An open letter to the St. Louis Tea Party:
> My name is Leon Weinstein. I immigrated to the US from the former Soviet
> Union. I already experienced the Universal Healthcare, equality in housing
> and distribution of wealth the socialist style. I remember chronic deficit
> of every imaginable product, long lines for services, obnoxious salespeople
> (yes, you probably can’t even imagine that) and “communal apartments” where
> in a 4-bedroom flat lived four families using one bath, kitchen and shower.
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> It all started innocently. Our grandparents were told that everyone
> deserves equal healthcare. They agreed. Then that each and every person has
> a right to work. They agreed. Then that we can’t allow Soviet citizens to go
> to bed hungry. They agreed. Then that there are some people who receive much
> more than they needed, and others who had nothing. At that point no one
> asked them if they are erady to share . The government was already not
> asking but informing and ordering. The commissars (you call them “tsars”)
> took over and the Politburo began to channel their commands through them.
> Our grandparents gave in step by step, inch by inch. When they were told
> that they shall be merciful and since they were not doing enough voluntarily
> the government will take their money and confiscate their property and will
> give it to those in need, they already didn’t have any means of resisting.
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> We, the People in the USSR were put in prisons for even saying something
> against the government, even if we would whisper it into our friends’ ears
> in our own kitchens. In the USSR you never knew who among your friends
> working for the secret police. He or she was probably doing it because they
> were saving their own skin or their children, or sometimes because they
> liked to be able to hurt others.
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> The Universal Healthcare in the US is one of the steps that can lead to the
> creation of the United Socialist States of America. It should be stopped. It
> should be stopped now and by you and me. We, the productive citizens of
> America will be outnumbered by those who get freebies from the government
> when the comprehensive healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform,
> comprehensive energy reform, comprehensive job reform and other
> comprehensive moves to fundamentally change America will be accomplished. I
> do not want to be forced to stand on the street with my right hand up
> yelling “Hail to Obama!” Actually I do not want to be forced to do anything.
> America was the only country in the world where individual was more
> important than the group. America was the only country where you were able
> to pursue your own happiness and be free to make your own decisions. WAS.
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> If I worked all my life and saved money for a surgery my mother needs, I do
> not want the government to tell me that she is not a productive citizen
> anymore and the money will be used to perform surgery on a young and
> productive person. I understand that for the country it is better if the
> young guy will get the treatment. But it is my mom we are talking about!
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> If you want the government to decide who will be treated with your money,
> be happy, Obama is your guy. If you want to decide who will get your monies
> worth of medicine and help, then I propose to go on the “Atlas Shrugged”
> strike.
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> The White House says that they want to have the final vote on the
> healthcare on March 18. They hope Stupak and others will sell their souls
> for money and will allow taxpayers funded abortions in exchange for personal
> rewards. They probably know something about members of the US congress that
> we hoped was not true.
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> What if all productive citizens of this country will go on strike on April
> 30, day before the May Day? We the Producers of everything in America will
> stop for one day what we are doing. We will not open our stores, will not
> provide services (except emergency), will not do, produce, act, serve,
> invent, fly… will stay for one day at home and do what we please.
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> What do you think about it? Is it a strike? Are you with me? Ayn Rand would
> be proud of us. Lenin, Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, Obama, Carter, Castro,
> Shaves and others would not.
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> Hail to America! Hail to the freest country in the world!
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> Leon Weinstein
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