware voter, what has been omitted from Melanie Sloan’s statements on this case, from the official complaint filed by the FEC, and the official statements made by CREW, is that Leonard Togman is Melanie Sloan’s father. Not only is Leonard Togman the father of Melanie Sloan, like Melanie Sloan herself, he also happens to be a heavy Biden supporter. He is also a strong supporter of the man many people believe Christine O’Donnell will challenge in 2012, Thomas Carper.
This story is about much more than Tea Party challenger Christine O’Donnell, this is about the tactics being used by progressives to assault our Tea Party and Conservative Leaders over and over again with personal assaults, using accusations, false charges, and a myriad of Alinksy-like tactics to undermine the person, since they cannot stand in front of the American people and tell them to vote for their kind of candidate, ones who are beholden to big government, big unions, and political class elitism. This is why we call on our Freedomist readers to help us get this story out about Melanie Sloan and her Father, political class elitists using our own government to attempt to destroy any Freedom-loving leader that dares stand in the way of their big government agenda. How can you help” You can link this site onto your own site. You can tweet this story out. But more importantly, you can do this:
contact the Chairman of the House Committee that oversees the FEC to ask them exactly why they have not dismissed this obvious partisan assault by the father of one of Christine O’Donnell’s political enemies, Melanie Sloan.
Go to his official House website here: http://lungren.house.gov/index.html
Call him at these numbers and tell Dan Lungren to ask the FEC why they are allowing this trumped up charge to go forward, and why they are not investigating Melanie Sloan for filing false charges:
(916) 859-9906: District Office
(202) 225-5716: Washington Office
Here is more information about this emerging controversy now surrounding the accuser herself, Melanie Sloan:
1)    Melanie Sloan’s father is Leonard S. Togman, a retired attorney from Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP.^[3]
2)    CREW’s Complaint against Christine O’Donnell is based upon — LEONARD S. TOGMAN (her father) — for “standing” of a Delaware voter.
3)     Leonard S. Togman’s campaign donations are almost exclusively donations to JOE BIDEN and Thmoas Carper.

The Complaint against Christine O’Donnell is officially, formally brought on behalf of a Delaware voter LEONARD S. TOGMAN.
This same Leonard S. Togman has made 16 donations to Biden in the last decade, totaling $9,975, and 8 donations to Democratic Senator Tom Carper, whom everyone expects Christine O’Donnell to run against for the US Senate in 2012, totaling $4,500
67.7% of all of the Togman’s political donations have been to JOE BIDEN
30.5% of all of the Togman’s political donations have been to TOM CARPER, possible future opponent for Christine O’Donnell in 2012.
Melanie Sloan is using her father, a Biden-Carp supporter, as she is, as the COMPLAINTANT in the FEC Complaint.
Here is the link to the pdf file that lists Leonard S. Togman as the official complainant in the charges trumped up by his daughter, Melanie Sloan:
http://freedomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ODonnell-Complaint.pdf

Here is a video of a CBS story just after the O’Donnell upset of Rino Mike Castle featuring Melanie Sloan. Note that CBS refers to Crew (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics) as a non-artisan group urging the FEC to investigate O’Donnell, never mentioning CREW was using Melanie Sloan’s father, Leonard S Togman to trigger the investigation, filing a bogus complaint for his daughter, and in support of Joe Biden and Thomas Carper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGqzOC3DnU&feature=related

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A Successful Banquet and A Historical Year

2010-12-20T18:30:00.000-05:00

A Successful Banquet and A Historic Year

In the advent of a new year, we pause for reflection with sincere appreciation. Our remarkable efforts this year comes to an end with the reaffirmation of the refreshing Constitutional values that unite us. The Northern Virginia Tea Party continues to promote the basic principles we all embrace. While the movement continues to grow, our responsibility remains more profound. While it is accurate to acknowledge that in any relationship change is a constant and while internally we continue to advance the principles that unite us; the debate of ideals is welcome as long as civility remains a constant.

Our recent yearly banquet was a rousing success and demonstrated how resolve and resiliency remains the hallmark of the phenomena that is our organization. Throughout the year such events with our local elected leaders such as Governor Bob McDonnell, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli or Delegate Bob Marshall and other possible candidates of the future such as national figures former Governor and Senator George Allen, Jamie Radtke, and Delaware's Christine O'Donnell clearly demonstrate that in our carefully crafted presentations, our actions and involvements attract a national media.

Our involvements continue to focus on the mandates of our great commonwealth of Virginia and new legislation that can promote our values or cripple our purpose. Our outreach remains bi partisan in direction and we continue to extend an open hand to all legal citizens of Virginia and embrace every race, creed and color.

It remains extended to both sides of the political isle and respectfully invites a dialogue that continues to allow our Patriots to hear how "You" can show "Us" how you will further support the constitution, promote the return to federalism, demonstrate fiscal conservatism and embrace patriotism.

The New Year will bring new focus and new organization as we invite all who seek a more responsibility from our commonwealth and the nation to join us as "We The People" continue to preserve the union that so many great veterans and Patriots have fought, bled and died for yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Ron Wilcox
Lead Organizer
Northern Virginia Tea Party http://northernvniateaparty.com

Wife of Clarence Thomas Joins Tea Party Movement | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

2010-11-15T00:04:00.000-05:00

Wife of Clarence Thomas Joins Tea Party Movement | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

The recent announcement that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is wading into the conservative brew of the tea party movement has many within those ranks excited.

Thomas’ lobbying group, Liberty Central was formed in January to “serve the big tent of the conservative movement,” according to its Web site. It has already received the support of several high-profile conservative leaders. On the group’s Web site, it features a message from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

“Ginni can help channel the frustration felt by millions across America at the current course of our country,” said Rumsfeld. “Leaders committed to smaller government, fiscal prudence, and a strong national defense will be returning to Washington, D.C., and I am confident that Ginni Thomas will be part of the reason it will happen.”

Thomas attended a rally denouncing the House of Representatives’ health care reform bill and is scheduled to attend another rally in Atlanta on April 15.
Several local tea party leaders said Thomas’ involvement gives the movement a stamp of legitimacy.

“Of course [her involvement] helps,” said Tony Passaro, organizer of the Federation of Maryland Tea Party Patriots. “As the wife of a Supreme Court justice she has a lot of visibility. Her involvement increases the visibility of the whole movement.”

Ron Wilcox, head of the Alexandria Tea Party in Virginia, agreed with Passaro as he excitedly spoke about her involvement.

“This is wonderful. I’m delighted that she’ll be doing such a thing,” Wilcox said. “It is one of the number of steps that has come forward that has advanced the credibility and the viability of the tea party movement.”

There is a sentiment, however, that her move is a further setback for Clarence Thomas in the eyes of many African Americans.

Clarence Thomas’ conservative past and involvement in the Anita Hill scandal has always been a source of controversy within the African-American community. Some say this may be the icing on the cake.

“[Clarence Thomas] is already alienated from the Black community and I don’t know how much further he can get,” said Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Center, and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park. “His wife played a very early role in his confirmation so this is really not surprising to me.”

Walters added that it is a little unnerving that that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice is joining this movement given the “vicious conservatism” he believes dogs the tea party movement. Given the Thomases’ contacts within the Republican Party, he thinks it could be part of a Republican strategy to gain more support.

“There’s an attempt on the part of the Republican Party to incorporate the tea party movement,” said Walters. “It’s possible that she’s becoming involved in that effort.”
However, members of the movement dismiss that concern as they believe she’s just expressing her rights as a U.S. citizen.

“She has every right to express her political opinion,” said Wilcox. “She’s not a Supreme Court Justice.

“People have their own interests and want to advance them. She shouldn’t be hobbled by her husband’s profession.”

Alexandria Times | There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

2010-11-14T23:25:00.000-05:00

Alexandria Times | There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 2010
By Derrick Perkins
Republicans enjoyed a wave of election success nationally Tuesday, but with local gains non-existent, self-described “Tea Partiers” now turn their attention to city and state issues.

Given the much-hyped anti-incumbency backlash heading into the 2010 mid term elections, AJ Kearney, co-organizer of The Alexandria Tea Party, expected fiscally conservative voters with an eye toward promoting limited government and free markets would give 10-term Democratic Congressman Jim Moran a run for his money.

Not long after polls opened, he realized that wasn’t going to happen.

“We were surprised by [Moran’s] margin of victory,” he said. “I was standing in front of a polling station handing out literature and by 11 a.m. I started to think ‘there’s a lot of Democrats coming by here.’”

Republican challenger Patrick Murray picked up 37.3 percent of the electorate, not nearly enough to match Moran, who earned 116, 269 votes or 61.01 percent of the ballots cast. While Kearney expected a better showing for Murray, Moran’s victory at the polls didn’t come out of the blue.

There are two things to remember, he says: Democrats have had a lot of practice preparing for elections in what’s considered a safe seat for the party and local Tea Party enthusiasts didn’t have a lot of time to learn in the run up to the vote.

With the post-election hangover still settling in, Kearney worries fellow activists will lose interest, put away their placards and call it a year. There’s work to be done on the local level, even in a safe district for Democrats, he said.

“We’re trying to offset it by making sure people understand we’ve got a number of things on the docket we need their help on,” Kearney said. “There’s a definite movement, at least in the Virginia Tea Party, to basically get more local. Our focus is not just on national elections, it’s more concentrated on the state and local levels.”

At the moment, that means supporting Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s legal challenge of the recently passed health care reform bill and working with other Tea Party groups promoting a small government agenda at the state level, he said.

They’re also extending an olive branch of sorts to their political opponents. Former Alexandria resident and founder of the Northern Virginia Tea Party, Ron Wilcox wants to bridge the partisan divide with incumbents like Moran.

“The question isn’t just are with the politicians, but are they with us,” he said. “Each of those people has a vote on Capitol Hill, whether we agree with them or not. We respect the voice of the American people on these elections and we are going to continue to urge our elected officials to return to limited government.”

When 2012 rolls around, Michael Ginsberg, 8th District Republican Party chair, expects to see many of the same faces and local groups turn out to volunteer, man phone banks and go door-to-door. Until the issues driving the grassroots activism disappear, they’ll stick around on the political stage, he said.

“Certainly, they were an enormous asset to our candidates,” Ginsberg said. “I see them as staying around for as long as these issues are active. I don’t think the issues that are motivating the Tea Party will have gone away [by 2012]. They will remain active.”

It’s too soon to see whether Alexandria’s Tea Party organization will back a candidate in the next election cycle, Kearney said. He won’t put an exact figure on the number of Tea Partiers in the city — a couple of hundred, he says — but they’re preparing for the future.

He laughed at Moran’s acceptance speech analysis of Murray’s campaign as doomed by “extremist Tea Party views.”

“We can’t tell them don’t do that, we just got to concentrate on organizing,” Kearney said. “We just think we have a better ideas.”

Political Activists Question Tea Party Impact

2010-11-14T23:16:00.000-05:00

Political Activists Question Tea Party Impact
Political Activists Question Tea Party Impact
Democrats and Republicans say ‘anti-government’ message unlikely to resonate in Fairfax.

By Julia O'Donoghue
Friday, October 29, 2010

Back when Sandy Green was a federal employee several years ago, public sector workers made less than private sector employees. But today, Green believes federal employees make more than their counterparts in the private sector, she said.

"Now, it is totally the opposite. You can make more money as a government employee. It all happened very quickly," said Green, who worries that federal spending, including retirement packages and other benefits, have gotten out of hand.

Traditionally, Green had never been very politically active. But she was dismayed by what she saw during the 2008 Democratic Party primary race, when President Barack Obama beat Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

So in the summer of 2009, she started to become active with the Tea Party movement, going to marches on the National Mall and attending local meetings.

A year later, Green is participating in a monthly discussion group on the U.S. Constitution and watching Glenn Beck on a regular basis. She and two other women formed the Fair Lakes Tea Party, a local chapter of the larger Northern Virginia Tea Party, three months ago.

"Now, I am a conservative," said Green.

Green is a conservative, but she is not a Republican.

"For myself, it is not really about political party. ... But I do really think we can make a difference. We can provide manpower to candidates," she said.

LOCAL TEA PARTY activists intend to have an impact in Fairfax County's three congressional races Nov. 2.

Northern Virginia Tea Party founder Ron Wilcox said the organization will try to have volunteers at most of the local polling stations on Election Day, much like the Democratic Party and Republican Party do. The group is also sponsoring seminars on how to become "conservative Internet activist" and community organizing workshops.

"Tea Party folks are not a happy lot. They want to know that their candidates are going to pursue limited government," said Wilcox, who described himself as a conservative grassroots organizer.

Though flyers for the Tea Party described the organization as nonpartisan, Wilcox encouraged members to volunteer for Fairfax's three Republican candidates for U.S. Congress — Patrick Murray, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10) and Keith Fimian.

"One of the things that I am hearing is that the campaigns need help with phone banking," said Wilcox during the Fair Lakes gathering.

Wilcox, who has worked with conservative movements and on previous political campaigns, is confident that the Tea Party activists will have an impact on local elections.

"There is a lot of energy. This group meets once per week. Sometimes they meet more often than that," he said.

"For each one of us here, there are 10 other people that cannot be here but have gotten involved," said Alma Jackson, a Fairfax resident who is a Fair Lakes Tea Party member.

BUT SEASONED Democratic and Republican political activists question the impact that the Tea Party brand of conservatism can have in Northern Virginia, particularly if the movement pursues an "anti-federal government" message.

"Fairfax is a government town and it is always going to be a government town," said former U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, who used to represent Connolly's district and now works for a large federal government contractor.

More federal contracts flow to Fairfax than any other locality in the country and the largest employer in Virginia's 11th congressional district, where Fimian is running against U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11), is the federal government, according to a Fairfax Economic Development Authority report.

In part because of the large federal workforce, Fairfax County is also enjoying a much lower unemployment rate, around 4.7 percent, than the country as a whole, where unemployment is just over 9 percent.

"I think the Republican base is very angry and upset but I am not sure we are seeing the level of anger here that there is elsewhere," said Fairfax County Supervisor John Cook (R-Braddock).

STILL, elected officials said many local voters are upset and nervous about the direction of the country, even if they haven't aligned themselves with the Tea Party movement. Incumbents, including Connolly, should not underestimate their level of concern, they said.

"There is tremendous anger out there directed at any person who holds any position of power. People are angry about unemployment and the national deficit," said Fairfax County Supervisor Jeff McKay (D-Lee).

State Sen. Dave Marsden (D-37), who has been campaigning for Connolly, said he also hears about concern from the voters.

"I think this is a difficult environment for incumbents. People are worried about the deficit and voters are going to do what they think sends the best message," said Marsden, who also thinks the election between Connolly and Fimian will be close.

In a more positive economic climate, the race between Fimian and Connolly would not be as close as it is, said some Republicans and Democrats.

"Northern Virginia is not in love with Republicans. But I think our voters want to add a little balance to the political equation," said Davis.

"As the incumbent and former Fairfax County chairman, Connolly should be way ahead. I think the fact that this is a close race shows how unhappy people are," said Cook.

2010-11-06T09:22:00.000-04:00

Northern Virginia Tea Party Members and Events were featured in this video about the Tea Party Movement
on Voice of America produced by Todd Host Todd Grosshans.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/now-u-know/

Wolf tells tea partiers GOP can fix nation's problems

2010-10-21T19:12:00.000-04:00

Wolf tells tea partiers GOP can fix nation's problems

Wednesday August 18, 2010

Wolf tells tea partiers GOP can fix nation's problems

Congressman addresses about 200 at rally

by Gregg MacDonald | Staff Writer

Members of a local conservative political group gathered in Herndon Monday to hear U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Dist. 10) address their concerns.

About 200 members of the Northern Virginia Tea Party, including head organizer Ron Wilcox, jammed themselves into the back room of the Amphora Diner in Herndon around noon to hear Wolf give an impromptu "State of the Union" speech and address specific questions about the future of the Republican Party.

"I have never been more concerned for our country," Wolf said. "If we were a business, we would be filing for bankruptcy."

For about five minutes, Wolf painted a dire picture of a U.S. whose debts are being continuously purchased by foreign powers while the current administration spends money foolishly.

"This administration has failed," Wolf said, "America may lose its AAA bond rating by 2013. Meanwhile President [Barack] Obama recently approved $23 million to be spent ratifying the constitution of Kenya."

After his short speech, Wolf was peppered with questions by tea party members wanting to know what he and the Republican Party were going to do about the future of the country, which many referred to as a "sinking ship."

"I have a reputation of honesty and integrity," Wolf said. "You can believe me when I tell you that a Republican Congress will come in next year, and it will address everything that needs addressing." Former Herndon Town Council member Ann Null asked Wolf what could be done by citizens working the polls to prevent voter fraud.

"The Republican Party should take on the responsibility of establishing teams of lawyers and a hotline that people can access if they witness any impropriety at the polls," he said. "These lawyers should be prepared to file immediate injunctions to keep voter fraud at bay. Anyone witnessing fraud should report it through this process."

After the short question-and-answer session, Wilcox thanked Wolf for attending and said the Northern Virginia Tea Party movement, which centers on fighting excessive government spending and taxation, was going strong.

"There are about 1,500 members and we are growing every day," he said.

"More and more politicians are coming to our meetings," said James Dimaria of Herndon. "They know that we are for real and that we are growing. They know they can not afford to ignore us."

"I think it is a healthy movement," Wolf said. "The tea party is a movement of the people and not an institutional one. The more citizen participation you have, the stronger a democracy becomes."

Virginia Politics Blog - State GOP will vote on Cuccinelli's proposal for higher filing fees at state conventions

2010-10-21T18:27:00.000-04:00

Virginia Politics Blog - State GOP will vote on Cuccinelli's proposal for higher filing fees at state conventions

State GOP will vote on Cuccinelli's proposal for higher filing fees at state conventions

The Republican Party of Virginia's governing board will decide in December whether to adopt Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's proposal to dramatically raise filing fees for statewide candidates seeking the party's nomination at political conventions.

Last month, Cuccinelli called for candidates for governor to pay up to $50,000 and candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general up to $25,000 to secure a spot at the party's nominating convention. He also wanted delegates to be charged for attending the convention.

Dave Rexrode, executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, said members of the Republican State Central Committee will vote on whether candidates for statewide office, including U.S. Senate, will pay fees of up to $25,000 and convention delegates will begin paying a mandatory fee.

Mike Thomas, the party's first vice chairman, wrote the State Central Committee in an email that the committee reviewing the party platform wants to limit the amount to $25,000. "This proposed amendment was discussed at great length, with the committee members feeling that a proposed filing fee of $50,000 for the office of Governor was too high,'' he wrote.

In an interview last month, Cuccinelli said an increase in fees would help pay for the cost of the convention and ensure conventions remain an option for the party. He said the state party lost money at the 2009 gathering where he, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) were nominated.

But some activists worry that raising filing fees could shut out candidates who have trouble paying the hefty fees to get into the nominating process.

"That's something that disturbs tea party patriots a great deal,'' said Ron Wilcox of Fairfax County, founder of the Northern Virginia Tea Party. "It's not in favor of tea party people being more involed in the Republican party. And that's very troubling."

The move is also likely to be seen as a way to ensure the party chooses a convention to nominate its gubernatorial candidate in 2013, a process that favors more conservative candidates who are popular with the party's grassroots -- like Cuccinelli.

But Cuccinelli has said that even with higher filing fees, conventions are cheaper for candidates than primaries, making them a better option for non-traditional candidates. And he denied that the move has anything to do with his own political future.

The costs of holding primary elections are paid by taxpayers, split between the state and local governments. Filing fees for primary elections are set by the state board of elections and set at two percent of the salary of the office sought.

The party plan previously called for gubernatorial candidates to pay $25,000 at conventions. But in March 2008, the party lowered filing fees to match those charged for primary candidates.

McDonnell paid just $3,500 to run unopposed at during the state GOP convention, or 2 percent of the governor's $175,000 salary. (Cuccinelli paid $3,000 in his three-way race while Bolling paid $762 to run against Patrick Muldoon).

In November 2009, after McDonnell, Bolling and Cuccinelli were elected, the amount was raised to 4 percent of the office's salary after some local parties complained that they had trouble paying for their meetings and conventions.

Convention delegates have not been required to be a mandatory fee since 1994. Last year, the more than 11,000 delegates were asked to pay $35, but many did not.

By Anita Kumar | October 13, 2010; 9:00 AM ET

Tea Partier offers job fix on CNN

2010-10-20T16:29:00.002-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWimDXQBwmE

Tea Party gets tough with MSM

2010-10-20T15:35:00.002-04:00

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=4295

NAACP and the Tea Party

2010-10-20T14:48:00.001-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5VDP5tAM4

A Vote For A Liberal Democrat Is A Vote For United Nations Control Of America

2010-10-20T14:06:00.000-04:00

ttp://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28914
By Jerry McConnell Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Please! Fellow citizens, do not give the corrupt, power-mad liberals more time in Congress—their goal is to destroy our Constitution, and our Country and be ruled by United Nations tyrants.

And this message is also for the other members of the Democratic Party that do not necessarily believe in the unorthodox methods and beliefs of their three radical leaders, Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Many are good Americans, like my father, who believed in America first and Party second. If his choice was to vote with his Party for a program that would saddle our country with huge debt and taxes on our citizens just to say that they could do it, he would vote against it. Those kind of Democrats are rare today.

Last Sunday (10/17) John Lillipop wrote a brilliant summation of the evils that the current Administration and its accomplice liberal Democrats in Congress have been and are still planning to inflict on our country. I was so impressed with the urgency and truth of what he detailed in his column here on Canada Free Press on Sunday, October 17, 2010, that I was moved to write this column of total agreement and further warnings to good, honest Americans who still love freedom and want to keep our country the same.

As this is being written, Obama and his State Department hatchet-woman, Hillary Clinton, are in the process of giving the United Nations total unilateral control over all of the weapons in the hands of all Americans. They are trying to do this WITHOUT even giving the citizens of America a chance to refuse such a treacherous and traitorous action. How dare they accommodate people who would scuttle us in a gnat’s whisker of time? This dictatorial conduct must not be allowed to go unpunished.

We MUST NOT ALLOW this double-crossing disloyalty to our country’s honest and true-blooded citizens to occur, because once they remove our only avenues of protection, we are helpless and will fall under the control of those who hate us just for being what we are; the greatest country ever.

For all those of you who doubt this or are in agreement with the traitorous liberal Democrats, many of whom are being duped unconsciously, please do an Internet search with the words, “Obama Clinton UN Gun Control.” You will be amazed at the sneakiness and outright unfaithful conduct both our usurper president and his willing accomplice Secretary of State would inflict on our unsuspecting country.

John Lillipop listed several items of disloyalty and certainly, impeachable offenses against the citizens of our country for which he is to be commended. Time is running out for corrections that can be made to put a halt to these unprincipled actions that would sink our country to the levels of the worst third world rogue nations.

Fellow citizens, we have less than two weeks before the elections on November 02, 2010; but in that short period, much harm and damage to our country can be administered by those power-mad liberals who have headed our country down the slippery slope to socialism-communism. We have to be extremely watchful of the actions of these American traitors who are citizens of doubt eager to sink our wonderful ship of state.

Led by the fortunes and finances of the nefarious Bildeberg Group consisting of multi-billionaires who are bored with the status quo that Americans love so much, there have obviously been promises made by such “should-be felons” as George Soros, the Rockefellers, Buffet and that ilk, to our liberal Democrats of the glorious “One World” universe controlled by them and other tin-pot despots of third world fame. These dupes, so easily lured and converted to be anti-Americans, follow along hook, line and sinker to the termination of the most successful country ever in existence in our world.

Please, Mr. and Mrs. Loyal America, take a stand with Mr. Lillipop and me and call out these traitors by voting AGAINST them even if you feel disloyal; because that feeling of disloyalty is justified by stopping the destruction of all that our county stands for; goodness, honesty and the principles of our founding fathers who took that same stand AGAINST the tyrannical forces of their day to put forth this great nation.

Stand with Americans who love their country; not those who would sink it for personal gain. Benedict Arnold was in that latter category and you know what real Americans think of him in history.

The forgotten man-video

2010-10-20T14:05:00.001-04:00

http://biggeekdad.com/2010/09/the-forgotten-man/

1963 Communist goals to destabilize the United States

2010-10-20T13:51:00.000-04:00

Just in case you've forgotten:

This is a list of communist goals to destabilize the United States, as presented to a Congressional hearing in 1963:

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers
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19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

How far do you think they have come in achieving their goals? Cite the number and why you think that particular goal has been achieved!

Tea Party Rally Against Connolly Spending

2010-10-19T20:53:00.003-04:00

Friday October 22: Tea Party Rally Against Connolly Spending

Congressman Gerry Connolly has participated in the largest expansion of federal power in our nation’s history. While he has tried to cast himself as a "deficit hawk", he has voted with Nancy Pelosi’s radical big government agenda 97% of the time, including the disastrous, budget-busting Obamacare! Come join your fellow patriots and let Gerry know we want a return to smaller government and fiscal responsibility in the 11th Congressional District!

Where: Near Gerry Connolly’s office, 4308 Ridgewood Center Dr. Woodbridge, VA 22192 (on the Prince William Parkway sidewalk) When: Friday, October 22, 2010 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm Why: To encourage Congressman Gerry Connolly to reject the radical leftist agenda of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama.!

Please join us at this important rally against abusive government spending in Northern Virginia.

Ron Wilcox

Northern Virginia Tea Party Organizer

More on the Northern Virginia Tea Party – Crystal Clear Conservative

2010-10-19T02:15:00.000-04:00

More on the Northern Virginia Tea Party – Crystal Clear Conservative

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I was going to conduct an interview with the organizer of the Northern Virginia Tea Party, and I followed through with this by interviewing Ron Wilcox, who is organizing the Tea Party, which will be taking place at the Merrifield Post Office on April 15^th from 5-7 p.m. I would like to thank Mr. Wilcox for his time, and I hope to see everyone at this event.

CCC: Why did you decide to throw a tea party?
RW: I was fed up with the out of control spending by the current Administration. The Administration is closely coordinating with the media to tamp down any opposition to their policies. Americans feel that NO ONE in Washington is listening to them. The silent responsible majority needs to be given a voice to counter the daily spin in the mainstream media.

I also felt the need for the I decided to organize Northern Virginia Tax Day Tea Party, because I felt that there was a real need to organize Northern Virginia for this and future Tea Party events. The DC event is in the middle of a work day preventing participation by many and others who simply do not like to go into DC for logistical reasons. Organizers say that we are on track to have 1250 tea parties nationwide with the goal of as many as 2009.

CCC: How many people do you anticipate to have at the event?
RW: I anticipate 200 or more people that are fed up with out of control Government, the area I have selected will be seen by every single person going to pay their taxes and could facilitate hundreds more demonstrators stretching down both sides of Lee Highway.

CCC: Have you experienced any issues with arranging a site for the tea party?
RW: We do not require a permit for our area but are working with the traffic authorities for everyone’s safety.

CCC: Will there be any guest speakers at this event? If so, who?
RW: We have invited State Senator [and current Attorney General candidate] Ken Cuccinelli and Congressman Frank Wolf.

CCC: Do you hope that this will spur other activist events in the future?
RW: Do I ever! Silent majority no more. We have a form on our web page so that people can sign up to get involved and be informed of this and other similar upcoming events.

CCC: What other groups have partnered with you to make this event possible?
RW: We are working with a number of civic minded individuals and groups. We are working with the DC Tax Day Tea Party and the Virginia Tax Day Tea Parties to help publicize our events. Also, we are coordinating with the Reston Tax Day Tea Party for maximum impact and attendance. The Reston event is being organized by the American Conservative Party. We will be posting their event on our website shortly when we have worked out a few details. We are also looking to work with the Leadership Institute for a 4th of July Tea party at their annual Conservative Soiree at Bull Run Park.

**Cross Posted at Virginia News Platoon

Posted in Economy, Virginia Politics.

Tagged with Congress, Economy, Tea Party.

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By crystalclearconservative – April 6, 2009

Meet and Greet

2010-10-19T01:03:00.002-04:00

Events

"Meet & Greet" Event this Monday 10/4/10,7 to 9 PM
Author to be "on deck" at 8pm, you may come as early as 6:30pm to catch the end of Happy Hour with 1/2 price drinks.

Join us at an informal (and free) "Meet and Greet" with short remarks by author Wayne Thoburn visiting us from Texas on the topic The Historical Roots of Today's Tea Party Movement. Wayne is the author of the new book, "A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom & the Creation of the Conservative Movement" (the book that names the names & key events in the creation of the modern day conservative cause and today's 912 & TEA Party movements). RSVP Acceptances here for the Mad Fox Meet and greet.

RSVP Acceptances here

A limited number of copies of Wayne's book will be available for purchase for $25 for autographing at the Mad Fox. Note: Wayne will also be at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC autographing his book at 12 noon on Tuesday.

Location: Mad Fox Brewery, 444 West Broad Street Suite I, Falls Church, VA 22046

7pm-9pm (You can arrive as early as 6:30pm to catch the end of happy hour which ends at 7pm)

This event is hosted by Arlington Tea Party, Falls Church Tea Party.

Sincerely,

Ron Wilcox

Founding Organizer

Northern Virginia Tea Party

BlueRidgeForum » Tea Party Meet: Co-option Concerns — But Tough Proposals

2010-10-19T00:58:00.000-04:00

BlueRidgeForum » Tea Party Meet: Co-option Concerns — But Tough Proposals

Tea Party Meet: Co-option Concerns — But Tough Proposals

“‘Is the governor going to fight for limited government, or is he going to be soft on limited government? You hear a lot of chatter about it. But let me just say this: The governor was elected for limited government and lower taxes. He needs to follow that,” said Ron Wilcox of Fairfax County, founder of the Northern Virginia Tea Party. ‘There’s been some troubling signs. I won’t deny that. But there’s still time.’” - - The Washington Post

The Washington Post’s Anita Kumar highlights a growing concern among grass-roots conservatives in her report late yesterday evening “At Va. tea party gathering, insurgents worry GOP will ‘co-opt the movement’ ” - -

“‘Some number of elected officials make sense, but we don’t want to come off like this is the establishment,’ said Dan Arnold, chairman of the Manassas Tea Party, which formed in April and boasts more than 200 members. ‘Our job is to hold the establishment accountable.’

The tea party, still in its infancy in Virginia, includes many members who supported McDonnell and fellow Republicans Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II last year but still consider themselves independents or libertarians. Some even voted for Democrats in past years.

‘Some in our group are worried it will be too much of a Republican show and they are letting Republicans control it,’ said Robert Alexander of Newport News, one of the organizers of the Peninsula Tea Party, which was created on tax day in 2009. ‘Everyone is concerned the Republicans are going to co-opt the movement.’” (Underscoring Forum’s.)

I Want Your Money

2010-10-19T00:38:00.000-04:00

I Want Your Money
"I Want Your Money"
A Conservative Documentary
The movie "I Want Your Money" made by a young filmmaker which contrasts the two views of government: that of Obama and Reagan. It is being shown this weekend in 500 theatres across the country, including the Courthouse 8 in Arlington and the Countryside 20 in Sterling. If they get good attendance, it may then be shown in over 2000 across the country before election.

The National Distribution of this movie will be determined by the Box Office Receipts THIS WEEKEND
You can learn more at www.IWantYourMoney.com

The only Northern Virginia theatre showing this movie is:

AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
2150 Clarendon Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201

And

Regal Countryside 20

45980 Regal Plaza
Sterling, VA 20165
(703) 404-8603

Let's give Conservative Reasoning a media platform by patronizing this movie!

Tea Party Proves to Be a Political Force with Staying Power

2010-10-19T00:36:00.000-04:00

Tea Party Proves to Be a Political Force with Staying Power

This is a great article about the future of the Tea Party movement.
This gives us hope that that policies that have been advanced by the liberals in Congress and the White House can be rolled back.

Ron Wilcox
Tea Party Organizer
Northern Virginia Tea Party

Grassroots Training Saturday, September 18

2010-09-10T22:02:00.005-04:00

Beat the Political Establishment - How Political Outsiders Like You Can Turn Things Upside Down

Be There ... or Be Ineffective!

What: "Learn how to Beat the Political establishment!" - A one day class that will radically improve your effectiveness in advancing Tea Party Values

When: Saturday, September 18th, from 9am-4pm

Where: 10740 Parkridge Boulevard, Reston, VA.(at Hunter Mill exit of Dulles Toll Road)

Northern Virginia Tea Party is offering you a private one day training session by two of Virginia’s top experts in issues advocacy and political persuasion – for ONLY $35 - including lunch! These guys will turn your impression of how to be effective completely upside down. Sign up, even if you can only attend half a day (though honestly you'll regret missing even a bit of this special program).

Every specialty has its experts, people who have learned things the hard way, so you don't have to. Steve Waters and Joe Glover, old hands in the Virginia issues and political scene, have not only been personally trained by the best instructors in “outside” issues advocacy, but they have also practiced and refined it in numerous issues and political campaigns. Their techniques, which you don't get from standard classes, are hugely effective.

As life-long conservative activist and leader Morton Blackwell says, “You owe it to your philosophy to study how to win”. At this one day class, Steve and Joe will share with you techniques that will transform your effectiveness in advancing Tea Party values.
Advance registration is mandatory, and we may have to turn people away do to the room size.

Please do the following two things:

First, Click on the PayPal link below to pay , then copy whatever confirmation information and then SECOND past this into our google form here; to guarantee your seat at this incredible training. (Our database does not interface with the PayPal.

You really owe this to your country, and your children, so we hope to see you there!

YouTube - Ray Stevens - We The People - RayStevens.com

2010-03-01T18:58:00.000-05:00

YouTube - Ray Stevens - We The People - RayStevens.com

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation - Telegraph

2010-02-28T23:56:00.000-05:00

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation - Telegraph

Press Conference to support legislation for protection of health care freedom

2010-01-27T01:30:00.000-05:00

At 1 PM Wednesday January 27th, please attend the Press Conference to
support legislation for protection of health care freedom. The location of
the Press Club http://www.press.org/directions.cfm at 1 PM 529 14th St NW,
13th floor NW, Washington DC 20045 Tel # 202 662-7500. Due to security for
the State of the Union on Wednesday, we will not be allowed onto the Capitol
for Cong. Michele Bachman's 2:30 PM Press Conference. This legislation
http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=167681
US Congresswoman
*Michele Bachmann* contacted grassroots TEA Party Patriots, 912
organizations to hold a Press Conference in support of Cong. Bachmann, Cong.
King & Cong. Gomert for the *Declaration of Health Care Independence*.

*By Metro*

- Take Metro to Metro Center.
- Take the 13th Street Exit, take escalator to 13th Street; you should
be at the corner of 13th and G Streets.
- Walk one block south to F Street.
- Turn right (West) and walk one block to 14th Street
- Turn left and walk downhill to the National Press Building lobby.
- Enter and take the elevators to the 13th Floor

*From Montgomery County*

- Take River Road south to Goldsboro Road and turn Right.
- Turn Left onto Massachusetts Avenue.
- Follow Massachusetts Avenue to 14th Street NW and turn right.
- From 14th Street turn left onto G Street - the PMI Garage is halfway
down the block on the left at 1325 G Street
- Walk out of the garage and turn right. At 14th Street turn left. Walk 1
1/2 blocks to the entrance to the National Press Building.
- Enter and take the elevators to the 13th Floor

*From Virginia*

- I-395 North
- Follow signs to 14th Street Bridge; Exit to 14th St
- Continue north on 14th St past Washington Monument past Freedom
Plaza and Pennsylvania Ave

Kirby's day on the Hill to Welcome Sen. Brown

2010-01-26T23:10:00.002-05:00

Kirby's day on the Hill to Welcome Sen. Brown

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/01/22/photos-of-the-week-jan-16-jan-22/
http://www.life.com/image/95921671

Today I went on Senate Hill with the US flag and a sign, "Thank You Massachusetts, Welcome Sen. Brown" and on the back side of sign " Harry, Democrats, Its the Jobs, Economy, Stupid". I was interview by CBS, Boston Globe, Roll Call, National Journal, Politico, AP, NY Times and several others.

Sen. Brown came out of the Senate Chamber Protocol, passed the press and came right to me and shook hands. Then even more press surrounded me and begin to ask questions. I think over 200 pictures were taken by press in all during the day. Many students here for the Pro Life Rally on Friday stopped and took pictures with me and sign. It was some day. I think the reason was that so many where on the Hill to document Sen. Brown's first appearance on Capitol Hill and I was the only one with a sign.

I told them that this AM I decided I wanted to be on the Hill for all those Tea Party Patriots and Doctors that came from across the country on 9/12 and 11/5 to tell Congress they were wrong on HC. That however the Democrats had not listened to the people because the Demo's had power to do what ever they wanted. That now with the Miracle in Massachusetts that the democrats would have to go back to the drawing board.

Told some of Brown's campaign workers that I had to admit I never believed he would win, that I did not believe that Massachusetts would elect a Republican and I did not want to get my hopes up. Sen. McCain saw my sign as his car drove up to the Protocol got out with a big smile, waved and said thank you.

Shook hands with Sen Sam Brownback KS, Sen. John Ensign NV and Tony Perkins Family Research Council.

But it was a great day for a hobby political person. There were a lot of happy people on Capitol Hill today. I was there from 10:30 AM-4:30 PM

Never Elect and Give a Party Total Power over the People

Ron Kirby

SENATORS “STICK IT” TO STATES

2009-12-26T20:10:00.001-05:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

Every U.S. Senator who voted for the health care reform bill “stuck” every State in the Union with a big bill that no State needs right now during a recession and falling revenues.

Because the health care reform bill affects every State by expanding Medicaid and demanding other new State expenditures, the new law will cost states billions of dollars at a time when the states have budget problems already.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration reported that the Senate bill will cost Indiana $2.3 billion over the next ten years. Much of the costs will happen in the first few years during the transition from the current systems to the new systems under the health care reform bill. The report states that the administrative costs for Indiana to change to an expanded Medicaid would be about $200 million.
Evan Bayh was the only U.S. Senator from Indiana who voted for the senate’s health care reform bill. The bill that Senator Bayh supported will cancel $450 billion in Medicare benefits to senior citizens, too.

To pay the costs of transitioning to the new health care reform law, every state will have to raise taxes or cut spending on current programs and services. Neither alternative presents an attractive political choice.

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Written on December 26, 2009 by Woodrow Wilcox
Wilcox News Service

The Art of Political War for Tea Parties – by David Horowitz

2009-12-01T01:39:00.000-05:00

The Art of Political War for Tea Parties – by David Horowitz

BE A RESPONSIBLE ELECTED LEGISLATOR

2009-11-20T13:02:00.002-05:00

BE A RESPONSIBLE ELECTED LEGISLATOR
By Woodrow Wilcox

Be a responsible elected legislator. A responsible elected legislator reads and studies a proposed bill before voting on it. A responsible elected legislator allows time for the voters to read and study a proposed law and advise their legislators about what they like or don’t like about it. A responsible elected legislator takes seriously the oath of office promise “to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies . . . .” How can you uphold that oath without reading and studying a bill or amendment before voting on it? You can’t. It is impossible. How would you know for sure that no part of the bill harms the Constitution and the liberties that it guarantees?

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have become high pressure sales artists. They want legislators to vote on Saturday nights when voters can’t reach legislators through the normal switchboards. They ask legislators to vote for bills or amendments without first reading them. Those are the tactics of high pressure sales artists.

If you sign a contract without reading it first because a high pressure sales artist persuades you to sign before reading and understanding the contract, then you are irresponsible. If you support a bill or amendment or procedure to forward a bill or amendment without reading it, studying it, and allowing the voters to review it and advise you, then you are an irresponsible legislator. And the label of “IRRESPONSIBLE” will stick on you in the next election.

High pressure sales artists pressure their victims to sign a contract before reading it because the high pressure sales artists don’t want the victim to learn what is in the contract before signing it. So, don’t be a victim of the high pressure sales tactics of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Be a responsible elected legislator. Allow the people to review every proposed law, amendment, and procedure and advise you on what they would like you to do. If you will insist on listening to the people in this way, then in the next election, no one will be able to brand you as “IRRESPONSIBLE”.

Note: For over six years, Woodrow Wilcox has helped senior citizens to correct medical bill errors that were caused by mistakes at Medicare and the VA clinics. Wilcox has saved senior citizens over $600,000 by canceling such wrongful charges. Also, Wilcox has edited a study on the problems caused for poor people, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and insured patients by the Medicaid system. For other health care related articles or videos by Woodrow Wilcox, visit http://www.medicareproblems.net.

Written on November 20, 2009 by
Woodrow Wilcox

OBAMA’S UNFAIR CRITICISM OF INSURANCE COMPANIES

2009-11-18T17:01:00.002-05:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS
OBAMA’S UNFAIR CRITICISM OF INSURANCE COMPANIES

By Woodrow Wilcox

Recently, Obama has been criticizing insurance companies. He has claimed that insurance companies make huge profits on health insurance. He has claimed that insurance companies charge for doing administrative work that has nothing to do with health care. To people who don’t know the details of the health care system, Obama’s claims may sound good. But, a closer examination of the facts will prove that Obama is wrong.

In recent weeks, both the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press have published stories giving the facts about health care insurance profits or lack thereof. Part of the headline of an article by Brett Arends in the Wall Street Journal read “INSURERS’ PROFITS ARE SO SLIM, IT WOULD BE HARD FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM TO WHITTLE THEM FURTHER”.

The Pulitzer Prize winning website POLITIFACT (www.politifact.com) called Obama on a false statement about insurance company profits last July.

On the other hand, an Associated Press story by Hope Yen about a government report government report that was just released exposes the fact that the MEDICARE system alone paid $47 billion in false or questionable claims in fiscal 2009.

Because I write articles about Medicare problems and have edited studies on Medicaid and the VA system, people send me information about problems in the system. One fellow from California who works for a billing service that deals with MEDICAL (California Medicaid) told me that he noticed suspicious billing. He created a program to spot suspicious billing and found over $2 million of questionable bills in a six month period. He brought the evidence to his supervisors, but they were not interested in contacting authorities because it was a small figure in percentage terms and they did not want the extra work. Based on what the informant told me, I extrapolated that suspicious claims in the MEDICAL system might be costing California taxpayers over $12 billion per year.

In the same government report, the Medicaid program for the poor spent $18.1 billion on false or suspicious claims. Also, the report reveals that the government agency over Medicare ignored internal watchdog or whistleblower warnings about fraudulent or suspicious billing.

Suspicious, false, and fraudulent claims cost billions of dollars per year in higher federal and state taxes.

Insurance companies must follow the laws and regulations on health care. Yes, there are administrative costs. But, almost all the administrative costs associated with health care insurance relates to complying with federal and state laws. When a suspicious or false claim is approved by Medicare, the insurance company that sold a Medicare supplement insurance policy must pay its share of the claim even if it believes that the claim is false.

In the Medicaid system, government policy “arm-twists” doctors and other medical service providers to take less than a standard fee for services. This government policy has made many doctors reluctant to help Medicaid patients because they can not even charge the government what they need to “break even” on their costs. This lack of available doctors has driven many poor people to overflow and overwhelm hospital emergency rooms. The hospitals don’t get paid by Medicaid what they need to “break even”. So the hospital increases charges for people who have insurance to make up the difference. This results in higher claims paid and premiums charged by insurance companies. Again, it is a government policy that creates the problem.

If we really want to fix the health care system and reduce costs, we need to work on fixing the government side of the problem first because that is the biggest source of problems. If Obama and his allies in Congress impose a national health care system that is based on the current systems, the problems will get worse and costs will rise even more.

In past articles, I have estimated that erroneous medical bills that are caused by mistakes at Medicare cost senior citizens in the U.S. OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR IN FALSE CHARGES. That estimate is based on my experience in helping senior citizens to correct over $600,000 of bad medical bills at the insurance agency where I work. The source of these wrongful charges is mistakes in the Medicare system.

If you think that health care is expensive now, just wait until the federal government makes it “free”.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For other Medicare related articles and videos by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net.

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Written on November 16, 2009 by

Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

"No Thank You Gerry Rally" Larger than Official "Thank You Rally"

2009-11-16T14:37:00.003-05:00

Here is the link to a story on Black Velvet Bruce Li on our competing rallies.
Despite the pouring rain, we out organized "Organizing for America"

There are pictures of the rally here too.

http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/11/13/tea-party-protest-dwarfs-organizing-for-america/

Keep up the good work!

SAVED LOWELL WOMAN $2,568

2009-11-12T16:05:00.001-05:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

SAVED LOWELL WOMAN $2,568

By Woodrow Wilcox

This morning (November 12, 2009), I saved an elderly woman $2,568. The client is from Lowell, Indiana. I saved the woman that money by finding problems with Medicare related medical bills and writing letters to cite the problems and get them corrected. The Medicare system is far from perfect.

The client had two problems.

In one matter, someone at a doctor’s office misread a MEDICARE EXPLANATION OF BENEFITS. Medicare disallowed a procedure for which there was a charge of $1500. But, Medicare went further and ruled that the patient was not responsible for the charge. The doctor’s office tried to bill the 78 year old patient anyway. I wrote a letter to the doctor’s office to alert the office to the error. Errors happen. I wrote a nice letter which should correct the problem.

The client had another problem. A local hospital had a collection agency send a payment demand letter to the 78 year old woman. The demand was for $1068. I checked on the matter by phoning the client’s insurance company. MEDICARE NEVER SENT THE CLAIM TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY. You can’t blame the insurance company for not paying a bill that it never got from Medicare.

To correct the mistake made by Medicare, I sent a letter to the hospital and the collection agency. In the letter, I explained the problem and requested that the hospital send essential information about the claim directly to the claims department of the client’s insurance company. When the hospital does that, I am confident that the $1,068 bill will be paid.

These kinds of problems with Medicare related bills happen all the time. Senior citizens who do not get help from someone like me end up paying bills that they don’t really owe. In the case of this woman from Lowell, I was able to save her $2,568.

This elderly woman is just one of the senior citizen clients that I helped this morning. This help was provided free of charge. Giving clients this level of service is just one of the reasons that this insurance agency has become the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest.

This level of service is needed by senior citizens all over America. Medicare related medical bill problems happen all the time everywhere. If Obama and his allies in Congress impose a national health care system that is modeled on Medicare, then everyone in America will have similar medical bill problems that are caused by mistakes in the new national health care system.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. He has fixed medical bill problems that were caused by mistakes at Medicare and the VA to save clients over $600,000. For other articles or videos by Woodrow Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.
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Written on November 12, 2009 by
Woodrow Wilcox
Wilcox News Service

MEDICARE HARMED NEW CLIENT

2009-11-12T00:10:00.000-05:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

MEDICARE HARMED NEW CLIENT

By Woodrow Wilcox

A senior citizen woman read one of my articles and decided to become a client of the insurance agency where I work. Then, she had a problem with a Medicare related bill not getting paid. Now, her case is the subject of an article by me. The woman is from Munster, Indiana.

The woman phoned me to tell me about the problem. I told her what papers I needed her to send to me for my review.

When I got the papers, I contacted the woman’s insurance company. She has a Medicare supplement policy with United World Life Insurance Company. That is a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha companies. So, she had a policy with a very good company.

My conversation with a representative of that company revealed that MEDICARE NEVER SENT THE CLAIM TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY FOR PROCESSING.

Medicare goofs like that often. Don’t blame the insurance company for not paying a claim that it never got from Medicare.

How do I help a client in such a situation? I connect the dots that Medicare missed. I sent to the insurance company essential information that I got from the client about the claim. Once the insurance company has certain essential information, it can legally process and pay on the claim.

If Obama and his allies in Congress impose a national health care system like that of Medicare on the nation, then millions more people will start to have unpaid medical bill problems like senior citizens have had for years.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For other articles or videos by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

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Written on November 10, 2009 by

Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Photos from the 11/05 House Call Press Conference and Lobbying

2009-11-09T01:31:00.005-05:00

Folks gathering for the rally, crowd too wide for lens to capture.

A sea of concerned citizens at the Bachmann Press Conference.

Citizen lobbyists waiting for the chance to see Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-5) and express their disapproval for the hastily written HR 3962 Government takeover of health care.

Constituents confront Congressman Connolly's Communications Director George Burke as he dissembles about the health care bill. Congressman Connolly was AWOL in "meetings" all day.

Part of a small group of counter demonstrators fighting to take away our health care freedoms. Medicare has more percent fraud and denies more percentage of claims than private insurance. So the guys with the higher fraud and claims denial are going to show private insurance how to be better??? Huh?

Last minute Changes in Thursday Capitol Rally

2009-11-04T22:52:00.003-05:00

Due to the anticipation of a very large crowd, the location has been moved to the WEST steps of the Capitol. The best metro stop is still Capitol South. To give you an idea of the scale, 26 bus loads of people are coming from New Jersey alone.

As a result of the large crowds, they strongly encouraged people to plan on arriving early to find parking and get to the Capitol.

Remember to be respectful, professional, but firm on where you stand on health care.

Other details remain the same:

Gerry Connolly constituents, Mychelle Brickner, former Fairfax County School Board Member, will be leading the 11^th District Delegation and will have a “Connolly” sign in the vicinity of the “Virginia” sign above. Bring a bring a letter or letters telling your Congressman to vote no on the Health Care Bill regardless of amendments. This bad bill cannot be repaired. If you cannot make it to DC for whatever reason, on Thursday drop a letter off at his Annandale office located at 4115 Annandale Rd # 103, Annandale, VA. In either case, make sure that the staff member notes that you came in opposition to the Health Care Bill.

· The Virginia Delegation will meet at 11:30am on the West steps of the Capitol. Look for the "Virginia" sign. The sign is a VERTICAL "political convention style" sign, it is just like what they use at conventions and has three sides so it can be seen from all sides. Marshall Smith will be holding the sign.

· Michelle Bachman will give her speech at noon on the Capitol Steps.

· Afterward, we can go visit our senators first, and then our representatives (for those who refused to meet with us behind Longworth Bldg)

· Tricia Stall has arranged for us to hopefully meet with some of our Virginia Congressman. Congressman Whitman is confirmed at 2:30 to meet with us all outside behind Longworth building, since we all wouldn't fit in his office. Behind Longworth there is a park at the corner of New Jersey St. and C Street. The park can be reached by walking down S. Capital St. or New Jersey Street. It is a grassy area with a fountain and benches and suitable for a large gathering. We will meet there at 2:30. We will wait to see who else meets with us during that time. She has invited other Representatives and Senators.

Stop Government Takeover of Health Care Rally Capitol Steps Nov.5 Noon.

2009-11-03T00:49:00.003-05:00

On Hannity, last week Congressman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota, 6th District) announced that she will be on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington DC on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at noon to confront Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress.

She is asking for other concerned Americans to come to Washington DC next week to protest the socialist health care bill being forced on the American public. She stated that many Democrats are on the fence and need to hear from their constituents.

Michele wants everyone not in favor of the health care bill to walk the halls of Congress and tell the Senators and Representatives they do not want the health care plan. She said she would like for all who come to Congress to make sure they visit the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and tell her what to do with her health care plan.

Northern Virginia Tea Party will be there, RSVP on the form on the right. We will notify you of the exact meeting location by email.

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS SAVED HOBART MAN OVER $1000

2009-10-27T00:12:00.000-04:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

SAVED HOBART MAN OVER $1000

By Woodrow Wilcox

A senior citizen client asked for help on a hospital bill. The man is from Hobart, Indiana. I helped him.

The bill balance was $1,103.66. The client has a good Medicare supplement insurance policy with Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company. That is a good insurance company.

I checked with the insurance company. Medicare never delivered the claim information to the client’s insurance company. The hospital wanted its money, of course.

To help our client, I wrote a letter to the hospital that explained that Medicare failed to send the claim information to the client’s insurance company. Then, I asked the hospital to send the essential information directly to the insurance company to correct the billing problem that Medicare had created.

When the hospital does what I asked, the insurance company will have the information that it needs to legally process the claim. This should eliminate the $1,103.66 bill problem that the client had.

This medical bill problem solving assistance is free to clients of this insurance agency. The owners, managers, and staff of this insurance agency really do care about our senior citizen clients. This commitment to service is one of the reasons that this insurance agency has become the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest.

Here is something to consider. If Obama and his allies in Congress impose a national health care system that is modeled on the Medicare system, then everyone in America will start to have the type of medical bill problems that this client experienced.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. To check other articles or videos by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

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Written on October 26, 2009 by

Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Northern Virginia Tea Party Protests Republican Newt Gingrich for Supporting Dede Scozzafava, a left-wing Acorn-backed "Republican"

2009-10-26T10:33:00.005-04:00

Republican former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich has endorsed Dede Scozzafava, a left-wing Acorn-backed "Republican", against Doug Hoffman, a conservative. Read this article for more details.

http://washingtonindependent.com/64135/club-for-growth-knocks-gingrich-over-scozzafava-endorsement

Numerous conservative and anti-tax groups are supporting Hoffman. NorthernVirginiaTeaParty.com does not endorse candidates, but we do hold supposed conservative leaders accountable.

Our protest was held at Newt's will be book signing at BOOK-A-MILLION, 1451 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22101 Saturday, October 24th from 1:30-4:00 PM.

MEDICARE MESSED MEDICAL BILL OF MERRILLVILLE WOMAN

2009-10-21T13:24:00.001-04:00

. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

MEDICARE MESSED MEDICAL BILL OF MERRILLVILLE WOMAN

By Woodrow Wilcox

Every day, I help senior citizens with medical bill problems that were caused by mistakes made by Medicare and/or the Veterans Administration medical clinics.

There are several possible causes of errors made by the federal government that cause senior citizens and veterans problems. The main source of error is the electronic data systems.

The federal government’s electronic data system causes the most problems. The system relies on telephone lines and satellite uplinks and downlinks for sending and receiving information about senior citizens, their identities, and their medical bills.

When there is a problem with the system, data becomes distorted or lost. When that happens, the medical bills of senior citizens on Medicare don’t get paid correctly or at all.

If Obama and his allies in Congress impose a national health care system on everyone, then everyone can expect these kinds of problems with their medical bills. I have helped senior citizens to correct bills of a few dollars and of over $200,000.

For over six years, I have helped senior citizens with Medicare billing problems and have written over 100 articles about such problems. Many of the articles can be read at www.medicareproblems.net.

Following is an excerpt of a letter that I sent to one of our clients after checking on an unpaid medical bill which caused her worry.

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The bill for $63.68 from St. Mary Medical Center was received by your Medicare supplement insurance company on October 15.

The federal government’s Medicare system FAILED TO SEND THE BILLING INFORMATION TO YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY by the normal means of “electronic crossover” which is a high-tech “email” system.

Your insurance company was able to obtain a “hard” (paper) copy of the claim on October 15 and is processing the claim now. The insurance company has up to 30 days to process a claim once it receives it.

I wanted you to know that we checked on this bill for you and that you should allow some time for your insurance company to process this claim.

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Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. Wilcox has saved senior citizens over $600,000 by canceling wrongful medical bills that were caused by errors made by the federal Medicare and/or Veterans Administration health care systems. For other articles or videos by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

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Written on October 20, 2009 by

Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Lies, Earmarks And Corruption All In One Bill

2009-10-20T12:13:00.002-04:00

Editors note: This just in from Congressman John Hoekstra's official website.
Lies, Earmarks And Corruption All In One Bill
Rep. John Shadegg and Rep. Peter Hoekstra

Washington, Oct 14 -

We are nominating Sen. Baucus' health care reform bill for the Pulitzer Prize — for fiction.

Like works of great fiction writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story line of the Baucus bill is not what it seems and is in fact a clever subterfuge of what health care reform will mean for the American people.

Hiding behind this facade is another story about a massive power grab by the Washington political establishment.

The bill is loaded with fiction. To begin with, it purports to reduce the deficit. This is really an Enron-style scam with the bill's massive new taxes starting on day one and its dramatic new health care expenditures, which will far exceed the tax revenues, beginning in year four.

Hence its favorable score: 10 years of revenue, seven of expenditures. In the private sector, people go to jail for this type of accounting; in the U.S. Senate, they trumpet it as good news.

The Baucus bill claims to treat all Americans equitably, yet four states receive Medicaid exemptions — the federal government will pick up the state's share of Medicaid costs — for five years. That means taxpayers in 46 states will subsidize other states, including Nevada, so Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can bring home the bacon and get re-elected.

Sen. Chuck Schumer put in a little-noticed provision that exempts New Yorkers and taxpayers from some other states from the bill's tax on gold-plated insurance plans. The result: The rest of the nation will subsidize the health care of New Yorkers and a few others.

If you're lucky enough to live in one of the favored states, you win. If not, you lose. Guess how many of those states are blue and have Democratic senators up for re-election? Hardly seems fair, does it? Huge earmarks and health care favoritism for states served by powerful Washington elites.

There are other massive earmarks in this bill. Up to $10 billion will go to VEBA, such as the underfunded retirement health care package of United Auto Workers retirees. This may or may not be a good idea, but it clearly does not belong in this legislation.

The bill has huge, new mandated costs on the states for Medicaid, and there are many other costs omitted from the bill that will need to be paid for by taxpayers. The bill claims savings it says will be achieved by reducing reimbursement rates to doctors and hospitals. This has never happened in the past and won't now. It is pure fiction.

There's more fiction in both the Senate and House versions. Despite Democrat claims to the contrary, both will cover illegal aliens and abortion, and virtually no Americans will be able to keep their existing plan. The legislation will cost billions more than estimated. The numbers and the promises just don't work.

Most importantly, and this is what the legislation is really about, the Baucus bill will transfer power from the American people to Washington elites — a power grab far more massive than it appears. Just think about it, the fiction (yes, some would call it lies) you're hearing about today is happening while people are watching.

Imagine what will happen with earmarks, political favoritism and social engineering when the details are negotiated by government bureaucrats, lobbyists and the Obama administration's "health czar" behind closed doors.

Putting politicians in charge will mean health care Soviet-gulag-style. If you're powerful and connected, you'll be just fine. If not, too bad. This is certain to get ugly.

Americans need to recognize what this is about. It is not about the quality or quantity of health care. It is about power, who will have it and who will give it up. It is about fiction. No, correct that — it is about an Enron-style accounting and bringing Washington-style corruption to health care.

Rather than rein in the power and control health care plans have now, and impose savings discipline by shifting that control to average Americans so they can get the care they choose, the bill empowers career politicians in Congress and Washington bureaucrats.

Actually, this bill doesn't deserve a Pulitzer even though it is ingenious and cleverly written — it deserves a criminal indictment for false, deceptive and misleading advertising.

The American people need to stand up and say no to this callous grab of power by Washington elites.

This is the first real test of the Tea Party movement to influence public policy. Americans are counting on their elected representatives to protect them from a tragically flawed health care bill.

Grass-roots America needs to speak out before it is too late. If not now, when? Time is running out.

• Hoekstra is a Republican congressman from Michigan.

• Shadegg is a Republican congressman from Arizona.

Make Mine Freedom Too

2009-10-19T09:00:00.000-04:00

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT, SENATORS, & CONGRESSMEN

2009-10-11T13:12:00.001-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

An elderly woman phoned me because she read an article by me in a local newspaper. The senior citizen is from Lansing, Illinois.

I listened to her story. She fell at a local drug store, was taken to a hospital, and got some stitches. The hospital got paid by Medicare, the woman’s insurance company, and by the drug store’s insurance company. Now, Medicare wants its money back. But, the woman does not have the money. When she phones Medicare’s bill collector’s phone number, she gets a recorded instruction to contact the company via the internet. The woman is 85 years old and does not know how to use the internet.

Normally, I would not help because I’m not supposed to help seniors who are not clients of the insurance agency where I work. I have helped senior citizens with medical bill problems that were caused by Medicare and by the VA medical clinic system for over six years. I have saved elderly clients of this insurance agency over $600,000 by canceling bad medical bills.

In this case, I decided to help this woman on my own time and at my own expense. Over the last six years, I have written over 100 articles about problems with the Medicare system. Many of the articles can be read at www.medicareproblems.net. I wrote all those articles and distributed them to newspapers around the country on my own time.

I’m not trying to boast. I just want to explain that I help senior citizens who have problems with Medicare. I care about senior citizens. I’m not sure that the President and some Senators and Congressmen do care about seniors.

There are problems with Medicare, the VA Clinics, and Medicaid. There are problems with other health care segments, too. But, no one can fix a problem by not listening to reasonable, responsible people who have experience in the field.

That is what I am accusing the President and some Senators and Congressmen of doing – not listening. The Democratic leaders and many Democratic members of the Senate and the House fashioned “their” health care reform bill without listening to the concerns of many respected people.

Rather than bringing people together to reach a consensus, the President and his allies have done exactly the opposite. No proposal by a Republican or a moderate Democrat was considered. The legitimate concerns of the dissenters were not reviewed to allow compromises to correct problems in the bill. The President and/or his allies called opponents of “their” health care reform bill “Nazis” and “racists” instead of listening to legitimate concerns about the bill. The President and/or his Democrat allies called health insurance company executives and employees “greedy” and “special interests” instead of listening to the legitimate objections of those people.

Citizens who read the health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) online and attended town hall meetings with their congressional representatives were shocked, insulted, and angered to realize that many of their congressional representatives never read the proposed law and just parroted some false talking points written by the supporters.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to bring people together. But, he and his Democrat allies in Congress have used arrogance, smugness, rudeness, insults, and disinformation to alienate many people in the country including other Democrats.

The President and his Democrat allies in Congress should stop the rudeness, listen to the legitimate concerns of those who object to problems in the current bill, and change the proposed law to get rid of the legitimate objections. No one can get other people’s cooperation by refusing to listen and casting insults.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For articles and videos by Woodrow Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.
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Written on October 9, 2009 by
Woodrow Wilcox
Wilcox News Service

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS MEDICARE HITS MUNSTER WOMAN WITH BILL

2009-10-09T13:25:00.001-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

A client of this insurance agency was surprised when Medicare refused to help pay for a pelvic and breast exam and a pap smear. The client is from Munster, Indiana.

The client in this article is not the same client that I reported to have that problem in a previous article. The facts are almost the same, though.

The woman’s doctor billed Medicare for the medical services and Medicare disallowed the claims because the services were performed outside the time limitations that Medicare has set for such services. So, Medicare denied the claims and now the senior citizen is stuck with the $105 bill for non-covered services of a pelvic and breast exam and a pap smear.

When a federal agency is faced with budget problems, new rules and regulations are invented to help the federal agency stretch its budget so that everyone at the federal agency will get paychecks on time.

Obama and his allies in Congress are trying to pass a law to make a national health care system based on Medicare. If that happens, millions more Americans will get stuck with unexpected medical bills when the federal agency over healthcare will make new rules and regulations to stretch the budget and make sure that all the employees of the new bureaucracy get their paychecks on time.

In such a case, health care consumers will be the big losers. The patients will get some very unexpected bills for medical services that they thought would be covered by the government health care system. Surprise, surprise!

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For more Medicare related articles or videos by him, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.
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Written on October 5, 2009 by Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

SENATORS URGED NOT TO KILL ENTREPRENEURS’ CREATIVITY TO SOLVE HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS!

2009-10-08T23:50:00.002-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

The managers of Hoosier Healthcare have sent a letter to every U.S. Senator urging that no bill be passed which would kill entrepreneurs’ creativity to solve health care problems. Hoosier Healthcare has three clinics in or near Valparaiso, Indiana.

The firm gives unlimited visits to its clinics for an individual for only $25 per month. Employers can pay only $20 per employee or $40 for an employee and entire family to provide unlimited visits to Hoosier Healthcare clinics.

Many of the other medical services provided at Hoosier Healthcare are provided at costs which are up to half what Medicare pays for the same services. Also, the firm has partnered with a local pharmacy to allow patients to buy many prescription medicines for only $4.

Donald Kiger is the President and CEO of Hoosier Healthcare. He has owned or managed several successful businesses. Over time, he thought of various business models and systems which might deliver quality health care at lower prices. Earlier this year, he decided to start the firm and test his ideas.

Dr. Dean Shoucair is the Medical Director of Hoosier Healthcare. He likes the business model and believes that it can help many people – including doctors.

“Many people are concerned about the idea of a single payer system and the complications from that. A number of medical schools are getting smaller enrollment because fewer people believe that they will be able to pay for medical school and make a decent living as a doctor,” Dr. Shoucair explained.

“We are helping to deliver primary care to the people in our community with our unusual business model and system. Other entrepreneurs have good ideas, too. It would be a shame if the U.S. Senate adopts any law that would kill entrepreneurs’ creativity to solve problems and improve the health care system for all Americans,” Kiger concluded.

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LETTER TO ALL U.S. SENATORS:
PLEASE, DON’T VOTE TO KILL ENTREPRENEURS’ CREATIVITY

Dear Senators,

Whatever you do in this session, please, don’t vote to kill entrepreneurs’ creativity to solve problems.

Our firm, Hoosier Healthcare, provides unlimited visits to our medical offices for only $25 per month. Employers can pay $20 per month per employee or $40 per month per employee’s entire family to allow unlimited visits to any of our three clinic offices.

Hoosier Healthcare provides many medical services at costs which are as low as half of what Medicare pays for the same services.

Hoosier Healthcare has adopted an unusual business model which allows our firm to provide primary care, urgent care, wellness care, and occupational health care at such low rates.

Finding the right business model requires creativity and freedom to experiment to learn what works to solve customers’ problems and use resources wisely. Government laws and regulations which are developed by committees of government officers and bureaucrats and which don’t allow creative problem solving is not the way to change health care for the better.
To learn more about how our firm does what it does to deliver quality primary health care and a range of other services at affordable prices, visit our website –

www.hoosier-healthcare.com.

We are solving the problem of high costs for primary health care right now in our community. We hope to expand and grow to help people in other parts of the country, too.

Allowing our firm and other entrepreneurs a chance to solve the nation’s health care delivery problems makes more sense than any other option at this time.

Please, Senators, don’t kill entrepreneurs’ creativity to solve problems and help America.

Sincerely,

Donald Kiger Dr. Dean Shoucair, D.O., M.P.H.

President & CEO Medical Director / MRO

Hoosier Healthcare; Porter County, Indiana; 1-888-282-8662

MISTER OBAMA – YOU’RE IGNORANT!

2009-10-06T13:18:00.002-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

In his September 9 speech to Congress, Obama criticized private insurance companies for not covering certain things. Obama is ignorant of the fact that the federal Medicare system won’t cover certain things.

For example, a client of the insurance agency where I work just discovered that Medicare won’t pay anything on his ambulance bill. He is a diabetic senior citizen and veteran from the Miller section of Gary, Indiana. Recently, his daughter phoned an ambulance for help. The ambulance people gave him emergency services for being a diabetic, but did not transport him. The treatment may have saved his life, but Medicare won’t pay for any first responder services. The client is stuck with a $250 bill.

Recently, three of our senior citizen clients were shocked to learn that Medicare refused to pay for their pelvic and breast examinations and pap smears. Two of the ladies are from Munster, Indiana and one is from Hammond, Indiana.

Medicare regularly refuses to pay for routine medical treatment, tests, and services if the items are done outside the time frames allowed by the rules of Medicare. Also, Medicare does not help pay for hearing tests or hearing aides, eye tests or eye glasses, or non-emergency dental services.

There are many problems with the federally run Medicare system. I have written over 100 articles about such problems and many of the articles are at http://www.medicareproblems.net. I have helped senior citizen clients to cancel over $600,000 in wrongful medical bills that were caused by mistakes at Medicare. There are problems with the federal Medicaid and the federal Veterans Administration medical clinics, too.

Obama and his allies in Congress want to impose a national health care system that is modeled on Medicare. That idea is based on the false belief that Medicare works great. It does not. If Obama does not understand this, then why shouldn’t citizens and Congressmen question his understanding and proposals for change of the health care system? That doesn’t mean that the current system is perfect. It just means that Obama and his allies have made up their minds without even listening to reason or considering the facts.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For more articles or videos by him, visit http://www.medicareproblems.net, http://www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

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Written on October 6, 2009 by Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS THAT WANT OBAMACARE

2009-10-05T11:24:00.002-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox
Barack Obama claims that special interest groups oppose his health care reform plan. Maybe lots of people don’t like the details of his plan. But, one thing is for sure. There is an array of special interest groups that want “Obamacare”. Here is a list of some of those special interest groups.
(1) Labor unions that have contracts with the federal government or government industry contractors in the fields that now run the Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans health clinics. These unions would expand their membership and increase their union dues and other revenues under “Obamacare”. Also, these unions would increase their political power.
(2) Government industry contractors which sell or lease computer equipment, computer services, and satellite telephonic equipment or services to the federal government. It is computers and satellite telephonic equipment and services which are the backbone of the Medicare, Medicaid, and VA health clinic system.
Government contractors like General Electric, Westinghouse, and a few other companies are the main sources of computers and satellite telephonic equipment and services.
For your information, General Electric owns or controls the NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, and other media companies. So, when MSNBC announcers like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann attack those who oppose “Obamacare”, they are really working to help “Obamacare” become law because their employer General Electric and other government industry contractors stand to gain billions of dollars in new government contracts and billions of dollars in new profit.
A few years ago, Westinghouse owned CBS. But, then, Westinghouse pealed away CBS and helped to create Viacom. There is still an “old boy” network of friendships and financial interests between Westinghouse and Viacom. Viacom owns or controls CBS, MTV, MTV2, VH1, BET, BET J, Nick At Night, TV LAND, Comedy Central, CMT, Spike TV, and other media properties.
General Electric and Westinghouse operate businesses in medical equipment and medical services. Westinghouse operates hospital services, too.
The main source of my information on these government industry contractors and their media interests is the “WHO OWNS WHAT” report at Columbia Journalism Review (www.cjr.org).
Big government industry contractors like big government because that is THE CUSTOMER of big government industry contractors. Big government industry contractors stand to gain billions of dollars if “Obamacare” becomes law.
(3) Homosexuals are a special interest group that supports “Obamacare”. Homosexual and promiscuous lifestyles often lead to “AIDS” and/or other sexually transmitted diseases. Treating these diseases is often expensive. Many insurance companies refuse to sell health insurance to those with the pre-existing condition of “AIDS” or other sexually transmitted diseases. “Obamacare” would shift costs of the expensive treatments for these diseases onto the general population – the taxpayers and the private insurance companies. Many people who have an insurance policy now may see their insurance premiums rise substantially once “Obamacare” forces everyone else to help pay for treatment of “AIDS” and other diseases for those who follow homosexual and/or promiscuous lifestyles. Homosexuals and homosexual interest groups contributed enormous amounts of money to the Obama presidential campaign.
(4) Illegal aliens are a special interest group that wants “Obamacare”. Many illegal aliens use other people’s social security number in their jobs. It gets messy when a medical service provider or health insurance company starts asking for verification of the identity of the patient because the social security number seems to indicate a different person. It’s not just the illegal aliens who are in the U.S. now who want “Obamacare”. If “Obamacare” passes, millions of really sick people and their families from other countries will flood the U.S. to get some free or cheap “Obamacare”. That just might break America’s health care system.
(5) Democrats who control local governments throughout the nation are a special interest group that wants “Obamacare”. In many places where Democrats control local government or state government, millions or billions of dollars are spent for medical care for the poor. In a recent news report, one county commissioner of my home county said that Lake County, Indiana – the county that borders Chicago – spends over one hundred million dollars per year on health care for the poor. “Obamacare” would shift most or all of these expenses onto the federal government. Millions or billions of dollars would become available to state or local governments that are controlled by Democrats. Those Democrats want to spend that money on other things.
There are other SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS that support “Obamacare”. But, this is a good list of the major ones.
NOTE: For other articles by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net, www.woodrowwilcox.com, and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

© 2009 Woodrow Wilcox
Written on October 2, 2009

Another great article by Woodrow Wilcox

2009-09-27T22:05:00.001-04:00

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

HOW MEDICARE DOES NOT WORK

By Woodrow Wilcox

When one of the clients of this insurance agency has a problem with a Medicare related bill, it usually comes to me. I am the senior medical bill problem solver at the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest.

This agency does not charge our senior citizen clients to help them with Medicare medical bill problems. It costs the agency money, but we do it without charge to be helpful and demonstrate our concern for our clients. In the last six years, I have saved clients of this insurance agency over $600,000 by canceling wrongful bills that were caused by Medicare mistakes.

Whether the problem involves a few dollars or thousands of dollars, errors caused by Medicare can cost senior citizens time, money, and stress.

If Obama and his allies in Congress succeed in forcing a national health care system modeled after Medicare, then everyone will start to experience the same medical bill problems caused by errors at government agencies which senior citizens have had with Medicare for years.

The errors caused by Medicare are caused by errors or problems with systems, mechanics, or personnel (human errors). The errors cost time and effort to the insurance agency, insurance company, and medical office personnel who must work to fix a problem caused by Medicare.

Today, I had to investigate and write two letters for one of our clients to get her medical bills corrected and paid properly. Medicare never sent the claim to the client’s insurance company. That happens quite often.

It costs time, money, and effort to correct medical bill problems that are caused by Medicare. It is a drag on the national economy. If a national health care system that is modeled on Medicare is imposed, the problems that it creates will be a much bigger drag on the national economy.

Note: For other Medicare related articles by Woodrow Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net and www.woodrowwilcox.com.

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Written on September 21, 2009 by Woodrow Wilcox
Wilcox News Service

CONGRESSMEN MORAN AND SCOTT VOTED NOT TO DENY FEDERAL FUNDS TO ACORN.

2009-09-20T01:24:00.000-04:00

The 345-75 roll call Thursday by which the House amended the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 to deny all federal funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.

A ''yes'' vote was a vote to pass the amendment.

Voting yes were 172 Democrats and 173 Republicans.

Voting no were 75 Democrats and 0 Republicans.

X denotes those not voting.

Present denotes those who voted they were ''present'' at the time of the vote but did not vote yes or no on the issue.
There is one vacancy in the 435-member House.

Democrats -- Boucher, Y; Connolly, X; Moran, N; Nye, Y; Perriello, Y; Scott, N.
Republicans -- Cantor, Y; Forbes, Y; Goodlatte, Y; Wittman, Y; Wolf, Y.

>From The New York Times

PLEASE NOTE THAT CONGRESSMEN MORAN AND SCOTT VOTED NOT TO DENY FEDERAL FUNDS TO ACORN.

OBAMA IS IGNORANT OF MEDICARE

2009-09-12T11:02:00.002-04:00

By Woodrow Wilcox

In his address to Congress on September 9, Obama insisted that insurance companies pay for routine tests. Apparently, he is ignorant of the fact that MEDICARE will not pay for routine tests.

Medicare routinely denies coverage for routine medical services, for medical services that are outside the time frame rules of Medicare, for hearing tests, for eye examinations, for dental services, and other medical services.

On the day of his speech, I helped a woman from Schererville who was billed $150 because Medicare refused to pay for a routine test. Recently, two of our senior citizen clients, one from Hammond and the other from Munster, were surprised when Medicare refused to approve and pay for pelvic and breast exams and pap smears for them..

Here is my point. Obama criticizes private insurance companies for not covering some routine medical tests when the federal government run Medicare system regularly denies coverage for many routine tests and many other medical services. If Obama is ignorant of that, don’t voters and members of Congress have a right to question his understanding of health care reform legislation?

One Indiana citizen who read the entire health care reform bill is Dr. Stephen Fraser. Dr. Fraser wrote a long letter to Senator Evan Bayh in which he cited the section, paragraph, sentence, and page number of everything in H.R. 3200 (the health care reform bill) which Dr. Fraser disliked.

You can read Dr. Fraser’s letter to Senator Bayh and watch video interviews of Dr. Fraser at www.medicareproblems.net.

Two of Dr. Fraser’s objections are of special interest to senior citizens. Dr. Fraser objects to the idea of allowing a government approved person who is not a medical doctor to sign a DEATH ORDER for a patient. Dr. Fraser does not like the idea of Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, being a key person in the writing of regulations under a health care reform bill. In one of the interviews on the website www.medicareproblems.net, Dr. Fraser cites articles in American and European publications which detail Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel’s support of euthanasia and refusing medical services to young and old patients.

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For other articles or videos by Wilcox, visit www.woodrowwilcox.com and www.woodrowwilcox.tv.

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Written on September 11, 2009 by Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Northern Virginia Tea Party on 9/12

2009-09-11T18:55:00.003-04:00

BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT TO STOP BIG GOVERNMENT!

Are you fed up with out of control spending, bailouts for insurance, banks, car companies, and more? Are you sick over the growth of big government and the soaring deficits that rob our children and grandchildren? Do you want to protect the freedoms our Constitution provides?

Join thousands of grassroots Americans from across the country as we gather in our nation’s capital to deliver a message to the politicians: ENOUGH!

SATURDAY 9-12-09

MEET IN D.C. AT FREEDOM PLAZA AT 9 AM (There will be speakers and music until the march kicks off at 11:30)

11:30 MARCH TO THE CAPITOL

1PM RALLY

DETAILS and REGISTER FOR THE MARCH AT www.912dc.org. (please register if you are going)

Once at Freedom Plaza look for the Virginia State Flag to join your fellow Virginians

If you wish to go into DC in a group these are the No.Virginia meeting locations that I am aware of:

West Falls Church Metro at 8:15 - 8:30am

Ken Vaughn (kvaughn@me.com ) has organized a group to go downtown together. If you wish to join him, RSVP to http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-912-Group/ so he knows who to expect. Please be aware that this group will miss the colonial reenactment.

Springfield/ Franconia Metro at 8:15 – 8:30 AM

Just show up and we (Mychele Brickner and whoever else wants to come) can go together. We will leave on the first train at 8:30 am.

What to Bring:
Water (some frozen for later in the day)
Snacks/Lunch
Backpacks are allowed
Sign or other appropriate items (e.g., flags).
small umbrellas, hats, caps
lawn chairs
camera/video recorder
blankets
coolers (no rollable coolers)
See Restrictions

Restrictions:
Everything will be inspected by police
No firearms or ammunition, remember this is DC and they have much tighter gun control laws than VA, despite the 2nd Amendment
Flags must be on Wood or PVC poles (no metal!) and must have two blunt ends.
There will be many people and we will be marching (and traveling on Metro) - only bring what you can carry
No bullhorns
Nothing to sell
Nothing to stake into ground
No tents or canopies

Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.

2009-09-08T19:08:00.001-04:00

Eyewittness Report on Warner Fredercksburg Sept. 3 Event

2009-09-05T11:46:00.003-04:00

From one of our corespondents:

FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF SEN WARNER’S TOWN HALL – SEPT 3

This is a first-hand report to the South Wales TEA Group and the Culpeper Community TEA Parties on my contact list.

My husband and I attended the Senator Warner Town Hall Meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. We had a one day notice about the meeting but 5 of us carpooled to Fredericksburg. We got there at 5PM in order to get good seats.

The national news media was there. Outside, as a reporter was taping report a report, the pro-health care group was already lined up behind the reporter for the camera shot. When my husband and I tried to get into the shot with our signs, the cameraman screamed at us to back up and not threaten the reporter. If you knew me, you’d laugh at this. I’m a very scary looking grey-haired granny.

Inside, we got seats in the front center section, behind the already reserved seats for the pro-health care sign holders (all pre-printed). People who wanted to ask questions were given numbers that would be selected at random. There were at least 1000 people there. Of all the questions asked, I recall 2 or 3 were pro Obama reform to 25 enthusiastically against it. We left around 8:30; it started at 7PM and questions were still being asked.

Based on the crowd reactions, I would say the ratio was about 4 or 5 (against) to 1 pro Obamacare. Whenever the crowd cheered the Constitution or against the plan, the group in the front rows held up their pre-printed pro-Obamacare placards. In this way, the TV camera crews were able to film them and it would look like the cheering was for President Obama’s reform.

There were lots of young people there with pro-green jobs signs. We sat next to 2 of them. One of our carpool members engaged them in conversation. They were there on a college class assignment. They handed us a printed list of talking points. They were nice kids but didn’t seem to have a clue why anyone would be against the President’s plans for our country. We educated them a bit.

All in all, it was an exhilarating experience for me. There are a lot of wonderful people in our state who care about our country and the direction it is going. My husband’s sign “I HAVE 2 YEARS TO LIVE”, he’s 63, was on the DC local Fox News channel. My sign, “Obamacare = Debt and Taxes” was on ABC News. We think being there made a difference. We are proud of our TEA Party members and hope you will stay involved in the action.

We will stay in touch with you to keep you informed. That’s our #1 goal.

August 25 Moran/Dean Healthcare Reston VA Townhall Observations

2009-09-02T08:25:00.004-04:00

>"What follows are the observations of one of 40% of attendees who opposes Obamacare. Thank you all for such an excellent showing, despite an all-out attempt by socialized healthcare advocates!

Town Hall Log

The Town Hall hosted by Jim Moran (D, VA) and Howard Dean on Tuesday, 8/25/2009, was a gross charade of propaganda. I’m a young entrepreneur, working 80 hour weeks for two jobs – one for a startup company that is still trying to make it and has no profits, the other to pay my bills. With an education in biomedical engineering from a top-20 college of engineering, I have some very poignant insights to offer our leaders on the healthcare topic. I sacrificed almost 3 weeks of my duty to my fellow work-horses to research fundamental issues with healthcare that no one is talking about because the REAL topics are politically inflammatory.

Howard Dean and Moran even admitted in the meeting that Tort Reform was ‘too contentious to pass the judiciary committee’ and that it would have to be done in a separate measure. Curiously enough, neither Dean nor Moran mentioned English Rule at all in regards to Tort Reform. When I pinned down Moran after the town hall meeting, he told me personally that he would support English Rule.

I don’t believe him. I believe he was disingenuous in the way that he brushed me off, even after I handed him dozens of pages of critical charts and information that should be taken into consideration for the benefit of all Americans. I want him to declare his support for English Rule on the record (among many other things that I discuss in my whitepaper).

Now, I believe it is my duty to my Country and future employees because the politicians have turned the debate into an emotional shell game that’s focused on subjectivity and ideology rather than facts and hard principles. They play on the guilt, envy, and fear of the public on both sides to herd them into a support-caucus. This manipulation is grossly immoral, but expected from the status-quo Washington political machine.

My greatest takeaway from the Town Hall was having the pleasure to meet Griff Jenkins in person, and also observing in person what is so dysfunctional about the way that the political machine and partisan constituents operate.

What we experienced at Moran’s Town Hall was less than productive:

1. Filibuster or Incompetence? Jim Moran said that he would only speak for 30 minutes and that he would take questions for 90 minutes. Instead, his prepared presentation lasted for nearly an hour, yet he did not stay overtime to take more questions. In addition, he admitted that he was nervous about the question-answering session – betraying his motivation to filibuster with his canned presentation that ran so long. Only one of two possibilities – either it was an intentional filibuster, or he is incompetent from failing to stay within his time budgets and making a presentation that was poorly planned.

2. Salesmen routine trumps seeking insight from votersIn typical, party-politics, sock-puppet fashion, both Moran and Dean simply regurgitated the talking points of the Democrat party. His presentation was loaded with Democrat talking points and provided zero educational value because they did not focus on root causes of the healthcare struggles. There were even blatant distortions when he proselytized the Democrat version of what is “Myth” versus “Fact.” I immediately felt like I was watching two salesmen on stage, rather than noble and intelligent statesmen. We went away feeling like we just took a trip to a used car dealership rather than a serious civics forum.

3. Our representative proved to be uninformedThere were many times when Moran lacked the knowledge to answer certain questions and he deferred to Howard Dean in his stead. I have sacrificed much of my own time without being paid for it, so this was highly offensive. A man who we pay exorbitant tax money was less informed than some citizens. What are we paying him for? What is he doing on our dollar? If Moran spent more time studying the real aspects of the issue and less time memorizing the Democrat talking points, he would make a true statesman out of himself.

4. Obama’s employees fraudulently manufacture false support (Astroturfing)The following prominent Democrats accused citizen-opponents of disingenuous dissent, manufactured dissent, or conspiratorial organization by insurance companies (Astroturf): Barbara Boxer (8/4/09), Brad Woodhouse (8/4/09), Nancy Pelosi (8/5/09), Robert Gibbs (8/5/09), Nancy Pelosi & Steny Hoyer (8/10/09), John Dingell (8/10/09), Baron Hill (8/11/09), Bill Burton (8/12/09), Harry Reid (8/13/09), Arlen Specter (8/17/09), Maxine Waters (8/24/09), Howard Dean (8/24/09).Without any hard evidence of conspiracy, these Democrats impugned passionate and concerned citizenry to attempt to discredit them using the following propaganda techniques: Black-and-white fallacy, common man, demonizing the enemy, half-truth, labeling, name-calling, scapegoating, and quotes out of context. Unfortunately, the Jim Moran town hall has uncovered the first provable evidence of real conspiracy and astroturfing – only the Obama organization is the guilty party, caught red-handed.The following image shows Jim Moran’s official advertisement for the event, which indicates clearly that this event was only intended for “Virginia 8th District Residents” and in his motivation he claims that he wants to “hear from 8th District constituents”:

In addition, Jim Moran posted signs at each entrance which indicated that the event was intended for Virginia 8th District residents. I became suspicious of Moran’s civil procedures even before the event began. Jim Moran’s volunteer “security” was from the “Elevator Employee’s Union”. We asked them, “how will you enforce Moran’s rule for this event that is ‘for 8th District only’?” They responded that they wouldn’t be enforcing it. Next, the professionally-dressed Moran staffers were asked the same questions, and responded in the same way. Although Moran claimed at the beginning of the forum that 8th District residents would receive priority in the questioning, he lied again, because he implemented no measures to affect that promise. Questions were thrown into boxes from anyone who was let into the school.Reporter Griff Jenkins observed that support at this Town Hall was 60% in support of Obamacare, and 40% against. We reflect that observation. Here’s the kicker though – Obama’s support was manufactured and ‘Astroturfed’, whereas the opposition had no directives (as was evidenced by the diversity and disorganization of the opposition). By contrast, the Obama supporters moved in unison, with identical signs, with identical voices of ‘yes we can’, and with identical shouting points. How did Moran, Dean, and Obama manufacture this support? Easy, they used Obama’s very own digital network to turn out non-8th District residents in violation of the rules postulated by Moran online:

From: Brandyn Keating, VA.BarackObama.com [mailto:info@barackobama.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009
Subject: Tomorrow: Show your support in Reston
I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important town hall with Rep. Jim Moran this Tuesday, August 25th.

He'll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback. Whether you ask a question or show your support with a sign, attending this town hall is a powerful way to show where you stand and thank those in Congress who are fighting for reform.

I hope you can join us. Here are the details:
What: Town Hall with
Rep. Jim Moran

Where: South Lakes High School Auditorium
11400 South Lakes Drive
Reston, VA 20191

When: Tuesday, August 25th
Arrival Time: 5:00 p.m.
Start Time: 7:00 p.m.

Please arrive as early as possible to the town hall, and make sure that the most powerful voices in this debate are those calling for real reform, not angrily clamoring for the status quo.

RSVP here:
Thanks,
Brandyn

Brandyn Keating
Virginia State Director
Organizing for America

P.S. -- Before the event, please print off a flyer to display and make sure that your support is visible.

Now that’s Astroturf! Change we can believe in? Facts say, nope! Just dirty politics, and manufactured support-caucuses as usual. Obama is Organizing for America? Nope, just Astroturfing for partisan politics. Question: can politicians be sued for false advertising?
2. Bad questions. Were they cherry-picked by Moran?
This part is speculation, but I am positioned to believe that Moran cherry-picked the questions. Instead of simply calling on people, he made people put their questions into three boxes prior to the town hall. There was one box for questions that supported Obamacare, one for those that opposed, and one for undecided. As an independent, my question went into the undecided box. But from the poor quality of the questions, and the previously mentioned behavior and manipulations of Moran, I am inclined to believe that Moran’s staff filtered through the boxes prior to the beginning of questioning around 7:52 PM. I am inclined to believe that they allowed questions that were not very technical, and not too tough so that the uninformed Democrat politicians would not have to look foolish. Every question except for two were completely based on emotions, hearsay, personal stories, and other items of subjectivity which only required the politicians to respond in terms of belief and subjectivity. All but two questions were immensely uninformed and did not cut to real issues. For all of these reasons, I am inclined to believe that Moran’s staff triaged the questions prior to handing the boxes to Moran almost an hour later, so that the citizenry would not look more informed and intelligent than the politicians.
3. $2.35 Trillion in spending and a massive overhaul? Moran and Dean don’t care, it doesn’t affect themOne of the most appalling things was the elitist and arrogant demeanor that Moran and Dean held throughout the Town Hall. At one point, when Obama-followers and the opposition began screaming at each other (while independents looked on with disgust) – Dean and Moran actually smiled and reveled with glee. The only times they showed disappointment, exertion, and stress was when their opposition spoke up against them with no counter.This was a crucial observation. As an independent thinker and leader, my reaction to the volley of emotional banter was disgust, pity, and sorrow – for so many fellow citizens to be engaged in an ideological and uncivil activity. But the politicians? They love it. They don’t see themselves as part of the warring gaggle that they inspire, laugh at, and smile at. They are not gravely concerned when citizens are acting on faith and bandwagon, rather than civility and rationale.This made the distribution of George Washington’s rules for civility even more offensive – to see both of these Obama-marionettes on the stage, smiling and reveling in the incivility they claimed to decry.What’s worse is that this action made it clear – they don’t care about what this does to the middle and lower classes. They know it will never affect them and their families, and are comfortable in their privileged status. Anyone who appreciated the gravity of their decisions would never be able to revel in irrational handling of the topic by those who it will impact.
Conclusion

Truth be told, this was a rewarding experience. But not from anything that Moran did. It was rewarding to get a first-hand view of how dysfunctional our politicians are. At any point, Moran and Dean could have turned around the tenor of this forum. But that would have required independent thinking, and empathy for all parties.

If I had the authority of Moran, I would have satisfied the crowd by:

1. Dismissing Howard Dean at 9 PM
2. Apologizing for not sticking to the 90 minutes of questioning that I promised
3. Offering to answer enough questions to make up the time difference, until 9:22 PM
4. Telling my supporters, that I have spent 52 minutes espousing the merits of the bill, and that I would only be seeking questions from undecided or dissenting opinions
5. Requiring questions to come only from the 8th District residents as I promised in the beginning of my presentation
6. Apologizing for my need to continue business and leave, but offering my staffers to stay behind until 11 PM to take the remaining questions, and promising that I will watch the video later so that I could hear more voices of my constituents, and promising them an email reply to their question from my own hand
I took a survey of about 400 people on my social networks. I asked them whether or not they were attending healthcare town halls, and the reason why. 92% responded that they were not attending and the reason they gave was that they don’t believe their voice would do anything. It made me sad to see my fellow citizens with such cynicism and hopelessness for their own freedom and importance. Unfortunately, Moran and Dean proved the cynics to be correct, and proved my hard work, faith, and trust to be incorrect.

People need to take this very seriously. I chose to side with the pursuit of truth rather than a political party. It allowed me to author a 30+ page whitepaper on the topic, from the mind of a biomedical engineer. Unfortunately, none of these helpful analyses will reach a politicians’ ears. Moran and Dean are not fit for leadership. If they had sought real diversity of thought, they might have accessed some very helpful insight from constituents. As it turns out, they were just interested in pitching the party line. There is no change. There is no civil discourse. Our leaders will not allow for it.

Upcoming Events Sept. 1 and 2, 2009

2009-08-30T18:32:00.001-04:00

Keith Fimian will hold a town hall meeting on health care reform on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

The location and time for the event is as follows:
Fairfax County Government Center; Board of Supervisors Auditorium
12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax , VA 22030
7-9 PM. Doors will open at 6:30PM
The town hall meeting will consist of a panel of experts from non-profit organizations and think tanks. They will be present to talk about proposed legislation and answer questions of interest to citizens only on the issue of health care.
The panel format is an educational forum with different views on the health care issue and is not an argument about politics. At the town hall meeting citizens will have an opportunity to ask questions about this important issue.

Event #2
WHAT The Prince William County Tea Party will hold a Rally/Demonstration outside of the Heritage Hunt Retirement Community in Gainesville.

WHEN September 2, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

WHERE Heritage Hunt Retirement Community, Gainesville, VA. See directions for travel information.

DETAILS Gerald Connelly, our congressman, will be attending a health care "forum"on September 2 at 7:00 PM at Heritage Hunt Retirement Community in Gainesville. This is a "private" meeting not open to the general public, but is billed as an informational meeting on health care. AARP and other "health" organizations will be part of a panel discussion.

DIRECTIONS: West on Rt66 to exit 43b--go straight across Rt29 to Heathcote Blvd and travel~ 1/4 mile to traffic light at corner of Heritage Hunt Drive on right. This is where the demonstration will be held. There is only one entrance to Heritage Hunt.

To the left across the street at that point, there is a shopping center as well as an office building that should provide some parking.

Opt into our list below to posted on the latest details.

New Event Connolly Town Hall August 25

2009-08-20T14:41:00.002-04:00

Just in, Obamacare protest near gated Greensprings Village retirement community at Village Springs Drive and Fairfax County Parkway. 12pm to 2pm. More details and location subject to correction and change as we get more information. To be held near 7470 Spring Village Dr. Springfield, VA 22150-4487

HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL IS BAD MEDICINE FOR SENIORS

2009-08-19T22:41:00.003-04:00

I just received this great piece by email, I thought it would be great for everyone to read. Ron Wilcox (no relation to Woodrow)

HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL IS BAD MEDICINE FOR SENIORS
By Woodrow Wilcox

I got an email about a letter from a doctor in central Indiana to Senator Evan Bayh. I wanted to make sure that there really is such a doctor and that he really did send a letter to Senator Bayh about the health care reform bill that is being discussed.

Yes, America, there really is a Stephen E. Fraser, M.D. He really did read the entire health care reform bill. He really did write a lengthy and detailed letter to Senator Evan Bayh in which he stated his concerns and objections to the bill.

I have posted the entire and unedited letter of Doctor Fraser at my website www.medicareproblems.net. You can read it and compare it to the health care reform bill because his letter gives every citation that you need to check his findings.

From what I read, the health care reform bill is “heap big bad medicine”. But, it is especially bad medicine for senior citizens, handicapped or disabled people, and political dissidents that a government official might want to label as “crazy” in order to send them to a “funny farm” or “re-education camp”.

Following is just two parts of Dr. Fraser’s letter to Senator Bayh which deal with SENIOR CITIZEN ISSUES.

*****
My source for HR3200 is from the energycommerce website. The link is http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf.

Dear Senator Bayh,

As a practicing physician, I have major concerns with the
health care bill (HR 3200) before Congress. I spent the
last week reading this bill, which at over 1000 pages is
quite difficult to get through. Have you read it? I'm
shocked by the brazenness of the government's intrusion into
the patient-physician relationship. I'm especially
concerned about the creation of a central committee to
decide medical coverage decisions.

*****

SECTION 1233 ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION (pages
424-431)

Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Government provides approved
list of end of life resources. Government MANDATES program for orders for end of life every 5 years. The Government decides it should be involved in end of life care.

Page 428 Lines 17-25: Additional advanced care planning consultations
will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.

Page 429 Lines 1-3: "advanced care consultation" may
include an ORDER for end of life plans.

Page 429 Lines 13-25: The Government will specify which Doctors or other individuals can write an end of life order.

Page 431-2 The Government mandates that "quality measures on end of life care" be measured and reported.

*****
Obama and other promoters of the health care reform bill claim that there is nothing in the bill to cause alarm and that critics of the bill are spreading disinformation. Really? Doctor Fraser is citing sections, paragraphs, and sentences of the bill. Obama is giving “talking points”. Which one is more likely to be spreading disinformation?

I challenge you to read the bill or at least Doctor Fraser’s letter. Then, decide for yourself. Do you trust Obama or Doctor Fraser?

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For more health care articles by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net or www.woodrowwilcox.com.

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Written on August 18, 2009 by
Woodrow Wilcox

Citizen Action Rejecting Obamacare at Town Hall meeting in Maryland

2009-08-18T16:46:00.004-04:00

Elaine of Seniors Care published this video and blog about her concerns about the big government changes to health care in Obama care. She has a poll and petition up.
http://seniorscare.blogspot.com/2009/08/hagerstown-md-town-hall-with-senator.html
Check it out.

Citizen's Town Hall Recess Rally

2009-08-11T01:22:00.004-04:00

Our Recess Rally event will take place August 22, at Gerry Connolly's Annandale office. 4115 Annandale Road, Suite 103 Annandale, VA 22003 at Noon to 2 pm.
Citizens will be posing their questions to Congressman Connolly in absentia.
We will deliver the questions to the Congressman and provide a sampling on the
internet. Special guests to be announced. This is a vital event and we need many
people to show that Americans will not tolerate big government interference in health care.

Details to follow. Opt in to receive the latest information.

Example of Citizen Action - Read the Bills Senator

2009-08-04T20:19:00.005-04:00

Here is a great video that EmyTheImmigrant Blog turned me onto. Outraged citizens react to 8/04/2009
Senator Arlen Specter's flimsy explanation of why he can't actually read the bills that he votes on, but its OK, he says that he does not vote on anything until he understands it. Huh? It sounds a bit like the second grader's explanation when he is busted for hiding piles of his homework in his closet.

This is a teachable moment.

What's the hurry? Afraid people might read the bills themselves and find out how really bad the bill is for American health care. Ya, that must be it.
Several town hall meetings are scheduled in the next month or so in Northern Virginia, maybe you and me can make a difference at one or two.

Senator Webb Staff Member Tries to Explain Why Senators Don't Read the Bills they Vote for

2009-07-28T13:43:00.006-04:00

This video was caught on my cell phone video camera at the July 17 protest at Senator Webb's Arlington, Virginia Office. I still don't get it after I heard it so I watched it again, I still don't get it.

17 of July Protest against Government-Run HealthCare

2009-07-16T01:05:00.003-04:00

Noon to 1pm on Friday the 17th of July

Senator Jim Webb's Arlington Office
1501 Lee Highway, suite 130
Arlington, VA

No speakers, no agenda, just bring signs and protest

4th of July Bull Run Tea Party Last Minute Details

2009-07-03T20:11:00.003-04:00

If you RSVPed after midnight 07/03/09 you will not be receiving a confirmation email because we did not have time to key them, but please come anyway, you will be on our list.

Please check in with us at the Northern Virginia Tea Party Tea Party table after you have checked in at the Leadership Institute sign in table. We will have information for you there.

Please bring a tea party related sign with a simple message about Cap and Trade or Socialized medicine or other tax/spending/debt. Signs on stakes are OK.

We will be mustering on the open field for a demonstration after the official speaking program has concluded. Our demonstration start time will be around 2:30-3pm. Our flier will have more complete information at the event.

Terrific Response

2009-06-28T18:31:00.002-04:00

We are having a terrific response to our Independence Day event so please bear with us as we catch up and respond to your inquiries. Invitations will be sent out in time for the event. An invitation is not required to get in but it gets you a discount on the out of region entry fee if you live outside the parks region. (See side bar for more info.) Otherwise the event is entirely free.

Bring a couple of extra signs if you can to share, and keep the message simple about taxes, spending, borrowing or regulation.

More to come...

What is REALLY coming America.

2009-05-28T21:13:00.004-04:00

Great to see so many at the Tea Party, a bit damp wasn't it! The rain may have kept a lot of people away but the fact so many did turn up in the appalling conditions speaks to the depth of concern by the people.

Concerned you should be reader. With all due respect, if you have not lived in a Socialist society you really do not know what is coming at you. You will only find out after the fact, how Socialism is an insidious plague which will under mine your basic principals of every day life.

How is it I can make this statement? because I have lived the Socialist nightmare in England where I grew up. I moved here to the USA twenty four years ago to get away from the gathering storm clouds of a Socialist England and now here it comes to America.
I was very fortunate in that I have dual nationality, so I could come and go as I pleased.

I have never in my life openly protested anything. On the contrary I have been in 'The Thin Blue Line' between the protesters and common sense. I have served as a Police Constable in London in the mid seventies and as a Deputy Sheriff here in Northen Virginia until 12/27/07 when i was unceremoniously not reappointed by the 'good ole boy' Sheriff of Fauquier County.

My brief Resume is to tell you, the reader that I am SO worried about the future here in the USA that I am compelled to act.

If you allow it the Government will become such a massive part of your everday life. Take a look at the Brit press on line. Study the articles that highlight how insane life has become for the average person in England. Do you know there are 'Garbage Police'!! yep, local authorities appoint inspectors to travel ahead of the garbage trucks to check that garbage containers are positioned on the sidewalk excatly as designated by the authority and that the lids of the containers are not open so as to allow flies in. If a bin is found to be not in the exact spot and/or with the top open even an inch a $100 fine is issued to the home owner on the spot!! How insane is that?

The National Health system is a shambles. DO NOT get sick in England, it may well be some time before you get to see a doctor depending on your malady.

I could go on and on. My point is, this big government coupled with the move to Socialsim is, in my humble opinion the worst thing to happen to America since the Civil War. This time the devastation will be total.

Do not be complacent people. Keep in contact with like minded people. Voice your opinion, talk to friends, work associates 'keep the kettle boiling'. If we don't we will only have ourselves to blame when we can no longer be free as we were five months ago.

The worst is yet to come.

Harry Explains Why He is Protesting at Merrifield Post Office in the Driving Rain.

2009-05-16T21:12:00.005-04:00

Northern Virginia Tea Parties experienced larger than expected numbers at their events at Merrilfield Post Office and at Baron Cameron Park. this is stunning in light of the day long downpour and the the fact that the Reston event had to be moved at the very last moment. There was a certain sternness that the protesters at Merrifield displayed in realization that the Federal Government spending had to held in check or America will be a much poorer country in the coming years. America's Tea Party Movement is vital element in the restoration of common sense to America's governance.

Tea Party Protester Harry speaks out why he stands in the pouring rain protesting.

Tax Day Tea Party After Action Reports

2009-04-23T09:30:00.002-04:00

Check out the after action report in the Blue Ridge Forum. They report on the Northern Virginia Tax Day Tea Parties and others around the Virginia. Many thanks to all who participated in the Reston and Merrifield events.
http://blueridgeforum.com/?p=331

Merrifield Tax Day Tea Party Protesters Brave Dounpour to Reject Out of Control Goventment Spending

2009-04-18T18:58:00.005-04:00

Protesters lined both sides of Lee highway at the Merrifield Post Office rejecting the mad money borrowing and spending of the Obama Administration.

Report on Merrifield tax Day Tea Party

2009-04-15T23:13:00.004-04:00

According to organizers of the Northern Virginia Tax Day Tea Party, the event was attended by over 350 citizens who are outraged by the mad money spending by the Federal government by the Democrat controlled Congress under the Bush and Obama Administrations. They lined both sides of Lee highway in front of the postal complex. The demonstrators stood firm despite being battered by the continuous heavy rainfall, many dressed in rain wear and still needing an umbrella. The demonstrators spent over two and a half hours in the down pour holding signs like "US Out of GM" and "Stop the Mad Money Spending," chanting STOP (left side of road) SPENDING. Organizers were only expecting 25 people, but to their surprise 350 showed uup despite the heavy downpour and unfavorable location (inconvenient parking). the heavy turnout is evidence of the strong feelings of the general public about the level and direction of Federal spending. The event was not without comic relief, however, two lonely counter protesters sported a sign that said, "I (heart) Titties." Which they explained as their feeling that women were under represented in Congress. Not sure whether they got their point across.

Update Merrifield Tax Day Tea Party

2009-04-13T01:31:00.003-04:00

Greetings Fellow Patriots:

We will be meeting for the Merrifild Post Office Tax Day Tea Party at the area marked demonstration area A at 4:30pm, other areas are for the contingency of a large crowd, please park at the Merrifield Plaza on Gallows Road and walk over. Wear sturdy shoes as we will be standing on the grass. You will not be able to park near the post office. please make your own appropriate Tax Day Tea Party hand held sign. Suggestions below, short and big is better. Do not carry your sign on a stake. Please exercise great caution when crossing the streets as the traffic in that area will be heavy. I need two volunteers to act as marshals, please respond by reply to this email.

After the event, we are encouraging attendance at the Reston Tea Party Wrap Up Event, details on the website: http://northernvirginiateaparty.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your patriotic participation in shaping America's future.

More information to follow.

Ron Wilcox
Organizer
Northern Virginia Tea Party

Sign Slogans:
Deposit Stimulus Check Here
US out of GM
US out of Citi

You can’t spend your way out of debt.
Yes we can – stop the bailouts!
Money doesn’t grow on trees, some of us work for it.
Bailouts + Debt = fiscal child abuse
Stop Spending, Start Cutting
Why don’t you cut my taxes instead?
Promote responsibility, no more bailouts!
Stop rewarding failure.
Save the children – stop spending their money
Give me liberty or give me debt.
Who will bail out the government?
I will not pay for someone else’s house.
I don’t want your debt.
Stop punishing success.
You can’t multiply wealth by dividing it.
Redistribution just means less for everyone.
Your pork broke my piggy bank
We the people want our money back
Socialism – not the change we need!
No bailouts.
FreedomWorks – Bailouts Hurt
Freedom – A stimulus we can afford
Let the Failures Fail
>From each according to the IRS....to Pelosi, Reid, and ACORN.

(Signs shaped like Tea cups): "We are TEA'd Off" "Tax Revolt is Brewing", "America Steeped in DEBT"

Carter Isn't the worst President Anymore
Beef us up Don't Pork Us Out
Spread my work ethic, not my wealth
TAR. Feathers. Washington. Now!
Congress, Stop Stealing From Our Children!

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Merrifield and Reston Tea Parties Working Together

2009-04-05T15:36:00.002-04:00

The organizers of two of the Northern Virginia Tea Parties are working together to maximize the impact of both the Merrifield Post Office Tea Party Protest and the Reston Tea Party Rally end day wrap up! The times of these are likely to be shifted for maximum impact. Check back soon for details.

Conservatives Clarion Call to Action

2009-04-02T02:02:00.002-04:00

American patriot Rick Santelli called for massive a taxpayer of the "Chicago Tea Party revolt against outrageous spending by the Federal Government. And a movemetn was sparked. He stands on the shoulders of the founding fathers for his brave opposition to the powers that be. The Boston Tea party was a pivotal moment in American history, kindling the revolution that brought this nation freedom. I am so pleased that Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich of America's Solutions has also heard the call and is standing with the taxpayer tea parties form sea to shining sea. Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity has been very helpful in getting the word out to his listeners.

In the words of Ronald Reagan, "If you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Our rallies across America will make President Obama and the Democratic Congress feel the political heat.

Don't wait for leadership to organize a tea party near you, organize one yourself by getting your friends and neighbors informed and involved.

See you at the next Tea Party!

Ron Wilcox
Organizer
Northern Virginia Tea Party

Slogans for Signs at the Rally

2009-04-01T00:14:00.002-04:00

OK the 15th is fast coming on us. We need to come up with some really cool slogans for posters to carry at the rally. Please respond with a comment to this post with your very best ideas.

To get the ball rolling:

Bailouts are Welfare for the Rich.

Keep the Govt out of our Boardrooms.

No Loans From China

OK, lets see who can come up with the best idea.

Northern Virginia Tea Party

2009-03-30T13:56:00.005-04:00

Spread the word about our Tax Payer Revolt Tea Party! We have gained steam with our facebook group and opt-in email list reaching 22 in size since Friday. Post a link to this website if you can Our facebook event link is http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72987558085#/event.php?eid=60624589595.

How the bailouts really work.

2009-03-28T11:39:00.001-04:00

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2009-03-26T19:32:00.001-04:00

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