Don't Go Quietly

Health care reform is taking center stage in Washington DC and we can not afford to remain quiet. Americans have waited long enough for a national health care system. Finally, Single Payer is on the table thanx to Dennis Kucinich, he has steeped up to the plate and a house committee recently approved his amendment that would allow states to adopt Single Payer.

Now that Single Payer has made it to the 'potential' legislative agenda Americans must speak up. Health care is worth a couple minutes to send an email to your Senators and Representatives . I would ask that you join with me in petitioning our "leaders" to deliver us a health care system that will protect Americans from medical bankruptcy's and insure the health and welfare of our citizens, we need Single Payer. Tonight I will email two friends asking them to not only contact their Senators and Representative asking them to support Single Payer, but also if they would ask two of their friends to do the same.

I would like to leave you with the words of Frederick Douglass;

"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions, yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."