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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Party of "NO"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Did Republican delays of health care reform help kill 8 Milpitas residents in the past six months? President Obama publicly stated his plan to pass a bill through Congress by the end of August. Unfortunately, Republicans are still stalling the process with procedural maneuvers and filibusters. During that time, approximately 23,000 people died due to lack of health care insurance - more than the roughly 20,000 people who died in motor vehicle crashes. So, whenever the Post reports a Milpitas auto death, also think about the death of someone without health care.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Folks who are tight financially - and who isn't these days? - tend to put off visiting the doctor when something is wrong with their bodies. All too often, that delay leads to worse problems and death. If Milpitas gets its full share of those extra deaths, we lost 8 neighbors over the last six months.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Back in July 2009, Republican strategy and objective were succinctly stated by South Carolina Senator Jim Demint: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Republicans are seen as obstructionists, as the Party of "NO", because they worked to earn the labels.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I believe that most registered Republicans in Milpitas and across the country would reject a strategy to "break" the President. So, isn't it time for some of my fellow residents who are truly conservative to publicly repudiate the strategy and tactics of the Congressional Republicans? As we have heard, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." So far, evil seems to be winning.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rob Means</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1421 Yellowstone Avenue</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es-mx"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Milpitas, CA 95035-6913</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es-mx"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">408-262-0420 rob.means@electric-bikes.com</FONT></SPAN></P>
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