Date: Saturday, March 13
When: Line-up 10:30
Where: Palombi School, 131 McKinley Ave, Lake Villa

Come One Come All and Help Joe Celebrate St. Patrick and a Good Cause!!!!!!!!!!

Join us in your glamour and green to walk and help fill the rainbow caboose with canned or packaged food for the Lake Villa Township Food Pantry.

The parade will take off at noon marching from Kevin to Wesley to Walden to Burnett to Sherwood to Grand to Cedar with the finale at the train station.
Make sure to stick around after the parade for the lunch! They will be serving cornbeef and cabage for $7.50 or a hot dog plate for $4.00.

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(LAKE ZURICH, IL)– Rep. Melissa Bean’s stubborn refusal to reject the federal government takeover of our health care system will cost the average 8th district resident $3,900, so says a study on the proposed Obamacare legislation by the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI).   IPI Study

According to IPI, “As part of the total bill, the net present value of all additional federal government expenditures through 2019 that will occur as a result of the current health care proposal is $1.2 trillion, or a $3,900 bill for every person in the U.S.”

“The government takeover of health care will not only worsen the quality of care and decimate small businesses, it will bankrupt our nation,” said Joe Walsh, Republican Congressional nominee for the 8th District referring to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The CBO puts the federal debt at more than $20 trillion by the year 2020, in part as a result of Obama’s plan to increase federal spending by another $2.3 trillion over the next ten years after already more than doubling the nation’s debt in just his first year in office.

“The bottom line: we cannot afford Obamacare and cannot afford Melissa Bean in Congress,” said Walsh.

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From Joe Walsh visit with the Palatine Tea Party Rally at the Palatine Public Library:

(LAKE ZURICH, IL)– Today, Republican Congressional nominee Joe Walsh called on his opponent, three-term incumbent Melissa Bean, to learn from her Illinois Democrat colleague Dan Lipinski and vote “NO” on Obamacare.

Illinois U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, a Democrat who represents the 3rd district, has joined the ranks of other Congressional Democrats displaying the courage to vote with their conscience– not their party.

This is all the more significant considering Lipinski has a 90% liberal rating from Americans for Democratic Action highlighting the fact that Lipinski normally votes in lockstep with his party’s left-wing leadership.

Not this time.

“The health care bill is not about party but policy,” said Walsh. “It is about promoting policies that improve the quality of care for families and lessen the tax burdens on small businesses. The Obamacare does just the opposite on both counts.”

Walsh noted that, according to a study by the Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois stands to lose 169,000 jobs if the Obamacare bill is enacted.

In contrast to Lipinski, Bean has been one of the President’s most loyal followers on his proposed federal government takeover of health care, meeting with the administration as recently as yesterday to discuss how to get the necessary votes in the House.

“The only good news from the proposed Obamacare legislation is that Melissa Bean has been exposed for who she really is,” Walsh said. “She is not the independent Democrat she pretends to be. She is little more than a knee-jerk roll call vote for the current administration’s big government agenda.”

(Lake Zurich, Illinois) - 8th District Republican congressional nominee Joe Walsh today called on his liberal Democrat opponent Rep. Melissa Bean to swallow her pride and vote “No” on the Obamacare federal takeover of health care legislation nearing a vote in the House.

“For the first time in a long time Melissa Bean needs to listen to her constituents and vote her district,” said Walsh. “A government takeover of health care is absolutely the wrong approach to fix what ails with health care in America- and 8th district voters know it. Melissa Bean was not elected to represent public sector unions and march in lockstep with her party. She was elected to represent the interests of 8th district families and support policies that speak to their very real economic insecurities. This legislation will worsen the quality of care we have access to and increase unemployment,” Walsh said.

The proposed takeover of health care that would cost Illinois 169,000 jobs, $4,418 per person, and shrink Illinois’ economy by 5.1 percent, according to a study by the Illinois Policy Institute . This is against the backdrop of a state with 11% unemployment.

“A vote for this health care bill is vote against the economic interests of 8th district families, plain and simple,” Walsh added.

The legislation would also drastically reduce senior citizens’ access to the popular (and private) Medicaid Advantage program.

“I’m not in the camp that says the president is overly ambitious to take on health care,” said Bean, who voted for the federal takeover of health care late last year that passed the House by a slim 220-215 margin despite a sizable Democrat majority.

Prior to her vote last year, Bean, unlike most members of Congress (Republicans and Democrats), declined to hold any town hall meetings or public forums where residents could weigh in and ask questions about this legislation.

“Melissa Bean has made it very clear that if she is not interested in the opinions of concerns of those she was elected to represent,” said Walsh.

In his keynote address to the McHenry Medical Society at their annual meeting, Walsh said there is no way the country can afford the trillion dollar takeover of one-sixth of our nation’s economy.

“There are other ways to reform health care without sending our children and grandchildren into even greater debt and forever altering the doctor-patient relationship,” Walsh said.

Walsh said incremental reforms such as allow the sale of insurance plans across state lines increase competition among insurers and passing meaningful tort reform are key to reducing costs while protecting quality of care.