D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h

Three provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act will expire on December 31. Committees in both the House and Senate have approved renewal bills, but the House version includes much stronger civil liberties protections.

Let’s tell Congress to pass the House version, or pass nothing at all and let these provisions expire using our “I am not afraid” campaign. https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/77

Here are my personal comments which you may copy or borrow from . . .

Specifically, please allow the following provisions of the Patriot Act to sunset on December 31:

* The Records Provision
* The Roving Wiretaps Provision
* The Lone Wolf Provision

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D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h

Senate leaders are starting to panic over the prospects for their cancerous healthcare bill. They can’t seem to find the votes they need. The main problem seems to be the so-called “public option” — a complex scheme that would create a tax-funded government health insurance company. Senate leaders are proposing to remove this objection by . . .

Creating a different kind of public option. Brilliant!

But it gets worse. Their clever new public option scheme is the already-existing public option — Medicare and Medicaid. Problem is, both of these programs face bankruptcy, which can only be avoided by cutting benefits to patients and/or payments to doctors.

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By Chuck Baldwin

Chuck Baldwin

Now it’s Barack Obama’s war. After campaigning against “George Bush’s War” in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America’s forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different from that of his “conservative” Republican predecessor.

While I was crisscrossing America during the campaign season last year, I repeatedly predicted that no matter who won the White House, John McCain or Barack Obama, neither would end the war in the Middle East. Many Democrats tried to argue with me, saying they knew Obama would end the war. Now they know I told the truth.

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D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h

REAL ID is scheduled to go into effect on January 1. The good news is that it may be repealed by then. The bad news is that it may be replaced by something worse, the PASS ID.

Please tell Congress to repeal REAL ID and reject the PASS ID.

This is what I wrote in my letter . . .

REAL ID has proved to be unworkable and unwanted.
36 states will not be in compliance with REAL ID by the January 1 deadline
Fifteen states have passed statutes prohibiting it, and another ten have passed resolutions denouncing it. http://realnightmare.org/news/105/

If REAL ID is not repealed,
Countless numbers of Americans will not be able to fly without a passport – even for domestic flights!

Or they will be forced to go through secondary screenings http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48756954-bingaman-udall-on-real-id-pass-id

I insist that you take immediate steps to repeal the REAL ID Act.
Don’t rely on the Homeland Security Secretary to issue extensions or waivers for the states

Don’t replace REAL ID with the PASS ID.

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Let the Lunacy Begin…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession” until more Americans are back at work.

I hope it works better than that stimulus program that looted our children and grandchildren to the tune of $800 billion dollars, with double digit unemployment to show for it.

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The CBO may need to revise this chart… I believe they underestimated the federal deficit…