By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
 Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. |
Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an "Emergency House Call on Congress" to stop the House from passing the Democrats' health-care bill this week.
A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.,
and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting
outside the Capitol at 12 p.m. to protest the health-care bill set to
hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a
vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday.
Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and "pay an emergency House call to Congress."
"This is the most effective way we have to kill socialized medicine
and to do it this week," she said. "Nothing is more effective at
reaching a congressman than having a citizen come to Washington, D.C. –
not asking for a handout, not asking for tax money, not asking to take
some liberty away from somebody else, but just asking for freedom."
She said the American people spoke loud and clear this summer, telling Congress they don't want "cradle-to-grave takeover of health care." According to Rasmussen Reports,
a full 54 percent of voters are now opposed to the House version of
health-care reform. Only 23 percent of all voters strongly support the
plan while nearly twice as many, or 44 percent, expressed strong
opposition.
"We saw tea parties. We saw the 9/12 movement where literally
hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more, all converged on the
Capitol on a Saturday. People did this to get the attention of their
members of Congress," Bachmann said. "This is the week when the
decision will be made about whether we will choose liberty or tyranny,
whether we will choose socialized medicine or a free market."
Actor John Voight and "Liberty and Tyranny"
author Mark Levin have volunteered to come and speak at the event. Dr.
Betsy McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and senior fellow
at the Hudson Institute, will speak as well.
Bachmann cited a study by William Boyes, an economics professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, who estimated in July that the federal government has taken ownership or control of one-third of the private economy.
"Now if President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid
are successful with this health bill, then that would be an additional
18 percent of the private economy the government would own or control,"
she said. "With more than 50 percent of the private economy controlled
by the government, you can no longer say with a straight face that
we're a free-market, capitalist system."
She noted that Pelosi has pledged to give the public only three
days to review the legislation, a timeframe she called a "tremendous
insult to the American people."
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