Comments on: From Saturday’s Public Forum with Niki Tsongas

By: christian

christian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:40:43 +0000

By Tthe way I do agree in reform Thank You so much for being our Voice, Congress women Nickie Tsongas.

By: christian

christian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:37:27 +0000

Hi Congress Women Nickie Tsongas, I am an independent contractor for a large commercial home improvement company.I had this question for you.If the home improvement company’s are making what profit I would have made to pay for health care and bennifits for any help I have. Who would be responsible for myself and people I would be doing buisness with.I would not be able to afford this at the present time. I would have to go out of buisness.The large buisnesses also say how much you are going to charge the man hours, having to wear their shirts ,have their sighns and sighn there contracts under duress, that you are a independent contractor. My point is I am really an hourly worker. they have control of the whole buisness.( Low,s Home Improvements Sears , Home Depote , Temp services , Part time help in industry.

By: Fitzpatrick

Fitzpatrick — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:30:26 +0000

I had wanted to attend but wasn’t able to attend Tsongas’ discussion on health care. Thanks for your description-it reminds me of a simlar situation in my town recently where a proposal that seemed like a good idea and seemed certain to pass was undermined by an angry and loud minority who managed to alarm and scare people. They too manufactured misinformation saying that only they and not the voluntary committee was telling them the truth. Some members of this small group attended informational meetings, and angrily accused the members of the committee, who volunteered their time, of having ulterior motives. And so I saw the tide turn against this proposal even though the proposal had seemed like a no brainer from the beginning.
What I learned was that people who aren’t involved and don’t keep up on what’s happening politically, locally or otherwise, fall prey to the misinformation and fears manufactured by people who have an ulterior motive. In this way the few, the loud, and the motivated (though they won’t honestly tell you what motivates them) will assert their agenda. We all need to stay informed and not let others feed us information and brain wash us into making bad decisions. There are no shortcuts to demoncracy. It looks like I need to get involved in this health care issue, rather than sitting on the side lines and complaining about the loud, angry minority. What can my husband and I do?

By: Lin Huhn

Lin Huhn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:45:29 +0000

The reality is that those shutting down discussion are those who advocate the proposals without explaining their content. The substance of which you speak can only be found in the bills’ wording and not the rhetoric from either side. Read it, please

By: Michael D. Miller, MD

Michael D. Miller, MD — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:45:12 +0000

Amy – Thanks for the great 1st hand account of the event. Having read the media reports it helps to have a more personal perspective. It’s clear that the messaging campaign has gone completely into the world of misinformation – although I find it ironic that the critics originally started out bashing the public plan option as “leading to a government run single payer system,” or as a “government take-over of healthcare,” and now have crossed into a strategy of just shouting down and shutting down discussion – with little connection to any substance. I think this reflects the reality that the issue of health reform is now more about national politics than good or bad policy.

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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:28:14 +0000

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By: Lin Huhn

Lin Huhn — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:43:09 +0000

I find it interesting that those who are for reform as it is presently proposed in congress never quote the bills themselves. If the people opposed to the plan pass out materials that do, you call them names. There is no “information” in the above report that would help anyone decide anything, and nothing that the President or congress has said in public is at all illuminating. If you wish to know what the left has in mind for you, READ THE PROPOSALS. They are very scary. Telling people they will not be negatively impacted by the bill does not make it so. Consider reading the bills yourself and defending them line by line. I believe you will find it hard to do.

By: lovable liberal

lovable liberal — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:29:04 +0000

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