Human interest story, here.

Here's a story in the Strib that commenter Lady directed us to.

It's about this woman who runs a bakery with 65 employees, in St. Cloud (Bachmann's district.) She's a person of faith. She joined about five hundred other faith-based activists to go and push health care reform to Minnesota members of Congress, in D.C.

But guess what happens at the end of the story? The responses she gets from Minnesota legislators are "non-committal," including the response from the representative for her district--Michele Bachmann, who sells herself to the public as a "faith-based" legislator.

The part about Bachmann is at the very end of the story, and it's not much--because Bachmann apparently did not have much to say to these Catholics, Lutherans, etc. But the story is a very interesting read, anyway.

And another interesting thing *about* the story--is that this article about Christian efforts to get MN politicians to support real health care reform appeared in the "Faith and Values" section of the Star Tribune. And it was supplied to the Strib by a writer for "the Religion News Service," not a Strib staff reporter.

So a news reporting service that covers faith and values spotted a grassroots Christian attempt at supporting national health care reform as a "faith issue." The five hundred people of faith also believe that supporting national health care for all Americans is a "faith issue." Does Michele Bachmann think that making sure all Americans have affordable health care is a "faith issue?" All is it says in the article is that her response was "non-committal."

We do know that she supports the private sector health insurers, and takes quite a bit of dough from them, despite the fact that tens of millions of Americans have no health care plan when health care is left to these private sector insurers. And we do know that the private sector health insurers have spent over a half-billion dollars during the past decade, just for lobbying Congress. And it is likely that that half-billion of profit they spent on lobbying Congress, might have been put to better use subsidizing preventive health care for Americans who've lost their health care plans during the various economic downturns.

But if the private sector health care insurers had spent that half-billion on doing that, politicians like Bachmann would not have received the special interest money that makes their campaigns "go."

Question: how Jesus have spent the half-billion? On lobbying Congress to prevent health care reform, or on the preventive health care for American families that lost their health care plans during the economic downturn?