My Sincerest Thank You

Dear Friends,

Thank you. Thank you all for working so hard to get this health care bill passed today.  I take it personally, and I will never forget your contributions to an issue that so deeply affects me personally.

As many of you know, this bill was essential to me, even though it appears that it actually won't help me directly much, if at all. Read more about me, personally, here.

My late father would have made this comment:  No one ever invites a camel into the tent.  The camel's only opportunity comes when he gets his own nose under the tent flap.  When he does, everyone scatters and the camel takes his place in the tent.

The folks who put this particular tent up need to be herded out of there.  The work has only begun!  This isn't the bill any of us had hoped for, but we do now have our noses beneath the tent flap.

We are on our way, but we MUST stay strategically and deeply engaged in this issue if we are to change the fabric of this nation to what it aspires to be.

For us to make our way to a single payer system that covers EVERYONE, we also pave the way to the truest and greatest freedoms this country has to offer: economic freedom.

So long as we remove health care from employment, we singularly eliminate the most detrimental issue facing businesses and individuals in America today.  MORE

By covering everyone for virtually everything, it will cost less to save more lives and eliminate the vast majority of fraud related to health care, as well as the cost to fight that fraud.  MORE  And to quote Representative Sam Farr (D) of California, "...emancipate people into the workforce!"  A powerful comment.

Only when all the rest is considered, can we make way to the actual moral argument.  MORE

And, yes, I'm with you.  I would rather be in debt over health care than war.  But we don't need to be in debt over this.  At all.  We are paying way more now than we need to.  MORE

But you know all this.  And I know you're tired, as am I.  I looked back over the last 7 months and have figured that I have:  sent in excess of 4000 emails; sent more than 1000 tweets; sent more than 1000 faxes; sent 33 snail-mail letters; and left more than 1000 phone messages.

And I've blogged a little.  I know you have too.

Please.  Take a moment's breath and then please, double-down with me and let's make our way forward for what we really need.

I start Friday night, the 26th, as I meet with a promising candidate for my Congressman, Brian Baird's seat that he's not even trying to recapture.

Join me, will you?  We can all be tired together.  But if we're lucky, we can really make this right - as in absolutely everyone gets covered, for anything, and it skyrockets our economy for having done so the right way.

Yay Us!!