Text by Sarah Phelan
Groups like Americans for Prosperity want to revive Reagonomics. At the cost of your public health care option.
Just got an email from Americans For Prosperity, which bills itself as “being committed to educating citizens about economic policy and a return of the federal government to its Constitutional limits.” In other words, AFP is yet another right wing pit bull that favors the free-for-all market economic philosophy, which brought us Enron and the subprime mortgage fiasco, in which the rich get richer with minimum accountability and responsibility to the very tax payers that they allegedly champion. Sweet.
And this time, AFP is announcing a National Call Congress Day (Oct. 5), which they claim is necessary, “As Democratic Leaders Continue to Rush Radical Health Care Reform,” as well as rallying folks to the 2009 Defending the American Dream Summit in Arlington, Virginia (see banner above), replete with pix of Ronald Reagan. Lovely.
AFP, which also champions “exposing the ballooning costs of global warming hysteria,” boasts as its current Vice President Ed Frank, a former Bush staffer, who last year described the congressional showdown over off-shore drilling as “a political fight the free-market guys actually can win.”
Hmm. In other words, the folks opposing public health care option are the same folks who supported Palin’s “drill, baby drill” mantra last year? Nice. No wonder APF raked in over $ 5 million in 2007 alone.
Yeah, well it sounds like Oct 5 is a good day to call Congress, and demand a public health care option by telling your local representative the simple truth: including a public health care option is the morally right thing to do. Period.