Feb 24 2010
Archive for February, 2010
Feb 20 2010
Senate Candidate Dr. Art Coday to Speak at FH Lincoln Day Dinner
US Senate Candidate Art Coday, who spoke with several people on Orcas Friday night, will speak at the Lincoln Day Dinner on San Juan Island. Dr. Coday is a physician from Shoreline who had to downsize his business to keep allowing him to see Medicaid and Medicare patients. He did that instead of keeping his practice the same size and going after the wealthier private insured patients.
Dr. Coday also filed a lawsuit that went to the US Supreme Court, challenging the recount that was done with Moveon.org money among others after Dino Rossi won the governor election. He has been fighting for the average citizen for a while.
One thing that people must be aware of is that there are several candidates running for US Senate. If you like a candidate, it is very important that you jump on it and support him financially. That makes them the front runner and more support will come in for them. Check out all of the candidates now, and work to support them right away. With Dr. Coday in town, it is a great chance to get to know what he stands for. Don’t miss the opportunity!
Feb 19 2010
Rise up ye little man! Be little no more!
A letter to the Islands Sounder. Reprinted here…….
A Response to the Response to “Kynch got it right.”
After all we have gone through do we still think that Single-Payer Health Care (SPHC) is a good idea or even viable? Single-Payer means the Federal Government is my Health Care coordinator. Consider:
- 1: Right. Where in the Constitution does the fed get the right to control health care? Article 10 gives it to the States or the People. Why allow the fed to take our right?
2: Competence. Health Care is 1/6th of our economy. Why give the fed that much control? The fed is not competent in doing anything right. Washington is broken, has been. Can the fed stay within a budget? Ha! Can the fed run a business? Amtrak? USPS does not have a chance at balancing a budget. The fed has no competence for running SPHC.
3: The people DO NOT want it. Look at the polls. If the fed and Congressmen like Rick Larson don’t listen to us now, will they listen to us when they have control of our health care rights?
4: Correction. Congressman Rick Larson voted for the Health Care Bill. Look it up. So what part of SPHC does he not like now? He refused to talk to his constituents about health care when he was in Friday Harbor last August. If he is backing off his support of SPHC , he is just trying to save his job. How about getting a congressman in there who knows that his job, from the get go, is to serve us not enslave us.
Constitutional Power to the People. How about some real change! Progressivism and greed destroyed our economy and country in the early 1900’s. After a set back, it has resurged and is again destroying our country and stealing our rights. The last thing we need is another “progressive” politician in Washington, whether a Democrat or a Republican.
Rise up ye little man. Be little no more. Take a stand for right, speak the truth, be bold. Don’t just listen. Be informed, then Act!
Rick Boucher
Eastsound
(Editors Note: My apologies to the strict Constitutionalists. There is no Article 10. The writer references the 10th Amendment to the constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.)
