BIGGEST MOVE TO SOCIALISM IN US HISTORY! The Big National HealthScare Vote Nov. 21 (Larry and Erich Pratt reside in DC)
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, will be as important a day as any in our lifetimes in determining whether the anti-gun health care bill moves forward.
So says Larry and Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America, who are available to be your Talk Show guest on the topic of National Healthcare.
The Pratts say the key vote will be on shutting down a Republican filibuster of the ObamaCare bill, HR 3590. And in the Senate, we are faced with a health care bill that:
* Costs $2.5 trillion during its first ten years of full implementation (2014-2023);
* Increases insurance premiums and imposes $376 billion in tax increases -- many on the middle class; and
* Cuts Medicare by $465 billion, while increasing health costs by over $100 billion.
Larry Pratt stated, “Fox News has just reported that the word "tax" appears 183 times in the health care bill. Is Obama serious? Is that what he and Reid want to do to us in the midst of a recession? Of course, all this increased spending -- and taxes -- means that you will have less money to spend on pursuing your real passions: like providing for your family and purchasing guns and ammunition!”
Erich Pratt contends that the strategy in the Senate is to cram this bill down the American people's throats before we have a chance to fully read and evaluate it. And the vote on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. will determine whether, at least initially, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be able to get away with this.
Gun Owners of America has already gone into several states represented by key Democrats who will be central to the Saturday vote, objecting to mandates in the legislation that will most likely dump private gun-related health data into a government database that was created in section 13001 of the stimulus bill. This includes any firearms-related information doctor can glean from gun owners... or any determination of PTSD, or something similar, that can preclude a U.S. citizen from owning firearms!
“But wait, Erich Pratt says, “it gets worse! The special ‘wellness and prevention’ programs (inserted by Section 1001 of the bill as part of a new Section 2717 in the Public Health Services Act) would allow the government to offer lower premiums to employers who bribe their employees to live healthier lifestyles -- and nothing within the bill would prohibit rabidly anti-gun HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from decreeing that ‘no guns’ is somehow healthier.
GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA’S CALL TO ACTION: Call your two U.S. Senators. Please urge them to vote against "cloture" on the "motion to proceed" to HR 3590.
You can call your Senators toll-free at 1-877-762-8762 or 202-224-3121. The phones are ringing off the hook right now on Capitol Hill. You will likely have to try several times because the circuits have been overloaded. Don't be discouraged... keep calling!
Also, ask your wife, your relatives, your neighbors, your church -- everyone, short of your dog -- to do the same. This is crunch time!
----- TALKING POINTS -----
1) Support the filibuster of HR 3590 by voting NO on cloture.
2) Socialized health care is too expensive. I would rather spend my money the way I want to spend it!
3) Increasing my taxes during a recession is insane.
4) This bill will threaten to register me as a gun owner, because the mandates in this bill will force my medical information into the database that was created by the stimulus bill.
5) Vote NO on this bill!
For an interview on this historic healthcare bill, call Special Guests today for an interview with Larry Pratt, or the GOA Communications Director, Erich Pratt.
ABOUT ERICH PRATT…
Erich Pratt is Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America. Shortly after getting an MA from Regent University in Public Policy, he went to work for GOA where he has been employed since 1990. GOA is a national membership organization of 350,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms.
GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington, DC and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA’s work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency. Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC, CNN and Fox Cable News. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country.
In addition to authoring a book, Bearing Arms: Our Rights, Our Duties & Our Freedom, in 1991, he is the author of a forthcoming civil government textbook, The Constitutional Recipe for Freedom: Twelve Principles of Liberty Today’s Politicians Don’t Want You to Know. Erich Pratt and his wife, Stacy, have ten children.
ABOUT YOUR EXPERT GUEST, LARRY PRATT:
Larry Pratt has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 30 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear arms. GOA lobbies for the pro-gun position in Washington and is involved in firearm issues in the states. GOA’s work includes providing legal assistance to those involved in lawsuits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the federal firearms law enforcement agency. Pratt has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs such as NBC’s Today Show, CBS’ Good Morning America, CNN’s Crossfire and Larry King Live, Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Phil Donahue and Dan Abrams show and many others. Larry Pratt has debated Congressmen James Traficant, Jr. (D-OH), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Vice President Al Gore, among others. Larry’s columns have appeared in newspapers across the country. Pratt published a book, Armed People Victorious, in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution & Militias, 1995. Pratt’s latest book is “On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense of Liberty.” Pratt has held elective office in the state legislature of Virginia, serving in the House of Delegates.