So, you going to let Obamacare spend YOUR property tax monies? Ask your Selectmen, Mayor, City Councilors - I did! - Granite Grok

So, you going to let Obamacare spend YOUR property tax monies? Ask your Selectmen, Mayor, City Councilors – I did!

Given that this is happening in the Schools and the libraries, I decided to start asking “What’s going on in MY town”?  Certainly, I cannot go and ask you all, ‘Grok Readers, to do something that I wouldn’t do myself:

From: Skip
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 10:52 PM
To: <redacted>
Subject: Gilford Library to become an insurance sales office / Obamacare info kiosk?

Gus Benevides, Kevin Hayes, John O’Brien   (my selectmen)

Good evening, gentlemen!

I am rather skeptical that the Town of Gilford has allocated any funds for a line item such as “Librarian Obamacare Outreach” or I’m not thinking that any funds alloted for professional development would cover training in the 2,700 pages of the Obamacare bill nor the 20,000 pages (+) of resulting regulations in order to be such a resource to the general public:

To wit:   http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/06/28/librarians-being-recruited-to-promoteobamacare-n1630099

The nation’s librarians will be recruited to help people get signed up for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Up to 17,000 U.S. libraries will be part of the effort to get information and crucial computer time to the millions of uninsured Americans who need to get coverage under the law.

The undertaking will be announced Sunday in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Library Association, according to federal officials who released the information early to The Associated Press.

Libraries equipped with public computers and Internet access already serve as a bridge across the digital divide, so it made sense to get them involved, said Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Is it the case that Gilford Library staff will have their time taken up with this activity?

Kindest regards,

-Skip

Yeah, I have been told that I’m a pain in the butt, but such is life.  Yes, go ask YOUR local officials and let us know here at the ‘Grok!

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