People With Disabilities Storm House Building, Demand Boehner Leave Obamacare Alone

[madamesilverspurs]

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Inside, dozen of others in the group went directly to Boehner's office and tried to enter in order to talk to his staff, to no avail. After being outside his office for about an hour, they began taking laps around the hallways, singing about "taking back my dignity" and "taking back my humanity." Many held signs with Boehner's face next to images of people in wheelchairs breaking free of chains on their wrists.

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A Boehner spokeswoman declined to comment on the protesters. Instead, she pointed to statements Boehner has made in the past couple days about the Senate needing to "listen to the American people" and delay Obamacare when it passes the government-funding bill.

--- read the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/boehner-obamacare-protest_n_4017367.html

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[Cha]

1. Good for them.. if anytime ever called for Activism against Teabaggists..

It's NOW!

thanks madame~

[gopiscrap]

2. Excellent

[Scuba]

3. Thank you protesters!!!

[treestar]

4. Good sign!

Orangeman needs humanity.

[sheshe2]

5. Excellent!

[Lobo27]

6. What makes me sad...

Is that the GoP has essentially brainwashed a lot of the people who would benefit from the ACA. Nothing like not having insurance, and being poor but opposing all the things that would help you live a better life. SOME BULL SHIT.

[NBachers]

7. No Sleep For the Boehner!

[hansberrym]

8. Except for that mandate thingy, it would a great law.

From PPACA:
"The requirement regulates activity that is commercial and economic in nature: economic and financial decisions about how and when health care is paid for, and when health insurance is purchased." H.R. 3590 Subtitle F, sec. 1501 B



Why on earth does anyone support Congressional regulation of our econiomic decsions?

[ZRT2209]

13. "Free rider" and "risk pool" - go look up those two concepts

[Admiral Loinpresser]

21. "Neoliberalism" and "New Deal" -- go look up those two concepts.

The mandate was written by the health care industry. It's awful. It's bad for me because I'm poor and live in a red state.

Having said that, I hope the ACA succeeds within its limitations. Right now, the crazy GOP is the big issue. Then later we can work on getting the "neo" out of "liberalism."

[Daniel537]

28. "Free rider" is a derogatory phrase used by the right to demean the poor.

Democrats should have never taken up usage of it when advocating for the health care law, since it made those of us without insurance sound like leeches.

[Squinch]

18. Oh, Lord. Are you serious?

[Admiral Loinpresser]

22. I am serious as a heart attack.

And I can't afford any plan under ACA, much less actually utilize it, or get a reasonable plan which would make something like an actual heart attack non-catastrophic in financial terms.

[Squinch]

23. Your concern is noted.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

24. Your empathy is noted.

Now let's get Boehner!

#OccupyCongress

https://www.facebook.com/events/220773094754847/220796178085872/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

[Daniel537]

29. Do you know if you qualify for Medicaid?

Here in Florida, i would qualify for Medicaid starting next year, but due to our right-wing legislature I, and nearly a million others, will probably be left out in the cold.

[IrishAyes]

31. I read something about the governor pushing the legislature to throw a monkey wrench in the works.

Resulting in something like a 2-year delay on a technicality. How do those beasts expect to be re-elected after Floridians have had to watch the rest of the nation leap forward and leave them behind? They're counting on brain dead voters remaining senseless. Yet if that sleeping giant ever awakens, there'll be hell to pay.

[IrishAyes]

32. A sweeping social change of this depth requires 'that mandate thingy' to work.

Everyone has to be involved and included for the numbers to crunch. No man is an island.

[IrishAyes]

9. Great OP! Great occasion.

This, people, is the sound of good America rising up!

[Admiral Loinpresser]

25. Here's what everyone can do:

start or participate in an Occupy Congress group in your local community. Better yet, go to the Capitol building and ask to see Boehner. Seriously. #OccupyCongress

https://www.facebook.com/events/220773094754847/220796178085872/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

[IrishAyes]

26. Thank you; that's sure to help many people.

Unfortunately I'm marooned in a tiny MidWest town I call RedNeckLand, and there's no way for me to get out of state, much less to DC. But I do maintain heavy email contact and sign every petition I can get my hands on.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

27. Here is something else you can do:

Go to this link and join this FB page. I am trying to get direct action started in Lawrence, Kansas and every time anyone (even from out of town), joins this group it adds momentum. Occupy Wall Street was minIscule when it started, but before two months had passed it had created thousands of new activists, gave us a new vocabulary and changed the terms of the debate on wealth inequality. If we act collectively we can take back our country. And THANK YOU!!!!! #OccupyCongress

https://www.facebook.com/groups/598378870213114/

[IrishAyes]

30. I admit I've neglected the Occupy movement lately, partly because there's so little I can do

because of where I retired and lack of funds. But I appreciate your suggestion and will be happy to oblige. There won't be any slingshot effect from my page, though, because I um, have 2 personas for different purposes - both legit - and I don't allow any outside posting on one, and on the other I only accepted one friend. When I used to be more open, it took far too much maintenance time and I didn't appreciate the tone of some entries. But rather than quit entirely, I just went mostly dark.

I'm not going to mention either FB ID here, but I will follow the link you provided in a day or two at the most. I have a close friend in the Occupy movement, and he has nothing but the best to say about it. It's such a shame that some infiltrators have tried to bring it down by extremely disreputable behavior, but I know that happens in any movement. I trust you guys have a pretty good handle on that by now.

Anyway, wishing you all the best.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Recommended.

[Marie Marie]

11. Good for them. Too bad the Republicans are probably all drunk by now and

care even less about the plight of anybody but their own re-elections.

[lonestarnot]

12. Wish I was there.

[SoapBox]

14. Bravo

And I'm sure he really cared...ya right.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. K&R! More Americans need to do this!

[deurbano]

16. Yay, ADAPT! (The protestors are from ADAPT.)

My daughter began protesting with ADAPT when she was in middle school:

http://www.adapt.org



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[KamaAina]

20. Awesome!

Maybe I met her a couple of years ago.

[IrishAyes]

33. When I was growing up, back in the stone age

I don't think handicap access crossed the mind of many people at all. But now it would be unthinkable to build things any other way. Besides, I'll tell you, those sloping curbs at street corners are a boon also to the elderly who must be very careful of their footing.

There's one group of activists I highly admire in Malibu. They plaster stickers on the car of a certain A-list (A for ass) actress who counts on her celebrity to protect her vile habit of parking in handicap spaces. She gets the law called on her a lot, and her car has been towed. I'd love to see her slapped in jail for it.

[rhett o rick]

17. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[malaise]

19. Wonderful

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