How can this be legal?



http://www.upworthy.com/can-somebody-please-explain-how-this-isnt-illegal?c=ufb1




http://www.upworthy.com/can-somebody-please-explain-how-this-isnt-illegal?c=ufb1

THIS IS WHAT MOVE TO AMEND IS ALL ABOUT!
                                                                                                                                 
Please take 7 minutes to check it out! It's going to take most all of us to do this?





https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cpkRvc-s
                                                                                                 
If you agree, please send this along to your Face Book Frfiends!

I don’t think it is too late for our government to be saved from within, via Move To Amend.

This is how to find out about our National Move To Amend:
https://movetoamend.org/

This is how to find out about our local Duluth Area Move To Amend:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DuluthAreaMTA/

Contrary to Russel Brand, I have never not voted, but this cynicism is where we are headed if we can’t accomplish this much faster than many believe is possible. This must happen. It must happen soon!

“We are all activists. Those who march in the streets are no more “activist” than those who sit on their……………………………… hands. Those who sit on their hands are “activists” for nothing to change. Once we know something, we cannot unknow it! It is a burden that we all share”. - Alice Hoffman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxFJ5nL9gg

THIS IS WHAT MOVE TO AMEND IS ALL ABOUT!
This is what Move To Amend is all about.

Please take 7 minutes to check it out! It's going to take most all of us to do this? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cpkRvc-sOKk

If you agree, please send this along to your Face Book Friends!

Please put this on your calendar. I plan to attend using my new hip and I plan to bring my Therapy Dog, Chamie. I hope we get a chance to see you there. This evnt is attempting to address several areas of corporate abuse. See you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/335818459885368/379205328880014/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

Thanks for all of the kind comments.  I know it can be pretty dry stuff but it is very important that "we the people" get our government back to focusing on the people.  Mega-Corporations are not people!  Mega-Corporate money is not free speech!  We do not have to accept the "Citizens United" ruling from our, very divided, Supreme Court.  The Constitution has been amended 27 times before.  It can be amended again! http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/280456/group/Budgeteer/

Here’s an idea!
Join us at the Dubh Linn Irish Pub, in Duluth, at 7:00 to 8:30 for our Duluth Area Move To Amend monthly meeting.
WHEN? Today, Thursday, October 17th, 2013
GUEST SPEAKER – John Gilbert, from the John Gilbert Show. It’s a show that is on KDAL, 610 am from 9 to noon each week day. John is a talk show host who loves to talk but he is also a great listener and a kind, thoughtful person. In other words, he is not your typical talk show host!
Tom Starkey, local activist, will share organizing information with us.
Virg Boehland will detail the state Move To Amend Strategy for our Duluth chapter.
We will end the meeting with a toast to our good friend, Laird Monahan. Some of us attended the memorial service/get together for Laird this past Sunday. Some may have an additional toast of good luck as I have my right hip joint replaced tomorrow. Some may have lots of toasts! I'm not encouraging drinking and driving here! I think J can drive my car!
Here is a short video, less than 10 minutes, about Laird, and his brother, Robin. Would you do a favor and watch this video? I’ve never asked that of anyone, on any of my social media sites. Some will find it boring. I found it inspiring . This is something you can do to help take back our government from the circus you have witnessed over the past days and weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfnKfufeNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfnKfufeNI

"We the people" has a spokesperson.
I dare you to listen to our spokesperson!

https://www.upworthy.com/a-senator-gets-mad-about-the-shutdown-and-starts-naming-names-about-time?c=upw1

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the right person at the right time!
She will be our next president!

Charles and David Koch, the oil industry tycoons, have thrown their financial weight behind the right-wing Tea Party extremists who forced the government to close. In Senate speeches, Bernie tied the shutdown to the Kochs and other billionaires bankrolling the attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act. The New York Times echoed Bernie's point in a Sunday exposé on how the Koch brothers "have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort." But defunding the health care law is just the beginning. They also support a right-wing extremist agenda to undo virtually every major piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years to protect the middle class, the elderly, the sick, and the poor.

This image perfectly encapsulates the current government shutdown, in which a fringe band of GOP representatives in the House have effectively held the federal government hostage (with the help of the GOP's spineless leadership).

However, this image also perfectly encapsulates, unintentionally, the extent to which our elected officials truly represent America's citizenry today. For as mainstream pundits yap about which monuments might close, the wealth gap between those who have, and those who have not, is larger than it's ever been.  

http://s3.moveon.org/images/with_dims/eno

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It's important to remember why Republicans, Democrats, and Independents pretty much agreed that the system that health insurance corporations had developed was not working. That system:
1. Was the number one reason that individuals in America went bankrupt …64% of all bankruptcies were related to individuals not being able to pay for their own care even though they had insurance, poor insurance, or because the insurance companies would raise their premiums beyond their ability to pay.
2. Did not cover millions of children who were born with pre-existing conditions. Those children were left to live a life of poverty as there was no way they could ever cover the costs of their medical care alone.
3. Did not allow for working Americans to freely transfer from one job to another for fear that their insurance company would drop them due to having developed a pre-existing condition. Pregnant women, in particular, were afraid to switch employers as their pregnancy would be seen, legally, by their insurance company, as a pre-existing condition. 
4. Required millions of American individuals and their families, to conduct fund raisers and conduct benefit auctions, and benefit concerts, and benefit meals, in order to cover the expenses for necessary medical care. This at a time when that was absolutely the last thing those individuals and families should have been thinking about. Often the families had to continue their efforts to raise money after their loved one had passed away.
5. Allowed insurance companies to offer such poor products that those insurance plans were, pretty much, in name only. The insurance companies were offering coverage that had so many loopholes, and exclusions, that individuals had to hire lawyers in order to actually get the insurance coverage they thought they had purchased.
6. Required that the only way for some Americans to get medical care was to do so through the most expensive method on Earth, the American Emergency Room. Every person could get care but emergency room doctors were covering things that could have been taken care of in a much less expensive clinic.
7. Was designed around "after the fact" care when it has been proven that "preventative care" is the most cost effective method of delivering medical care.

There will be problems with the Affordable Health Care Act, Obmacare , but, we shouldn't forget why Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, had been working on this issue, for decades, without being able to get anything solved.

OK, REPUBLICANS, YOUR TEA PARTY HAS SPOKEN!

You have your marching orders, and you have the financing of the Koch Brother's $100,000 +++ club, along with Citizen's United in place to allow the funneling of billions and billions of added money into our negative advertising machine. Your Tea Party, the Koch Brothers, have already test marketed your message in Ohio. Now stay on message:
1. The Affordable Health Care Act should always be referred to as Obamacare. Do not mention Mitt Romney's, nor the Heritage Center's, nor leading Republican's, involvement in this socialistic effort. Republican involvement in this requirement for every American to purchase health care from private insurance companies never happened.
2. Your president is a lazy, communist who wants to destroy the American Economy.
3. Your president will negotiate with blood thirsty terrorists in Iran, Syria, and he will even negotiate with the Russians, but he won't negotiate with all of the fine upstanding, extreme right, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives.
4. No, the extreme right of the Republican Party is not insane even though the definition for insanity is to "do the same thing over, and over, expecting different results." Even though the extreme right of the Republican Party has done this over and over 42 times, even though the Tea Party's current position to do whatever it takes to repeal what was passed by both houses of congress, signed into law by President Obama, and upheld by a very conservative Supreme Court, even though it is the law of the land, let's do the same thing for a 43rd time. It was the DEMOCRATS who forced this government shutdown! We are not insane. Stick to message.
5. Go to Fox, Hannity, & Rush Limbaugh for further marching orders. Don't listen to anything else. The extreme Right of the Republican Party is not insane. We had nothing to do with Obama Care ( Good, now keep calling it ObamaCare, we even have some of them using our terminology, can you believe that!). Stay on message!