by @BarryRafkind in Civic Action, Events, Politics, Uncategorized
Posted on January 19, 2010 at 9:05 am
| January 19, 2010 |
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In this close race, your vote counts more than ever!
Find your polling place here and then go vote while you can before 8pm.
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Barry, as a liberal democrat I must 100% disagree with you. A vote for Coakley is a vote for the same ‘ol, same ;’ol. I think we’re tired of it – we need change.
Vote for Brown or Kennedy. Coakley is useless. Anyone but Coakley!
Regards,
Helen
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A vote for Coakley may be a vote against a conservative Repug, but, unfortunately, it’s also a vote for the Insurance Industry Takeover and Windfall Act.
That legislation will Compel Speech to a private business with no way to opt out (as is the case with auto insurance) except by a) leaving the country, b) depleting income to below the mandate level, or c) dying.
The legislation would force people to pay directly and via taxes (to cover low-income people)for many things that have utterly no Public Interest to justify a mandate. Customers (and tax payers) would be providing revenue for insurers to invest in just about every health-damaging industry on Wall Street…not to mention weapons contractors, big oil, mountaintop removal mining, gas “fracking”, sweatshop operations, union-busting firms and even in businesses that may compete with your own business or investment holdings.
Customers would also be providing revenues for insurers’ lobbying (for legislation you support?) and for political campaigns (for candidates you support?) How this does not violate voting and election rights, if not the idea of democracy itself, is hard to see.
People who do not want to essentially vote for THAT might think of writing in “Nader” or “Any Single Payer Supporter”.
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