Bad Deeds for 8-25-2009

Real Anti-Cap and Trade Grassroots Were Evicted From Energy Citizens Rally in Houston – The Energy Citizens’ rallies are really energy company picnics. The Houston rally was attended ONLY by energy company employees and retirees (at least that’s the way they wanted it). It’s no big surprise that a few rabble-rousing enviros were kicked out, but when even those that oppose cap and trade were turned away– that should raise major red flags about the true nature of these events. Watch the video at the link of people who were throw out of the rally because they didn’t work for an energy company.

Don’t Get Sick in Texas – From 2004 to 2007, employer-sponsored insurance for Texans, age 19-64, fell 2.6% (four times the national average) while the number of uninsured in this age group rose 1.2% (six times the national average).

If You Don’t Speak Up, It’s a Bad Deed – Congressman Pete Olson will have a health care town hall meeting on Saturday in La Marque. Here are a few questions that might interest Olson:

1. Why should the tax payers pay for your socialized health care plan? Why don’t you find and pay for your health care like everyone else does?

2. Under your socialized health care, your pre-existing condition (heart pacemaker) will continue to be covered even if you change health plans. Why do you refuse to fight for that same right for your own constituents?

3. Why should the tax payers pay for socialized health care for the 2 million federal employees, many who work in your district? If we can’t afford to cover all Americans, then let the federal employees pay for their own insurance.

4. What happened to the Christian compassion that should be reaching out to those who are sick and need help?

If you can’t make it to La Marque, or even if you can, sign the petition standing with President Obama for Health Care Reform today and this petition urging Congress to enact real reform and create a public option.

Burning the Future: Coal in America – This award-winning movie examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal’s extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.

Regards,

Jim