Patty Murray wants your suggestions for deficit reduction

[eridani]

http://murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/deficit-reduction#friends

Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
What Do YOU Think?

Dear Friends:Over the next few months, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will need to find a balanced approach to addressing our debt and deficit, growing our economy, and putting American’s back to work. As Co-Chair of this bipartisan commission, I am going to be working hard to bring members together around a bipartisan plan that works for families in Washington state. But I also I know that we have a difficult challenge in front of us and that we need to marshal every idea and resource we can to complete this difficult task. That’s why I want to hear from you.

Please use this form to submit your new, innovative, and most importantly – practical – approaches that could be implemented by the Joint Select Committee to help move our country in the right direction.

At this critical time for our country your involvement is important to ensuring that we can find common ground solutions that work for real families.

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

NOTE: This form is designed specifically for Washingtonians to submit serious ideas to help reduce the deficit. We reserve the right to dismiss any submissions containing obscene or inappropriate language.

[eridani]

1. Another petition link

Friends - I just signed on to a petition to be delivered to: The Washington State House,

The Washington State Senate, Governor Christine Gregoire, The United States House

of Representatives, The United States Senate and President Barack Obama



I hope you will consider signing on to this petition by clicking on the link below.

A group of us plan to hand deliver the petition and signatures to the Seattle office of Senator Patty Murray on October 6th.

She as co-chair of the Deficit Reduction Super Committee is in a position to greatly influence the work of that committee.



The content of the petition is as follows:



"Every person deserves the human dignity of medical care in time of
need. Quality Health Care is a Basic Human Right and not a
privilege."

The necessity of controlling costs associated with the delivery of
health care can save over $400 billion per year equaling more than $4
trillion in ten years.

The financing of health care through the private for profit insurance
model has not only failed to deliver care to all, it has escalated
associated costs through artificially accelerating administrative
costs at every level by raising premiums, imposing restrictive
regulations and punitively reducing payments to providers and
patients.

Furthermore, this is an opportunity to expand the most
administratively successful health care program in America today,
namely, Medicare, to improve it to include areas of health not
formerly covered and to reform some aspects (such as parts C and D) to
provide immediate cost-savings.

The Debt Reduction Committee should:
1. Expand and improve Medicare for everyone within the next four (4)
years

2. Ask Congress to pass a bill declaring with every other developed
nation that health care is a basic human right.

Will you sign this petition? Click here: http://signon.org/sign/quality-health-care-is?source=c.em.cp&r_by=1218783

Thanks!
Jean

[eridani]

2. Petition to the Supercongress from labor newsletter The Stand.

http://act.aflcio.org/c/261/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2945

[rhett o rick]

3. I think Patty is going to sell us down the river. I hope not but it looks like it. nm

[rsmith6621]

4. How About Pay Congress What They Pay The Military

...that would be a start and how about stand strong on a Robin Hood tax...... But yes I think Patty has already punched our ticket.

[Turbineguy]

5. Sent in some ideas

got a form letter back.