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You've no doubt seen Speaker Pelosi's "final" House bill.  The vote is scheduled for THIS Friday.  That's why I'm asking you to take three key actions.

1)  This Thursday join our "Congressional House Call" day.  It's easy.  Just go to your closest House or Senate local office at 12 Noon your time to make sure they hear your voice one last time before the House vote.  To find your closest office and to let us know you will take a stand Click Here.

2)  Tonight, 11/2, at 8:00 PM EST we're holding a national tele-town hall meeting with two key leaders in the House -- Mike Pence (IN) and Paul Ryan (WI) -- to provide you with details on the "Congressional House Call" and to give us a brief update. They will also answer as many of your questions as possible on where things stand on the health care battle with just days to go before the House vote.

Here's how you can join - Call 1- 888-356-3090 and enter the extension 13536 when prompted.

3) Ask your friends and family to also join the "Congressional House Call" by forwarding this email to your contact list or Click Here and we can send the email for you.  Many of you tell me you've consistently contacted your member of Congress and Senators.  Keep doing it!  But, let's get your friends and family involved for freedom as well.

Our goal with the "Congressional House Call" day is simple:  get as many grassroots activists as possible to deliver our "Hands Off My Health Care" message at local offices just before the House vote. 

By clicking this link - http://americansforprosperity.org/nov5 - you will have the closest congressional office location detailed for you and you can even print off materials to deliver to the congressional office.  Speaker Pelosi and President Obama really believe our side is tired of the health care battle.  They believe time is on their side. 

We've got to show them they're wrong.  Join the "Congressional House Call" day this Thursday by going to your member's district office this Thursday at 12 Noon your time.  Take pictures of your visit and send them to me at TimPhillips@afp-mail.com or post them on my Facebook by clicking here.

If you cannot go in person use the link to call your member of the House and Senate at 12 Noon this Thursday and tell them you're making a "Congressional House Call" by phone. 

We're at a crucial time in this health care battle.  Please take action!

On Thursday, Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the most dramatic and costly healthcare bill in the history of this country. Instead of moderating the proposals after months of mounting opposition from the American public, the final bill amounts to an ultimatum.

The new tactic by the Administration and Congress is alarming. As they watch public support continue to plunge, desperation has lead to the so-called “nuclear option”. With a 70 vote majority in the House, the leadership has decided to force the legislation through regardless of the economic, social, and political costs. It is now or never in the short-sighted world of the ruling elite.

The legislation, which the Wall Street Journal has called “The Worst Bill Ever,” relies on a bloated spending scheme estimated at $1.055 trillion over the next decade according to the Congressional Budget Office. That doesn’t even count the more than $200 billion that will be needed to shore up reimbursements for doctors and hospitals. With the final version of the bill coming in at 1,990 pages- that’s roughly $2.2 million per word. Those are just the numbers.

The bureaucracy that will be created by this bill relies on taxing a 5.4-percent surcharge on joint-filers earning over $1 million to raise up to $572 billion for the program. This “tax the rich” mentality looks simple on paper, but the real burden will fall on small businesses that have organized as Subchapter S or limited liability corporations.

Each piece of this legislation creates new spending and higher taxes with nothing more than the hope that there will be a robust economic recovery to bail Washington out. When government subsidies and borrowing dry up, the reality of this massive entitlement will take hold. Then the only two options will be massive tax hikes or systematic funding cuts. Private insurers who have been mandated to offer equal coverage will have to increase premiums across the board; robbing Peter to pay Paul. In the bureaucracy itself, $426 billion worth of future Medicare spending will be “reallocated” to subsidize universal coverage, thereby leaving fewer options for the sick, elderly, and disabled.

Desperate times, it appears call for desperate measures.

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In my Tuesday post, I discussed how government is addicted to gambling with your money. Today, the focus is on why they are addicted. Americans are naturally optimistic. We live in the most prosperous and free country in the world. Of course our economy has its ups and downs, but when examined over generations, the growth has been continuous. Big spenders take this for granted and don’t recognize that runaway congressional spending and ever-expanding bureaucracy threaten the stability we have known for so long.

Centrally-planned solutions are always the same: throw taxpayer money at the problem and increase the government’s role. Pause to consider every new initiative this year: the tools for launching it never change. These new proposals are so alarming because their cost is unprecedented and their scope is universal. From the economy to healthcare to environment, dire emergencies have been exacerbated and urgency has become the new incentive. But these solutions ignore the long-term consequences that future generations will face. Buy now, pay later…hoping that tomorrow will be more prosperous than today. Hoping our children will pay our bills.

Peggy Noonan’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal examines the lack of caution and blinding idealism that exists in this mindset. We continue to beg and borrow in order to fund new programs that (cross your fingers) will pay off. When that is not enough, taxing people and industries that have been successful in spite of these obstacles becomes the solution. Ms. Noonan suggests this is because our contemporary generations have never seen things go dark. “They came of age during the great abundance, circa 1980-2008 (or 1950-2008, take your pick), and they don't have the habit of worry” she says. “[The Left] talk about their ‘concerns’—they're big on that word. But they're not really concerned. They think America is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why not? She laid it in their laps. She laid it in grandpa’s lap.”

Plan for the worst; hope for the best. Washington is only concerned with the second part.

Write to tdoheny@afphq.org

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