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Your neighbors need to hear from you today or tomorrow at the latest.
Welcome back, subscribers to the Empathy Surplus Network USA Substack. We all have an email list of friends. If you live in a MAGA state or congressional district, your local friends need to hear from you, calling them to engage their MAGA congressman to vote no on the MAGA murder bill. Here’s what I sent to 300 of my email list, who live in my red MAGA county. I included my elected officials. I used the BCC function. Feel free to use it as a template.
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To: My Clinton County friends, Commissioners, and Wilmington City Council
Greetings, friends,
I wish you and your family all the best. I am committed to promoting the protection and empowerment of diverse communities of nurturing families that care for one another's human rights and freedoms - communities like ours. I know you are, too.
But I'm sad, which is why I'm writing. Because today, Senators Husted and Moreno voted for a federal budget bill that will demoralize, impoverish, sicken, and kill our neighbors in Ohio and throughout America. I'm sad because our Senators don't believe in our founding documents, which declare, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." They have sided with a few hundred billionaires instead of us, their wealth-creating people. Husted and Moreno have stepped away from our founders who wrote, "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
What's at stake
You and I protect and empower our public revenue, Medicaid dollars, 25 percent of all Ohio neighbors, and the same percentage in Indiana and Kentucky. Most of those Medicaid funds house and feed our grandparents in nursing homes, and a whopping half of all births are covered by Medicaid. You and I feed through our commonwealth public revenue funding SNAP 11% of all of our Ohio neighbors, 9% in Indiana, and 13% in Kentucky.
However, Husted and Moreno have chosen an immoral path and decided to steal those funds and give them to a few hundred billionaires.
If their MAGA murder plan succeeds, according to the Senate Finance Committee, 51,000 US residents will die each year, not counting the 45,000 US residents who already die each year because health care is not a human right in the USA, and they had no insurance. The MAGA senator's actions are immoral.
One out of four nursing homes is expected to close, and 300 rural hospitals are projected to close, if the MAGA murder bill passes in the US House. In their place, they plan to build for-profit concentration camps like Allegator Allacatraz. The MAGA senator's actions are immoral.
There's still hope to reverse this immoral legislation.
I am a prisoner of hope, which is why I am writing. I hope you are, too. The MAGA murder bill now has to go back to the US House, and despite what you might think of Congressman Dave Taylor's promotion of this impoverishing, sickening, and murderous bill, he's still a human being, whose human rights and freedoms I am committed to defend. That said, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 29.1, human rights and freedom advocates have "duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of (their) personality is possible." Article 1 says, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
Most importantly, Article 30 of the UDHR states that "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein."
MAGA representatives are abusing and violating our human rights. So, I hope you will join me and engage Congressman Dave Taylor and DEMAND that he stop abusing and violating our human rights and vote NO on the MAGA murder bill. We're not free if we don't have enough hospitals. We're not free if we don't have enough nursing homes.
I know it's a long shot, because Congressman Taylor wrote me recently and emphasized it in bold italics, as I did above, "I was proud to join my fellow House Republicans as we passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 215 - 214 on May 22, 2025."
He's proud that thousands of Ohioans will die, when he should be ashamed. I hope you will engage him.
He's proud that Ohio hospitals will close, when he should be ashamed. I hope you'll be able to engage him.
He's proud that one out of four nursing homes (they all have waiting lists) will close, when he should be ashamed. I hope you'll be able to engage him.
Consider using Resistbot. Time is short. Act now.
Resistbot will send an email or fax directly to Congressman Taylor. He and his staff read them. Text the word "resist" to 50409 to get started. Taylor needs to hear from all of us, especially elected officials. Our elected officials probably thought they were doing a good thing when they elected these MAGA representatives. However, I am convinced that many MAGA voters didn't realize their hospitals and nursing homes were going to be shut down so a few hundred billionaires could buy another f--king yacht.
Thanks for reading. I hope your July 4th holiday is excellent and you and your family are safe. Here's a link to a dramatic reading of our US Declaration of Independence. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, act on the trust they built against tyrants and write to Congressman Dave Taylor today or tomorrow, because they will vote quickly. Peace and love.