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Protests continue as healthcare comes up for a vote
Published: 16 March, 2010, 23:59
Edited: 12 June, 2010, 04:34
A demonstration organized in opposition to the healthcare reform bill in Washington, DC on March 16, 2010 (AFP Photo / Jewel Samad)
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Members of the Tea Party returned to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to make a final push against US President Barack Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul.
As the US Congress prepares for a final vote on President Barack Obama’s massive healthcare overhaul, members of the Tea Party movement are back protesting on Capitol Hill. As lawmakers inside the Capitol pushed hard to get the final votes for the bill to pass, outside protestors were fighting their own battles.
Although many Americans are fed up with insurance companies making record profits and raising premiums for care, some Tea Partiers think that getting paid for your own hard work is what being American is all about.
Many brought petitions and letters to their congressional representatives and others who might be wavering on their vote.
“Unless we put our foot down and draw a line in the sand, we’re not gonna have any sand to draw a line in. The government’s just going to take it over,” said protester Jim Griffin.
Even if Congress approves the bill, the protestors say they aren’t going away.
“The Congressmen that vote yes, we will protest them, the protest will continue. We’ll protest their vote at their offices, in their districts. We’ll protest their vote at their events in their districts. We’re not going to stop protesting,” said Debbie Dooley, national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots.
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Gov't officials in the USA make their money from lobbyists, not the people. Protesting doesn't do a thing anymore. The American media doesn't even cover the protests. I don't expect the USA to stand for anything admirable anymore unless the people figure out a way to eradicate the fascist corporatism that has taken over the country. It may very well take some help from the other superpowers.
Cobra, Nobody wants the socialism-communism from the past but if you take the healthcare system from socialism, (from your native country from the east) and blend it with the liberties which have swept the World in the past 20 years, (excluding evil America because it has gone backwards), that is the way forward for the humanity. America is living in the Stone Age as far as the health care of its citizens is concerned.
Plumber breaks his arm in the UK. He is never able to get medical attention that he needs because of RATIONING. Google Torron Eeles and tell me what good "humanity" is when your only remaining doctors are muslim immigrants that commit terrorism. What good is there in giving 50 million people health care and when you're loosing doctors? Tell me what right do you have to take other peoples freedoms away for your own selfish needs. You think you're moving to the front of the line but you're going to left wondering why you're still at the back of the line for the rest of your life. You can keep your so called humanity.