What’s the Matter with Fortuna?
The Tea Party protests are principally organized by two lobbyist-run groups: Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. Freedom Works is run by corporate lobbyist Dick Armey whose firm lobbies for life insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies. Armey is, of course, lobbying against health care reform and insurance regulation as are all the lobbyists behind these two groups. These groups supply the Tea Party-ists with ideas for signs and press releases and much more. Most importantly, they recruit people who don’t know they are being recruited and they convince them that health reform is a bad idea. They’ve created a series of lies that incorporate what I call “hot flash” words such as euthanasia, abortion, socialism, loss of control, etc.
The health industry is waging an all out war against change; they have a lot to lose. The head of Cigna earned over $12 million last year. There are six lobbyists for every member of Congress and they are threatening Congress people and/or buying them. The health industry is spending $1.4 million/day on lobbying to defeat reform. If the proposed ideas for health reform are so bad why are they running scared?
We Americans need to start educating ourselves. We need to stop believing anything that has an American flag flying behind it. Health care reform is a critical necessity and we need an educated public to make good choices. We don’t need the emotionally charged and manipulative nonsense being fed by the conservatives to the public.
Sylvia De Rooy, Westhaven
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Comment / By hankhallmeyer / Sept. 12, 2009, 11:47 a.m.
Fortuna PD is corrupt period. I know I witness it and the Town is as friendly as a starving tazmanian devil. Expect grow house busts very soon very soon.