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Wanted: Obama healthcare reform volunteers willing to be paid $15 an hour
Los Angeles Times ^
| August 13, 2009
Posted on 08/13/2009 5:31:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 08/13/2009 5:34:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his political supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reforms these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uncovered Americans.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturf; bhohealthcare; bozo; communityorganizer; governmenthealthcare; healthcare; helpwanted; obama; obamacare; protest; townhall
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:31:57 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Canvassers? Aw shucks. I thought they were looking for professionals. For $15 an hour I’d give neurosurgery a try. That may be the going rate in a few years.
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:38:10 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Zakeet
How do you pay volunteers? Have they not become government lobbyist's. How illegal is this?
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:39:14 AM PDT
by
boomop1
To: vrwconspiracist
I’m between jobs.
I have half a mind to infiltrate this mob and let them pay me. LOL
Then again, some think I have a half a mind, period. heh
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:45:07 AM PDT
by
Daisyjane69
(Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:48:50 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(Idiotcracy has arrived 400 years early.)
To: depressed in 06
‘stimulus funds at work’...dig deep enough into Porkulus and you will find where their funding is coming from...should be renamed the Democrat Permanent Empowerment Act.
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:52:08 AM PDT
by
dogcaller
To: Zakeet
We were on a fall driving trip and stayed at a motel somewhere in Missouri just before Clinton’s reelection. There was a bus load of Clinton supporters on their way to something. I wish I had chatted them up, pretended to be for Clinton and learned a little more about what they were doing. The truth is I despised Clinton so much that I could not even smile at these idiots who adored him, much less have a civil conversation with them.
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:53:09 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Zakeet
Is it legal to use stimulus money for this?
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posted on
08/13/2009 5:54:17 AM PDT
by
jersey117
To: Zakeet
If you’re paying them they’re not volunteers, they’re mercenaries.
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posted on
08/13/2009 6:14:05 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/13/2009 6:24:07 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Zakeet
Grass seeds can be grown by other grass plants and spread by the wind to grow new roots. Astroturf has to be bought and its installers paid well.
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posted on
08/13/2009 6:29:07 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
To: HIDEK6
They’re willing to hold a sign but I’ll bet they are no match for a bunch of angry taxpayers.
To: Zakeet
Them’s the grassiest green shoot roots I ever saw.
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posted on
08/13/2009 7:01:18 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Zakeet
The website's large-type headline announces: "Work to Pass Obama's Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it! $10-15 hr!"
It's a web ad on Craigslist: "You can work for change. Join motivated staff around the country working to make change happen. You can make great friends and money along the way. Earn $400-$600 a week."
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posted on
08/13/2009 7:04:35 AM PDT
by
Marguerite
(When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
To: Zakeet
The L.A. Times pulls it's head out long enough to make this observation, and then comes to this conclusion.
So both sides appear to have paid lobbyists in this colossal summertime struggle for public opinion and control of the multi-billions flowing into the nation's burdened healthcare system.
Never was there a more clueless newspaper, read that propagandist to the max.
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posted on
08/13/2009 7:57:09 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Our Founding Fathers were the first birthers: See Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution.)
To: Daisyjane69
Sorry, half a mind means you are way over qualified.
Actually, I was thinking the same thing. :-)
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posted on
08/13/2009 7:57:54 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Daisyjane69; A.A. Cunningham; Abathar; abb; adc; Adder; AFreeBird; agere_contra; AdmSmith; ...
Free-wheelin', civic-minded FReepin FRiends! Here's your chance!
Here's the list of the 50 cities where the Fund for the Public Interest is hiring "volunteers" (at $10-$15 an hour) to "canvass," to "educate and organize" for the ObamaCare deal. So handy! Click to make an application to the city near you:
ONLINE APPLICATION FOR CITIZEN OUTREACH JOB
Even if you don't really want the job "at this time," it's an opportunity to make contact and show them you care. Oh, so deeply care.
But hey: there must be a lot of us (or our kids or grandkids, or out-of-work brother-in-laws) who would be willing to send in an online application and do this. I love educating. I love organizing.
And I can double-dog guarantee you I'd be both "fact-based" and "passionate."
Mwah! on both cheeks, comrade.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:30:48 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Maybe you are better off not having the surgery, but taking the, uh, pain killer." Obama, 6/24/2009)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Interesting the disproportionate number of “college towns” on the list
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:34:49 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Socialism is not a bad word. It is a bad concept.)
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